Steve Reich

AUGUST 24, 2012

Then Dustin shifted to “crowdfunding SEO” — how to get discovered, understood, and funded on AngelList. It was classic SEO advice, but applied to the world of AngelList.

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SEO Tips Coach Class 45

SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Some very interesting graphics including this heat map: Very cool visualization tool! in Computer Science.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Invest Southern California CTO Coach 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

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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Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more. Value : We realize how much you have invested in attending a conference.

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SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 64

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

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. And SEO juice of sites with no value makes searching for real product feedback suck. Gdgt (l ed by Spark, True Ventures ) – Love the idea.

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Venture Capital Capital SEO Yahoo 232

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more. Value : We realize how much you have invested in attending a conference.

SEO 40

SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

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). Marty Zwilling.

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Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics. Measuring is all about return-on-investment (ROI). Social media activities span the gamut from curation to gifting, building relationships and groups, blogging, service actions, to lead conversion.

Social Media 135

Social Media Framework Media Metrics 135

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. How do people drive SEO growth? Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery. Online marketing uses techniques for driving promotion and place. What about mobile?

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Many of the entrepreneurs I advise or invest with spend considerable time on the Internet, keeping up with technology, customers, and competitors, but very few feel the need for an early personal presence. Invest your time in networking online, as well as offline. Reach out to friends and supporters for positive mentions.

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Product Entrepreneur Technical Advisors Technical Review 127

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

In essence Muhammad thinks the “growth hacking” is a charlatan term for online marketing that consists of a bunch of everyday tasks that all online businesses should be doing: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Referral Marketing, etc. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Success begets success.

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Technical Review SEM SEO Marketing 384

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

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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Startup SEM IP SEO 150

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

The area which probably is really attuned to your readers, is we also serve many mid-market, growth oriented companies that are looking to grow and acquire customers, with paid and earned digital channels, paid search, paid media, social, email, and organic SEO, as well as digital PR and content. What are your thoughts on that?

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Acquisition Paid Search El Segundo SEO 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The major blog platforms, including WordPress, Blogger, and TypePad are free, and can be linked directly into an existing domain name to consolidate your overall SEO impact. The best part is that all this is not a revenue drain. In fact, many people are now using WordPress as their base website, as well as their blog.

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Blogging Invest Startup Writing 93

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2019

Through SEO (search engine optimization) techniques on your site, and help from good Content Marketing platforms such as “ Link-able ,” customers will be drawn to your site to expedite the building of your brand.

Blogging 85

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing SEO 85

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

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'd rather invest time investing in social media to drive traffic to our site. Great stuff!

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Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

We have made 5 online video investments in total – some we will talk about later this year. Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. You must invest in technology. You can’t build a brand on YouTube. I think most arguments miss the mark.

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SEM Content Platform Acquisition 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

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. Think about Luma Partners.

Marketing 389

Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

How many adds came through organic SEO? For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. SEO is seldom “free.”. Revenue metrics are one of the first things I ask for from the startups in which I invest.

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Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics. Measuring is all about return-on-investment (ROI). Social media activities span the gamut from curation to gifting, building relationships and groups, blogging, service actions, to lead conversion.

Social Media 96

Social Media Media Marketing Metrics 96

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

But less as a complaint and more as advice to younger networkers, the more you invest in relationships the more you will get when you need. Later on he would offer to share his advice on SEO with other portfolio companies. And sometimes I feel happy to help somebody even when we’re just getting to know each other.

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Venture Capital Press GRP Partners Blogging 407

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2010

I’m not a shareholder and I’m not even actively looking at making an investment. For Mahalo this often means making modifications to the story in real time both to update any facts and to improve SEO on a story that is already becoming popular. In fact, I’m surprised by how antiquated Google Analytics feels.

Blogging 287

Blogging Google Screening Mahalo 287

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 15, 2015

If you invest in more training at the beginning of their careers, you’ll need to invest less down the road. Invest in the software that will take care of those repetitive tasks for you. When is the last time you invested in new technology? Tap into SEO. Workflow Software. Business Process Management Software.

SEO 40

SEO Search Engine Optimization Tips Software Review 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. These give good customer connection and SEO. How integrated is your marketing, and how carefully are you measuring your marketing investment? The tools and measurements are the same for both.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Marketing Resource 108

socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

None of the small businesses, these spas, have the expertise or the budget to actually understand lead generation, SEM or SEO, or even know how to manage retention, referrals, expertise, or how to customize or streamline their processes. The retention rates were low, which mean they could not invest in marketing like we can.

Template 124

Template Beverly Hills Startup SEM 124

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. As a starting point you have to realize that investment firms (which a VC is) have management needs. That certainly works well for some.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

And, finally, anybody who works in the space of SEO knows that the hottest thing going right now in user results are Q&A sites (see below). So James Hritz’s hypothesis proves correct – I blog about AngelList and get third in the SEO rankings. No, really. Still, I’m betting they got this one right.

Blogging 301

Blogging SEO Startup Writing 301

InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Rejecting the paint-by-numbers approach to corporate communications deployed by most marketing executives, Brad has embraced unconventional guerilla marketing tactics to help establish his venture capital firm, Foundry Group, as a thought leader in early-stage tech investing. companies should… focus on building amazing products.

Marketing 233

Marketing Blogging Startup Venture Capital 233

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Are you thematic in your investing or entrepreneur focused? (11:40-14:15). In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. Highland has been around for 22 years currently investing the 8 th fund which is $400 million. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare). 11:40-14:15).

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. These give good customer connection and SEO. How integrated is your marketing, and how carefully are you measuring your marketing investment? The tools and measurements are the same for both.

Social Media 103

Social Media Media Marketing Startup 103

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. These give good customer connection and SEO. How integrated is your marketing, and how carefully are you measuring your marketing investment? The tools and measurements are the same for both.

Media 59

Media Marketing Social Media Resource 59

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

We were able to boot strap the company on only $800, and scaled it to millions in revenues without investment, because of the efficiency of our marketing. Anyway, one day we said, holy sh*t, we either need to get some investment or scale back on this. The second thing, is tools. That's the Visa round.

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Beverly Hills Acquisition 113

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is not placing ads, but tuning your website so that it is more highly ranked by Google, and featured in the first page of results, not in an ad beside the results. SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.”

SEM 90

SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Investors invest in people as much as the idea. Each can be linked directly into your site domain name for maximum SEO impact. It’s far more satisfying and fruitful to be approached by potential investors, rather than cold-calling a list of people who never heard of you.

Blogging 110

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Best Cybersecurity Tools for Startups With online attacks costing businesses more and more each year , investing in cybersecurity is no longer optional. From abandoned cart recovery to SEO optimization, Shopify offers every feature you'd expect from a premium website builder.

Tool 131

Tool Startup Software Review Technical Review 131

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

What would it take in investments to acquire and retain traffic to support these businesses? Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. But I’m investing on the assumption you will be successful, of course. Market Structure.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. These give good customer connection and SEO. How integrated is your marketing, and how carefully are you measuring your marketing investment? The tools and measurements are the same for both.

Media 92

Media Social Media Marketing Resource 92