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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Think about how you can project the voice you want, and make sure it is consistently used by all team members across all platforms used. 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).

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MARCH 14, 2013

Or more directly – they are likely narcissistic resuscitations of your newest features or bragging points that nobody but your marketing team and your mom care about. But mostly they’re thinking, “Will my audience even care about this topic?” Think about Luma Partners. I am a VC. I hand out money.

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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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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. I was thinking about this yesterday because my assistant Tasha posted a link on Facebook to Paul C. Think about it – who knows angels the best? I wrote about there here.

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JANUARY 12, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about “ growth hacking ” and why I thought it was wrong that people were hating on the term unnecessarily. Product is simply about defining a physical good or service that would be valued by consumers of the product more than existing alternatives based on functionality, quality and/or price.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2019

One of these is blogging, to let people know about your brand, provide links to supportive articles, and generate back-links to your content from other sites. After a few blogs about your idea, you will know from reader feedback, positive and negative, whether you really have something to offer, before you spend big money on it.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

Tell our readers who haven't heard of Wpromote, what your business is all about? It's been a long time since we last talked, and it looks like you've grown significantly � tell us a bit about the growth? Mike Mothner: The key is, we have been selective about who we work with. What are your thoughts on that?

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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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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I roughly know about MakeItWork, but tell me a bit about where you spend your time day-to-day. I have a few meetings with the team, perhaps about the website design, radio show structure, an event we are working on, a sponsorship (perhaps the uniforms for our youth basketball team). I recently posted about SEO for Startups.

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APRIL 18, 2010

I’m not a shareholder and I’m not even actively looking at making an investment. I’m only writing about the product because I’m passionate about it. Let’s start with what I like most about the product. Below are my numbers about 3 minutes after I Tweeted. Basically, it rocks!

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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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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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AUGUST 23, 2010

I’m no wall flower so when something doesn’t resonate I’m usually pretty vocal about it. He wrote a blog post that always stuck with me about how there are regulars on his blog who hang out there a bit like “Cheers&# just having a chat with a metaphorical beer in hand. really understand it. It’s true.

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JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It’s never too early to start a dialog with customers, as long as you don’t mislead them about where you are in the cycle. You will also learn about competitors, who can’t resist responding to a well-written blog. Writing a blog is all about communication, and that’s your number one job as founder of a new startup.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. I’ve seen too many companies go off track by a VC hell bent on the team pursuing the VCs strategy which at times is about chasing the next shiny object. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. Most VCs are book smart.

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APRIL 4, 2011

And if you’re not meeting as a team to discuss these metrics and have a regular debate about how you’re doing and what needs to change then I can assure you that you’ll never reach your destination. Here are some measurements I think about. How many adds came through organic SEO? SEO is seldom “free.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

Think about how you can project the voice you want, and make sure it is consistently used by all team members across all platforms used. 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).

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Dmitri Leonov: We built a distribution business for equipment for the spa industry, and have had 10,000 client over that time, but in the last few years, we've really focused on talking to spa customers about their needs in the market. What's different about our business model is to bring them customers. That makes this a no-brainer.

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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. Tell us more about Highland Capital (14:30 – 16:30). Highland has been around for 22 years currently investing the 8 th fund which is $400 million. 11:40-14:15).

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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.

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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. million in savings in less than five months while spending about $50,000. The tools and measurements are the same for both. Marty Zwilling.

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MARCH 25, 2016

If you’re not even spending any time thinking about what your market could be you’re simply being lazy and unprepared. What would it take in investments to acquire and retain traffic to support these businesses? Let me be very direct. What is the CPM of ads in this industry (should I even be ad supported?).

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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. million in savings in less than five months while spending about $50,000. The tools and measurements are the same for both. Marty Zwilling.

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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. million in savings in less than five months while spending about $50,000. The tools and measurements are the same for both. Marty Zwilling.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

After a few blogs about your concept, the comments better match your passion, or it’s time to rethink your idea. Don’t promise what you can’t deliver, but marketing is all about building excitement and suspense. Investors invest in people as much as the idea. The challenge is to spend minimal time and money learning.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

talking about Prodeges Search with Kevin Site - [link]. Posted byTony Karrer at 5:02 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Its interesting to think about how universities might want to have their staff better aligned with moving ideas from the lab to start-ups. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 In my experience, this has been really hard to do successfully. in Computer Science.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Think about how you can project the voice you want, and make sure it is consistently used by all team members across all platforms used. 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).

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers. Since then it has become much harder to find people and while we are talking about hiring relatively small numbers of people, the typical sources of candidates dont seem to be working. in Computer Science.

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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. million in savings in less than five months while spending about $50,000. The tools and measurements are the same for both. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

Think about how you can project the voice you want, and make sure it is consistently used by all team members across all platforms used. 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).

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny. Ive personally been involved in the start-up world in Los Angeles for about 15 years, and have had the opportunity to work on many early-stage companies (e.g., Evening events in Orange County require about 2 hours of round trip drive time.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Part of the discussion around this is the talk about the founder who only got $83M (as compared to $3xxM for the other founders) who bailed out early and choose to go back to school. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 The poor guy. What a bad $200M decision. in Computer Science.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

However, for us, it''s more about empowering the local florist. It''s all about empowering the florists, and have them show up on local results. This empowers local florists to take advantage of things like organic SEO, and also helps them promote their current business, as well. They have to pay for placement.

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