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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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She actually IS the prototypical entrepreneur. Weddings are a bit like college degrees – they often set you back financially for many years after the event. But Tracy did what entrepreneurs do. One of the many things you become expert at when you launch your own company and have no money is SEO. More on that later.

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Events and Networking in Los Angeles

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, February 23, 2007 Events and Networking in Los Angeles One of the issues I discussed in Innovation and Geography was that the geography and traffic in Los Angeles generally makes it more difficult for networking. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. How did you transition to entrepreneur? This time I'm getting to know Mark Geller ( LinkedIn , @markgeller ). Tell me a bit about your background.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

I feel too many people are discouraging, and as a result, too many entrepreneurs are discouraged and give up. In other words, instead of accepting that “SEO is good,” let's explore what the point of SEO is and when it is actually “good” (that is, promoting a goal). I don’t go to too many official “networking” events.

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

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Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). I actually like finding entrepreneurs who are more circumspect, less braggadocios and generally more planned about their actions. It went down like a lead balloon.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example.

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Interview with Alec Shankman, Gotcast

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Alec Shankman: What eventually happened, is our events became so viral, that people ended up creating profiles to get their family and friends to vote for them, ala Youtube to get these jobs. Instead of people just getting online, it became online contests for certain events. READ MORE>>.

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