Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. Vanity metrics will make you feel good about site traffic of SEO over conversion rate or purchases of your product will get more attention than retention. So my corollary has always been “doing the right things is more important than doing things right.”

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Well, it’s true that HEAD request provoke only an HTTP response header.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. So many CEO’s just carry on being … CEO’s –> fund raise, get media attention, attend conferences, hire staff, “set direction&# , whatever. Let me give you an example. I love that saying.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Tracy tells us how she bootstrapped her business by renting out both her bedrooms and sleeping on the couch--funding the startup via Airbnb--and is now scaling out the business with a new round of venture capital. I didn't have any funding. I was a painter then, and I started selling all of my paintings to fund RecycledBride.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Thus I recommend that every entrepreneur start blogging in parallel with solution development for the following benefits: Get customer idea feedback before you commit resources. Develop an efficient and effective writing style. Establish visibility and attract funding sources.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

But through expressing points-of-view I can raise above the consciousness of my customers (entrepreneurs and limited partners who invest in VC funds) in ways that I couldn’t without breaking through the noise of the hundreds of others of VCs who also have money. I hand out money. How differentiated is that? Think about Luma Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I have talked extensively about “social proof&# in fund raising in the past. Remember that you’ll be investing against people who have worked on the Google algorithm and REALLY know what drives SEO. This is the second article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. There’s also the opportunity to do some consulting with interested customers to provide needed revenue while the product is still under development. Build your brand and get leads today. Build your credibility with investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. There’s also the opportunity to do some consulting with interested customers to provide needed revenue while the product is still under development. Build your brand and get leads today. Build your credibility with investors.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. We started to dump money into sales and marketing and development so we could scale up. I did a cold outreach to Kevin, and funny enough, he told me something like SEO would never work. I could not be more happy to be working with him.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars. What can they do for funding, where can they go for help? Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 This is something Ive always wondered about.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing. But not doing basic research makes no sense. Market Structure.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I had an enjoyable conversation this morning with a young team straight out of college this morning and they were calling to ask advice on how to approach fund raising (angels vs. VCs, how to select a VC, etc.) SEO marketing vs. social marketing. It’s a bit of all of these. Think of web vs. mobile. Traditional software vs. SaaS.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). And example is lumping your VC funding announcement into a story about major customers wins, product features or key milestones. A funding announcement is a stand-alone event.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. There’s also the opportunity to do some consulting with interested customers to provide needed revenue while the product is still under development. Build your brand and get leads today. Build your credibility with investors.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2015

Los Angeles-based FameBit (www.famebit.com) has developed a new platform which lets any content creator connect with brands, without the need for an agency or MCN, to help them grow their content and network. Once they decide which YouTubers to hire, they can fund that video production. Tell us about FameBit?

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Users can vote for relevancy of results, and over time, the non-relevant information or SEO moves down below the line. How is the company funded? Dan Yomtobian: The company was funded from selling stock in my other company, Findology. That's how I was able to fund and start ABCSearch.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. Fascinating that you are going against the trend of trying to make everything a web application.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Developers. While real estate and tourism continue to be strong economic drivers, there is also a thriving business climate developing life-changing technologies. Skip to secondary content. Newsletters. 11 hrs ago. 20 hrs ago.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Normally, SEO is not cheap, and video is a very affordable way to boost your businesses search engine optimization, and help you to get discovered. How is the company funded? We've also found that online video really helps with search engine optimization. What's your background, and where did the idea for the business come from?

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Sometimes even smart developers do evil things with your URIs. Leave a reply Find related posts in Redirects , URI shortening , Usability , 404grabber , Web development , Social Web , Site-Search Thoughts, findings, notes and opinions on Web development, Web search and SEO - not always serious and sometimes polemic.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

It can’t be funded. It requires too many skills in SEO, audience measurement, platform integrations, CRM, retargeting, a/b testing of titles/thumbnails and development of one’s own platform for CMS and mobile distribution. YouTube aggregation isn’t a business. It has low margins and no sustainability.

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