SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? SEO for Startups )? SEO Support - will URLs need to be well formed? Will back-end support for SEO be needed? Are there specific metrics needed for future funding rounds or for operations? Tell me about the business. Other types of users?

Develop 396

Develop Development Startup SEO 396

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

Quora ( funding led by Benchmark at a crazy valuation: $86 million ). Q&A delivers amazing SEO juice that I’ve seen at several recent companies so I get that. And SEO juice of sites with no value makes searching for real product feedback suck. Crazy valuation. Gdgt (l ed by Spark, True Ventures ) – Love the idea.

Venture Capital 232

Venture Capital Capital SEO Yahoo 232

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? SEO for Startups )? SEO Support - will URLs need to be well formed? Will back-end support for SEO be needed? Are there specific metrics needed for future funding rounds or for operations? Tell me about the business. Other types of users?

Develop 384

Develop Development Startup SEO 384

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Now, given our current economic crisis and VC ‘challenges’, the barriers to funding have gone up significantly as well. Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

Startup 150

Startup SEM IP SEO 150

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Holocognics would break it down even further and discuss why, for instance, SEO works in one industry and not another – both in the sense of why a certain business has a higher chance of succeeding in showing up higher in a search, but also why SEO in a certain business has a higher “acquisition” rate (to use the Startup Metrics term).

Startup 150

Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150

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.

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Acquisition Paid Search El Segundo SEO 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

You should also use these forums to test and hone your solution idea for general acceptance, before your risk your own money and investor funds to build a shippable version. If they credit you in their blog or industry articles, those backlinks will boost your SEO ranking, as well as your perceived reputation online.

Product 127

Product Entrepreneur Technical Advisors Technical Review 127

StartUp Beat

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

From the most innovative tech businesses to the money funding these ventures, we’re devoted to coverage of the startup revolution. Designed For SEO Professionals: $1999. StartupBeat, founded in 2009 in Los Angeles, is a media company focused on covering startups and why they matter in our lives. Spanish-Speaking: $699.

Advertising 40

Advertising SEO Media Los Angeles 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

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 many CEO’s just carry on being … CEO’s → fund raise, get media attention, attend conferences, hire staff, “set direction”, whatever. You get a lot of traffic — not always results.

Activity 164

Activity Conference Press Case Study 164

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 9, 2009

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? SEO for Startups )? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Tell me about the business. What are the big milestones you have as a business? Administrators?

Software Development 292

Software Development Develop Development Startup 292

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

However, as I read more about your focus, you are using these things in a slightly different way, i.e., not sure if SEO is as important. I recently posted about SEO for Startups. Is/was SEO important for MakeItWork? I’ll be curious to drill down a bit around concepts like Browse My Stuff. What's keeping you up at night?

Acquisition 170

Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

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

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.

Startup 236

Startup Education Acquisition Funding 236

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.

Startup 323

Startup Press Development Team Review SEM 323

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Establish visibility and attract funding sources. Each can be linked directly into your site domain name for maximum SEO impact. From there it’s a short step to podcasting, YouTube videos and Instagram. Customers these days expect to find your information where they are, not where you are.

Blogging 110

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

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. They also have a separate $300 million fund focused on bricks-n-mortar consumer retail. 11:40-14:15). 49:35-51:30).

Capital 265

Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

We had the chance to talk with co-founder John Tomich about the funding and the firm, which operates e-commerce sites for fashion brands and others. The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics. in a Series A venture round.

Venture Capital 113

Venture Capital SEM Commerce Email 113

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.

Marketing 389

Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

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.

Hollywood 252

Hollywood Startup Sites SEO 252

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).

Invest 288

Invest Angel Web 2.0 SEO 288

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. The major blog platforms, including WordPress, Blogger, and TypePad are free, and can be linked directly into an existing domain name to consolidate your overall SEO impact. Hone your communication skills.

Startup 101

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.

Design 84

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. The major blog platforms, including WordPress, Blogger, and TypePad are free, and can be linked directly into an existing domain name to consolidate your overall SEO impact. Hone your communication skills.

Blogging 104

Blogging Product Startup Writing 104

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.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. I did a cold outreach to Kevin, and funny enough, he told me something like SEO would never work. We're taking these new funds, and putting them directly into sales and marketing and development. Finally, what's next for the company?

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Beverly Hills Acquisition 113

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.

Marketing 380

Marketing Startup Press Technical Advisors 380

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

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

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Of course not every VC has the fund size or the fee size to build services at this scale yet many provide extremely well-regarded programs that are valuable. And there is often competition over marketing activities, fund raising ownership and the like. So I find that less “management” happens at these firms.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

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.

Beverly Hills 157

Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

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. How are you funded and backed? We were funded a little over a year ago, which allowed us to get past some key milestones and get a higher valuation. It's a double viral loop.

SEO 100

SEO Advertising Gogii Tech Coast Angels 100

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

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. The major blog platforms, including WordPress, Blogger, and TypePad are free, and can be linked directly into an existing domain name to consolidate your overall SEO impact. Hone your communication skills.

Blogging 93

Blogging Invest Startup Writing 93

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2015

Once they decide which YouTubers to hire, they can fund that video production. Those funds are held in escrow, so it''s safe for both sides. We tell those brands, it''s great to have one viral video, but you can achieve a lot more reach and content with SEO value, if you work with lots of smaller creators.

Content 100

Content Platform Startup Marketing 100

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.

PPC 113

PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

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Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

We're self funded as our own angel investor, and we thought based on the numbers in Hawaii it would be a nice sideline. We bat about 800 in terms of people buying off on the idea, who understand the bigger reach we have on the Internet, and the more SEO/SEM we do, which delivers business to them that they wouldn't have gotten otherwise.

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