Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. 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. Set up an award, and show winners.

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Search Engine Optimization Entrepreneur Sites Advertising 96

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

Blogging is an important way to build an audience and also drive SEO traffic. Don’t blog about what you think would be “cool.&# I don’t think that most startup blogs should be about how to build a startup. The new stuff: How do I get started? I was an entrepreneur. What should you blog about?

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Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. 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.

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Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

In the end it will be up to you to figure out what to do. Past Success? The problem with this is that past successes aren’t always relevant to future ones as the methods and environment of the past may no longer apply. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. But don’t over index on brains. FourSquare.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your consulting business and gaining valuable online exposure. You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility.

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Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 69

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. 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. Set up an award, and show winners.

Tips 92

Tips Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising 92

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

In fact, I would say that over the past few years, it has become harder to produce or find events that will attract a good audience. In fact, after several years of trying, Ive instead started relying on my CTO Forum group and private events (like an upcoming wine tasting). He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your consulting business and gaining valuable online exposure. You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility.

Blogging 96

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing Social Network 96

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.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

We caught up with founder and CEO Mike Mothner --who we first interviewed back in 2007 --to catch up with the company, gets some hints and tips on growing a company, the challenges of bootstrapping, and why Wpromote hopes to be buying more companies in the future. So we are looking for clients looking for significant growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your consulting business and gaining valuable online exposure. You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2012

I thought it might be valuable (and fun) to share some of those “mobile surprises” with you: SEO (Search Engine Optimization). There are probably 150-200 different apps for something as simple a “Mortgage Calculator”, yet the 5 apps that show up above the fold (i.e. I bet there is a lot that would surprise you about the mobile world.

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Mobile Search Engine Optimization SEO Startup 82

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your business and gaining valuable online exposure, ultimately bringing in more customers. Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Anchor blog in your domain name.

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Blogging Search Engine Optimization Startup Writing 48

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Ive not found that much use for LinkedIn to help my blogging, but Im starting to think about this. And, I dont like to copy and paste. I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. Im very happy with the time Ive spent building up my LinkedIn network.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Time sure flies when you’re having fun, or building a startup. “The one-day event will bring together leading executives, entrepreneurs and professionals to celebrate this diverse L.A. Especially when video is the 2nd highest SEO traffic builder and YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Matthew spoke to us to give us a better idea of what the company offers and why it was started. 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.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill. Such Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is modern-day snake oil. It does not happen.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

“If You Build It…They Will Come”, may work for historical baseball ghosts, but it’s not a strategy you can rely on when starting an internet company.Driving traffic to your website is a formula that can be reverse engineered. Other than paying for traffic with advertising, there are only so many ways to get people to show up at your door.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

“If You Build It…They Will Come” may work for historical baseball ghosts, but it’s not a strategy you can rely on when starting an internet company. Other than paying for traffic with advertising, there are only so many ways to get people to show up at your door. Make sure you have a sign up process on your site.

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