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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? Targets Are you developing a native app and/or a web app? Can you do a hybrid web/native application? SEO Support Will URLs and page content need to be properly formed for SEO? Tell me about the business.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

This was the first in her string of web properties. One of the many things you become expert at when you launch your own company and have no money is SEO. Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. She learned at the kitchen table as so many spouses do. How’s that for an ex painter?

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This Week in Venture Capital with Jason Calacanis

Both Sides of the Table

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.

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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? Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed?

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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? Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed?

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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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6 Ways To Make You An Entrepreneur Before The Product

Startup Professionals Musings

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.

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