SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 9, 2009

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? SEO for Startups )? What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? What's the User Interface Beyond the Web Site ? Tell me about the business. Administrators?

Software Development 292

Software Development Develop Development Startup 292

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. You get a lot of traffic — not always results. If you aren’t careful every PR team will measure inches over impact.

Activity 164

Activity Conference Press Case Study 164

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

As the number of sites on the Internet floats around one billion, the challenge with every new startup is to be found and stand out. More important, if someone does find your site, the content better be enticing enough for them to come back. Blogging will improve your site search engine ranking.

Blogging 110

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. You have a marketing department with three people. They’re tasked with doing … marketing. Let me give you an example.

Startup 323

Startup Press Development Team Review SEM 323

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Our interview this morning is with Lolita Carrico, founder of Gloss Network for Women (www.mygloss.com), an online network of sites focused on women. Are sponsors interested in such highly targeted sites, rather than the broad reach? Do you find it's been more difficult to build up traffic for a more targeted site, or easier?

Networking 230

Networking Social Media Startup Search Engine Optimization 230

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). Tell us more about MetaCafe? (37:00-40:30).

Capital 265

Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2010

Alec Shankman is CEO of Santa Monica-based Gotcast (www.gotcast.com), an online site focused on casting of actors for television shows, movies, and other productions. 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.

Hollywood 252

Hollywood Startup Sites SEO 252

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

The site is the brainchild of Tracy DiNunzio , who took her experience running RecycledBride.com and is now applying the same concept to women's clothing. I didn't have any funding. I was a painter then, and I started selling all of my paintings to fund RecycledBride. RecycledBride really has become a popular site.

Startup 236

Startup Education Acquisition Funding 236

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'd rather invest time investing in social media to drive traffic to our site. Any thoughts on my post?

Acquisition 170

Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

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. Whereas Google and other search engines may take two or three weeks to list your new website in search results, new blog sites and new blog entries are indexed every day. Hone your communication skills.

Startup 101

Startup Blogging Writing Google 101

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. Whereas Google and other search engines may take two or three weeks to list your new website in search results, new blog sites and new blog entries are indexed every day. Hone your communication skills.

Blogging 104

Blogging Product Startup Writing 104

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. Sellers list their items on the site, using a simple 60-second listing process. Any funding yet? Funded by LaunchPad. Entrepreneurial Background?

Design 84

Design Social Media Sales Sites 84

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

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Online travel sites are great for getting you to the location, but they don't give you any good ideas for when you get there. You might find our site searching for the keyword "jet skiing", but when you come to the site, you'll see in the same vicinity gondola cruises, electric duffy boat tours, kayaking, or surfing.

Activity 164

Activity Startup Sites Web 164

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. We're about to do some marketing, but the hard part really isn't going to be getting people to visit the site, it's to get them to stick. How is the company funded? People are so used to the Google mold.

PPC 113

PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

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

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. Whereas Google and other search engines may take two or three weeks to list your new website in search results, new blog sites and new blog entries are indexed every day. Hone your communication skills.

Blogging 93

Blogging Invest Startup Writing 93

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Matthew Graczyk is founder of angel-backed Zubican (www.zubican.com)--saw a problem, which was the difficulty of finding suppliers for products for businesses--and decided to solve the problem, with a site specifically targeted at helping B2B buyers and sellers connect. We've also got SEO feed pages. How are you funded and backed?

SEO 100

SEO Advertising Gogii Tech Coast Angels 100

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. At TripUp, we had lots of user generated reviews and hotels, and we were the first to add user general video to a travel community site. How is the company funded?

Networking 150

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. But not doing basic research makes no sense. Market Structure.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

This article wasn’t actually from a single interview, but the result of a couple of conversations with a co-founder of Rap Genius , the wildly profiled lyrics annotation site. 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

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? We are talking to companies now about sponsoring the entire site – so their branding will be throughout each page. We help them with this. Why the name?

Advertising 79

Advertising Services Social Network Startup 79

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? User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

Incubator 150

Incubator CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire 150

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Here’s how you can (could) integrate a URI shortener into your site’s architecture. Your site’s architecture may require a different approach. By integrating a URI shortener into your site architecture you gain the abilitiy to perform way more than URI shortening.

SEO 37

SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

How to do it the right way Here is what a site owner can expect from a Twitter app’s Web robot: A meaningful user agent A Web robot must provide a user agent name that fulfills at least these requirements: A unique string that identifies the bot. XXXL t-shirt that I really like to get a descriptive link from this site.

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

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. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. Of course, you should monitor social media such as Twitter, the social news sites, Facebook, etc. In addition, I do a few consulting projects on the side, in the areas of product strategy, search engine optimization, and intellectual property.

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

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.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285