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APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. Thank you. (if

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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. How’s that for duality.

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MAY 5, 2009

in a Series A venture round. 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.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. How did you connect with Kevin and ScOps Venture Capital, and why did you decide to raise a round? I did a cold outreach to Kevin, and funny enough, he told me something like SEO would never work.

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MARCH 14, 2013

I am a VC. 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.

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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).

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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. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here.

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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. I didn't have any funding. When that wasn't enough, I started using Airbnb to fund the business.

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MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok). Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Market Size. Market Structure.

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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.). Also be careful about VCs. But once a VC has heard your idea he can’t “un-think&# it. A funding announcement is a stand-alone event. Be careful about this advice.

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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. Theres many good companys that will never turn into a $100M VC kind of company. What can they do for funding, where can they go for help?

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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.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Venture capital. MYTH 2: Silicon Valley companies will always have the best shot at funding. Matthew Jenusaitis is the CEO of OCTANe , an Orange County startup accelerator whose mission is to connect people and ideas with capital and resources. SEO Software. Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Cloud services.

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