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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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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. This is an Internet website that allows the easy creation and editing of interlinked web pages via a web browser text editor. Search engine marketing (SEM).

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Angel Investing Skill 2 – Domain Knowledge

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Just because you use all of the products, read all the tech journals, back-channel at all of the right cocktail parties and know a couple of guys at Twitter or Facebook does not mean that you necessarily have well refined domain knowledge. Who ultimately invested in FourSquare? Fred Wilson who had learned much as an early investor in Twitter.

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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. This is an Internet website that allows the easy creation and editing of interlinked web pages via a web browser text editor. Search engine marketing (SEM).

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7 Facts You Need to Know When Creating a Mobile App

Tech Zulu Event

Things you don’t read about in the Wall St Journal. I thought it might be valuable (and fun) to share some of those “mobile surprises” with you: SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Download Apps From the Web. Doesn’t it seem like its every person you see has an iPhone? over the lifetime of that app, while users who pay $0.99

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). Where Stealth is Good – There’s a lot of discussions on the web about whether startups should be stealthy before they launch or not. Don’t do this. It’s an angle.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

requestHandler.php [L] Please note that the code above kinda disables the Web server’s error handling. Here are a few ideas how to block rogue (crappy, not behaving, …) Web robots. You don’t need all the balls and whistles (like stats) overloading most scripts available on the Web.

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