SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 7, 2009

SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. Normally the product is defined as a web site. Most founders are fairly passionate about the features and functions of the web site, iPhone application, Facebook application, or whatever web application represents the product.

Web 150

Web Sites Email HTML 150

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. Professional user-friendly site design.

Search Engine Optimization 105

Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising SEO 105

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Those services work on volume, and the designs you can send--and which you receive--are from a limited selection, not at all personalized to the recipient, and for the florist delivering the flowers, provides slim margins and no opportunity to build a customer base. It''s sort of an Etsy for flowers. They have to pay for placement.

Beverly Hills 157

Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

When Quora went into Beta and became the “hip product to have access to&# in Silicon Valley I felt compelled to play around with it. The design, albeit not intuitive at first, was beautiful and in weird ways very graceful. And they are trying to bake in user adoption into the design of the product.

Blogging 301

Blogging SEO Startup Writing 301

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. Professional user-friendly site design.

Search Engine Optimization 54

Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising SEO 54

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

One, is we build and design websites. The second, is we provide fulfillment services, such as product shipments. The fifth is product photography--we actually have an in-house photo studio, including doing things like Photoshop and color correction. We have six key categories of what we do.

Venture Capital 113

Venture Capital SEM Commerce Email 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. Professional user-friendly site design.

Search Engine Optimization 96

Search Engine Optimization Entrepreneur Sites Advertising 96

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Mike built a white label product that let large publishers leverage text based ads by building their own marketplace rather than using Ad Words. Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. Do you agree that Google SEO optimized results for high volume search terms are broken? (49:35-51:30).

Capital 265

Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. Market Structure.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Highlight personal and product testimonials. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access.

Tips 92

Tips Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising 92

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” Such Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is modern-day snake oil. Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly. It does not happen.

Custom 164

Custom Customer Advertising SEM 164

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Design a logo ( 99designs ). Pick an internal email system ( Gmail , Outlook ). Choose an email system to connect with customers ( Constant Contact , MailChimp , Sendgrid ). List your products on online marketplaces.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Analysis on viral marketing, user experience, game design, and online ads. Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter.

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Pivoting - Chris Dixon , June 14, 2010 My Hunch cofounders and I frequently ask ourselves: “If we were to start over today, would we build our product the same way we had so far?&# Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175