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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. Who says Austin can’t do B2C now ? But I digress?—?this and I bet he’ll be back. This wasn’t his first rodeo, as we say in Texas.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

million … yes that was seed in 1999!) Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. I sat next to Irwin Jacobs (founder of Qualcomm) on a bus ride. and were ready to take off the covers and tell the world. I was on CNN, who taped live from the event.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. It was a disaster.

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How SEO Has Evolved Over The Years

Duct Tape Marketing

When I started with SEO, believe it or not was in 1999 long time ago. A lot of it depends on whether you're B2C or B2B. If you're B2C, you wanna build a community, um, around your brand, get traction and make sure Google can see it. And, um, even back then we knew where the puck was going. It just, they have to be natural links.

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How To Build Trust, Increase Authority, And Rank High With Google

Duct Tape Marketing

When I started with SEO, believe it or not was in 1999, long time ago. A lot of it depends on whether you're B2C or B2B. If your B2C, you want to build a community, um, around your brand, get traction and make sure Google can see it. And, um, even back then we knew where the puck was going.