Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). Add content regularly. Conversational style.

Blogging 96

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing Social Network 96

socalTECH

JULY 6, 2009

We recently caught up with CEO Jonno Wells to talk about the firm and its expanding network of web sites. Our products are also syndicated into newspapers and web sites around the country. You also bought a surfing magazine at one point, didn't you? Jonno Wells: A couple of years back, we bought Water magazine.

Web 140

Web Content Mobile Sites 140

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). Add content regularly. Conversational style.

Blogging 91

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Services Writing 91

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2011

The simple answer is that if you want to be found and remembered on the Web, the perfect domain name can easily be worth several thousand dollars. Kevin Ham was the most powerful dotcom mogul you've never heard of in 2007, reports Business 2.0 Early on, he wrote software to snag expiring names on the cheap.

Company 81

Company Companies Pricing Web 81

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. In this role, he reports directly to Alan Mulally, Ford’s president and chief executive officer. Make sure to tune in for all the live action.

Los Angeles 75

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

In the past century, curators for business information were specialized news magazines like Forbes and Inc., The Business Insider aggregates, reports, and analyzes the top entrepreneur and startup stories and blogs daily from across the web, and delivers them in a very readable format.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Technical Review Blogging Java 92

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). If you do have a separate web domain name, like ‘www.domainname.com’, then your blog name should be the suffix ‘/blog’ or ‘blog.domainname.com’. Many now skip the separate static website.

Blogging 48

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Startup Writing 48

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. In this role, he reports directly to Alan Mulally, Ford’s president and chief executive officer. Make sure to tune in for all the live action.

Los Angeles 49

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Think about how many images are on the web. Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” Perhaps one of the reasons it took 20 years for the commercial web to monetize images is because matching images with content is a very difficult.

Advertising 98

Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2010

The simple answer is that if you want to be found and remembered on the Web, a great domain name will be well worth several thousand dollars. Kevin Ham is the most powerful dotcom mogul you've never heard of, reports Business 2.0 Here's how the master of Web domains built a $300 million empire of over 300,000 domain names.

Pricing 49

Pricing Web Software Review .Net 49

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

Early online newspapers and magazines were merely digital versions of their physical self. We now know that the medium has changed the news industry leading to blogs, real-time reporting, integration of text and video, two-way discussions, stories surfaced based on what your friends are reading, etc.

Mobile 329

Mobile Advertising Media Marketing 329

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Maybe you sit and read Inc magazine for a while in the outside patio enjoying the sunny weather before you have to lock yourself in your white walled box chained to the computer working into the late night hours. Help a Reporter Out (HARO). I have the option to upload that data into my CRM. AMAZING “Value” and “Experience”.

Customer 85

Customer Custom Marketing SEO 85

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0:

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. One of the big questions, probably the biggest questions that I get from reporters, is 'what trends do you see?

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I re-connected with Andy Liu the founder & CEO of BuddyTV – the largest destination for social TV enthusiasts on the web. because every community needs its local tech press to report on companies and run conference. They haven’t launched their next gen product – watch this space. It’s awesome.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

(there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million).

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210