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

Both Sides of the Table

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. And she didn’t start her company in Northern California. She leveraged herself and even sold many of her possessions to get started. She started her business from a personal need.

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Sustainable Strategies for Internet Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

It seems like everyone has an Internet startup these days. So what are the key strategies that can improve the success odds for your online startup? If you web site is not optimized for search engines (SEO), all your online content and marketing efforts are wasted. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day.

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Chartbeat is to Blogs as Google Analytics is to Print Newspapers

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Let’s start with what I like most about the product. Their staff can see in real time what’s performing and when a story starts becoming hot they can find out the root causes of what’s driving the traffic. On occasion I’ll see this number at 200 and know that a post that I did is “blowing up&# over there.

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7 Strategies For Beating The Failure Odds Online

Startup Professionals Musings

It seems like everyone has an Internet startup these days. So what are the key strategies that can improve the success odds for your online startup? If your web site is not optimized for search engines (SEO), all your online content and marketing efforts are wasted. You have to be found and favored by search engines.

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8 Ways To Ensure That Your Website Is Winning For You

Startup Professionals Musings

Even more disappointing are other statistics that show most websites that do exist have a very low “conversion rate,” or ratio of visitors to the site versus ones who meet your goal of buying a product or signing up for a newsletter. Highlighting the problem, and the solution, I just found a new book, “ Making Websites Win ,” by Dr.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Newsletters. 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. Apple event rumor round-up: iPad Mini, iPad 3.5, Investors are no longer compelled to stick to their own backyard, and Southern California is changing the startup landscape, consistently ranking in the top three along with Silicon Valley and the Boston area.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” Such Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is modern-day snake oil. Affiliates invest the up-front marketing expenses required to attract customers. Unattributed – There is no such thing as organic customers. It does not happen.

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