SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I recently got together with Aaron Shechet and an early stage startup to discuss the direction the company might want to take. I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. While at UC Santa Barbara, I started a café which served over 1100 dorm residents.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup. Market Size.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

Blogging is an important way to build an audience and also drive SEO traffic. Don’t blog about what you think would be “cool.&# I don’t think that most startup blogs should be about how to build a startup. The new stuff: How do I get started? Slice it up enough to do many posts.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2010

I’m only writing about the product because I’m passionate about it. 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. Basically, it rocks!

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. ” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

Fred talks about it here – he beat me to the punch because I always wanted to write about how awesome this is. Answers OnStartups- Shortly after I started blogging I noticed a website called “ Answers on Startups ,&# which I instantly loved and spent a bunch of time on. Quora “Lite&#.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Set up an award, and show winners. People buy from people.

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Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising SEO 105

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

million new pages added to the Internet every day, the biggest challenge for every entrepreneur is to get found, and get some credibility for a new startup. The biggest excuse most startup founders mention is too much to do building a product, mapping strategy, investors, etc. Your Google ranking will go up dramatically.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2019

It’s never too early to start marketing to define your brand. Thus I recommend that every business publish a website and start a blog even before they have a product to sell, enabling the following benefits: Get Google to work for you in highlighting your site. Hone your writing style for all communication.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Serial entrepreneur, venture investor and startup accelerator pioneer Brad Feld has notoriously mocked traditional marketing throughout his career. For a long time, I had a line which was, ‘Whenever I hear the word marketing, it makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth.’”. Write Your Own Playbook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is not placing ads, but tuning your website so that it is more highly ranked by Google, and featured in the first page of results, not in an ad beside the results. All these models start with the advertiser choosing the right search keywords to match user searches.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Back to regular writing this week so check back in. Richard De Silva started off as a journalist with the Washington Post after growing up in D.C. In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. We caught up with Skyler to hear about HeyTutor, which already has 25 employees and is growing rapidly.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. In the end it will be up to you to figure out what to do. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. Nothing blows up great opportunities faster than founders who are constantly fighting. Most VCs are book smart.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Set up an award, and show winners. People buy from people.

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Tips Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising 92

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

With the an estimated 150K new websites and 7M new pages added to the Internet every day, the biggest challenge for every entrepreneur is to get found, and get some credibility for a new startup. The biggest roadblock is that startup founders already have too much to do building a product, mapping strategy, courting investors, etc.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? 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.,

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Tell us a little bit about Newsforce?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Let me be clear – a product or consulting startup today without a blog, even with a static website, risks not being competitive in cost and time to reach and hold that critical mass of online customers. You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Set up an award, and show winners. People buy from people.

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Search Engine Optimization Entrepreneur Sites Advertising 96

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

In this article you’ll discover how to start a blog that makes money. One of the hardest things about being a blogger is drawing that line between being a business owner and writing for passion. Most bloggers wouldn’t turn down the opportunity to make a full time income from writing their blog. This is a pop up box.

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Blogging Email Writing Sites 83

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2018

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. Usability problems kill conversions. Keep sentences short.

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SEO Tips Newsletter Statistics 53

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Lead investors and follow investors can both win equally but in each case you know why you personally are writing the check. Remember that you’ll be investing against people who have worked on the Google algorithm and REALLY know what drives SEO. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. Connections.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

To get some up to speed, Rap Genius , as a team and company have upheld a reputation as anomalies in the tech world. More recently, a conflict with Google over SEO practices saw heavy penalties on their search results, but ultimately led to a resolution between the two parties. Rap Genius, Black Sheeps of Tech. It’s no secret.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Ive not found that much use for LinkedIn to help my blogging, but Im starting to think about this. I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. Im very happy with the time Ive spent building up my LinkedIn network. I definitely check people out using LinkedIn.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

We feel we've build, from the ground up, an internet brand. You and I are from a web background, and usually, when you run into problem--if you're not asking for something unreasonable like artificial intelligence--there is always a way to write some software, or put together a workaround to deal with the issue.

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Web Social Media SEO Media 225

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2013

To hear about how the company decided to expand into the market, we caught up with CEO Loren Bendele to learn more about its new grocery store coupon app, Favado (www.favado.com). Loren Bendele: We started looking at the type of people who are grocery couponing today. Explain what Favado is all about? Can you talk about the app?

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Mobile Sales Startup Sites 140

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

“If You Build It…They Will Come”, may work for historical baseball ghosts, but it’s not a strategy you can rely on when starting an internet company.Driving traffic to your website is a formula that can be reverse engineered. Other than paying for traffic with advertising, there are only so many ways to get people to show up at your door.

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Web Social Media Content Sites 61

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! Step 1: Prototypes.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

How did the company start? Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. The plans range up to approximately $190. In a way, it's kind of like a book I'm reading right now on web SEO, which was packaged form individual blogs. But, it didn't seem scalable.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

“If You Build It…They Will Come” may work for historical baseball ghosts, but it’s not a strategy you can rely on when starting an internet company. Other than paying for traffic with advertising, there are only so many ways to get people to show up at your door. Make a list of 15 similar websites.

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Web Social Media Content Sites 62

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

They are not the generalists required for new product startups. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Writing specialists. Administrative specialists.

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Entrepreneur Services Search Engine Optimization Startup 106

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. They also avoid Reg D.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

They are not the generalists required for new product startups. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Writing specialists. Administrative specialists.

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Entrepreneur Services Product Search Engine Optimization 89

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Entrepreneurs who run startups have to be generalists to survive. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Writing specialists. Administrative specialists.

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