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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, despite low SEO rank). Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

You took the risk to start your company. Your parents want to know why on Earth you’d leave a job at Google. But I’m working on a large team of people trying to figure out how to make micro improvements to a paid-search algorithm. So as a startup CEO you constantly have to suspend disbelief.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. Yes, Google won. LA By The Numbers.

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Interview with Dan LeBlanc, CEO and Co-founder, Daasity

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We spoke with CEO and co-founder Dan LeBlanc , a veteran of ProFlowers and FTD, on how he started the company and he problem the startup is solving for direct to consumer brands. What does your startup do? What's your background, and how did the startup come about? Dan LeBlanc: Daasity is about two years old.,

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Sustainable Strategies for Internet Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

It seems like everyone has an Internet startup these days. So what are the key strategies that can improve the success odds for your online startup? You have to be found and favored by search engines. Search engines. like Google. Paid search” will mitigate this to some extent, but is not a sustainable strategy.

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Social Search – What Entrepreneur Needs To Know

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In contrast, social networking sites drove a record number of clicks, up 20% over the prior year. As noted in this recent Wall Street Journal article, Google has begun requesting that merchants include rating and review data to ensure that the efficacy of their search results.