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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

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?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

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?

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Startup Business Model Considerations

SoCal CTO

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.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

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).

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Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything

SoCal CTO

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?

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

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?

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

The great NorCal vs. SoCal debate is a longstanding, undeniable rivalry between the stereotypical surfer dudes of the south and environmental geeks to the north. There are a lot of misconceptions about SoCal and it’s time we set them straight. MYTH 1: SoCal’s nothing but beaches, Housewives, and Mickey Mouse. Featured stories.