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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Chris Dixon , September 12, 2010 My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when I was trying to break into the world of VC-backed startups. Why You Should Write. Status / reputation.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

You took the risk to start your company. But I’m working on a large team of people trying to figure out how to make micro improvements to a paid-search algorithm. So as a startup CEO you constantly have to suspend disbelief. Have the breakthrough technology. I do believe in total transparency with your core.

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Interview with Jonathan David, Tapstone

socalTECH

You have technology and strategy to maximize ROI. I started my first business at eighteen, a retail cell phone business on Main Street here in Santa Monica. Having sold smartphones when smartphone were getting started, and figuring out what users want in technology was a skill set that served me very well.

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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? Search engines. If you web site is not optimized for search engines (SEO), all your online content and marketing efforts are wasted. like Google.

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Idealab

Tech.Co

Bill Gross started Idealab in 1996 to create and operate pioneering technology companies. Overture Services, which began life as GoTo.com, was the first company to introduce the concept of paid search — the business model that powers the multibillion-dollar online search market.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. LA By The Numbers. But even this is changing.

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Interview With Mike Mothner, Wpromote On Growth, Acquisitions

socalTECH

We caught up with founder and CEO Mike Mothner --who we first interviewed back in 2007 --to catch up with the company, gets some hints and tips on growing a company, the challenges of bootstrapping, and why Wpromote hopes to be buying more companies in the future. So we are looking for clients looking for significant growth.