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

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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 not only became an expert in SEO, she began consulting in SEO to continue to make ends meet and she became a speaker on the topic.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. How did it help you? What are you working on now?

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

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Past Success? The problem with this is that past successes aren’t always relevant to future ones as the methods and environment of the past may no longer apply. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. In my experience 90% of VCs fall short on their promises of how helpful or not they can be with intros.

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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

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They are tasked with “getting deals done&# so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc. Similar with product features. Let me give you an example.

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

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I always wrote an authentic response and never cut-and-pasted text. When Quora went into Beta and became the “hip product to have access to&# in Silicon Valley I felt compelled to play around with it. You blog both because you enjoy it and because it helps build your online reputation. Quora “Lite&#. Engagement.

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

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In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. And if we were going to emphasize truly helping our portfolio as well as helping our own internal team better manage and live our own brand we wanted somebody senior who was part of our executive team.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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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. In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. I’m now back & ready for action. 5:00 – 5:55).

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