Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So many CEO’s just carry on being … CEO’s –> fund raise, get media attention, attend conferences, hire staff, “set direction&# , whatever. But this leads to organizational drift because staff will continue to produce “work.&#. Let me give you an example.

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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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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. Tracy DiNunzio: RecycledBride and Tradesy are same of the same company, Recycled Media. I didn't have any funding.

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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

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. You mention social / viral aspects at both Google Photos and United Online. What were those and how is that changing now given how things are changing in social media? I'll be interested to see what it turns into. How did you do that?

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. The fund is organized into sectors and each VC forms forward looking themes within sub sectors. Highland has been around for 22 years currently investing the 8 th fund which is $400 million. 6:00 – 7:30).

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

Once you gain real traction as an expert in your space through the blog, investors will put you at the top of their funding list. Since a startup by definition is not a recognized brand, you are the brand, based on the social media culture of today. Hone your communication skills.

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Startup Blogging Writing Google 101

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

She was a painter (art not houses), who saw an opportunity and went for it, funding the company by taking a loan from her parents and selling off all of her paintings. Recycled Bride uses PayPal to hold the funds until the seller ships their item and enters a tracking number into the system. Any funding yet? Funded by LaunchPad.

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Design Social Media Sales Sites 84

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

Once you gain real traction as an expert in your space through the blog, investors will put you at the top of their funding list. Since a startup by definition is not a recognized brand, you are the brand, based on the social media culture of today. Hone your communication skills.

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Blogging Product Startup Writing 104

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The startup--which is part of MuckerLab--landed a seed funding round last week, so we thought we''d catch up with founder and CEO Farbod Shoraka to dig deeper into the company''s goals and service. This empowers local florists to take advantage of things like organic SEO, and also helps them promote their current business, as well.

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Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Once you gain real traction as an expert in your space through the blog, investors will put you at the top of their funding list. Since a startup by definition is not a recognized brand, you are the brand, based on the social media culture of today. Hone your communication skills.

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Blogging Invest Startup Writing 93

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. There's been a huge push to engage local businesses, to get them involve din social media, but video has yet to catch up. How is the company funded?

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Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

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. You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

At the moment, Conolly heads the startups social media team in Egypt while Turdubaev looks after Russian countries and translation of the site. Any funding yet? Other companies leave it to the search engines – but SEO is starting to see a decline with less searches being actioned each month in traditional search engines.-

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Advertising Services Social Network Startup 79

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Streaming media. Social media. Social networking. Social games. 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. Acquisition. Venture capital. Developers. Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Standalone URI shorteners work fine when you want to shorten mostly foreign URIs, but that’s a crappy approach when you want to submit your own stuff to social media. Because you throw away the ability to totally control your traffic from social media, and search engine traffic generated by social media as well.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

What You Know: A lengthy stream of media and press that have the tech world scratching their heads in confusion and/or denouncing them as the rap beef rudos of Silicon Valley. More recently, a conflict with Google over SEO practices saw heavy penalties on their search results, but ultimately led to a resolution between the two parties.

Startup 93

Startup Mobile Entertainment Sites 93

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. OTHER DEALS.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285