Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. (5:00 5:00 – 5:55).

Capital 265

Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

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.). I actually like finding entrepreneurs who are more circumspect, less braggadocios and generally more planned about their actions. That’s fine if entrepreneurs are your target market.

Marketing 380

Marketing Startup Press Technical Advisors 380

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. 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.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

With the estimated 510 million live websites at last year-end, and 280,000 new ones being added every day, the biggest challenge for an entrepreneur is to get found, and get some credibility for a new startup. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 101

Startup Blogging Writing Google 101

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

Our clients are everyone from fast growing, freshly funded startups, to the Fortune 100. We're not the vendor that does SEO, and not the vendor that does paid search, we're their marketing vendor. We forge really strong partnerships with our clients, and we're really an extension of their internal marketing reach of those clients.

Acquisition 100

Acquisition Paid Search El Segundo SEO 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

The new war for platforms has mostly been waged by Andreessen Horowitz who have raised astounding amounts of capital and therefore had the fees to put into providing more services for entrepreneurs. And there is often competition over marketing activities, fund raising ownership and the like.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

million new pages added to the Internet every day, the biggest challenge for every entrepreneur is to get found, and get some credibility for a new startup. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Wordpress entrepreneur startup website blogging business'

Blogging 104

Blogging Product Startup Writing 104

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2016

Back then, it was a much different game, and there was not much of an emphasis on social and more on SEO. million in funding, but ended up burning through it. Before social, with SEO, the average piece of content was about having the right keywords, right backlinks, and the right title, to make sure you got the search traffic.

Media 100

Media Content News SEO 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

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). 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.

Invest 288

Invest Angel Web 2.0 SEO 288

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. After you've done that, and see that it is working, as an entrepreneur, you really start to believe in your product. I did a cold outreach to Kevin, and funny enough, he told me something like SEO would never work.

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Beverly Hills Acquisition 113

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2010

The firm has some funding? Alec Shankman: We raised an initial seed round from a company called NCT, which is a Columbus, Ohio based venture fund. Alec Shankman: We raised an initial seed round from a company called NCT, which is a Columbus, Ohio based venture fund. READ MORE>>.

Hollywood 252

Hollywood Startup Sites SEO 252

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. Market Structure.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

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 am a VC. I hand out money. How differentiated is that?

Marketing 389

Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

How's this new venture funded--and actually, how was ModernMom funded? Another part, in addition to good SEO and social media, and good traffic--is we've also be able to have huge brands since day one, since they trust me and what I'm doing. It's a lot of content, but then again we have lots of sites. I was very lucky.

Networking 230

Networking Social Media Startup Search Engine Optimization 230

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

With the an estimated 150K new websites and 7M new pages added to the Internet every day, the biggest challenge for every entrepreneur is to get found, and get some credibility for a new startup. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Hone your communication skills.

Blogging 93

Blogging Invest Startup Writing 93

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.

Venture Capital 364

Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Bill Fried: I'm a serial entrepreneur. We're self funded as our own angel investor, and we thought based on the numbers in Hawaii it would be a nice sideline. How is the company funded? Billy Fried: It's self funded, and I've invested about $300,000 to date. We're really in the memories business.

Activity 164

Activity Startup Sites Web 164

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.

Incubator 150

Incubator CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Personally, I've been an entrepreneur for 15 years, running companies with P and L responsibility for divisions, and watched with frustration as the Internet has grown up around us. We've also got SEO feed pages. Because we have a large, structured database, we are using SEO to feed content to the search engines.

SEO 100

SEO Advertising Gogii Tech Coast Angels 100

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.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. MYTH 2: Silicon Valley companies will always have the best shot at funding. Matthew has seen hundreds of startups pitch funding though OCTANe’s LaunchPad program. Saudi Arabia uses your gas dollars to fund solar energy Health Cisco helps build first U.S. Featured stories. Enterprise.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Any funding yet? You look at the US and you see passion, you go to Africa and man, Africa is amazing – so many entrepreneurs - the spirit to be successful is strong, there is no feeling sorry for themselves over recession or anything, people want to get on and make a business for themselves and that is the spirit behind ProfileTree.

Advertising 79

Advertising Services Social Network Startup 79