A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 15, 2014

And, if you grant my indulgent inclusion in that pantheon, I did the same as WP Engine took off, with a noticeable decrease in early 2012 and relatively little in the past twelve months. Some of it is algorithmic. Because m y daily experiences are unsharable. To share them would be to violate the privacy of others.

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David Teten

AUGUST 5, 2013

But they are also former software engineers and hackers, an experience that undoubtedly taught them skills in critical thinking and problem solving. Making savvy business decisions is not only about engineering, but also sales and marketing, business development, recruiting, and all the other functions of business. days to do.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We launched the larger channel back in 2012 and the smaller channel in 2019. Some of my favorite examples of channels that think outside the box with this are: What’s Inside ; Hydraulic Press Channel ; Primitive Technology ; Practical Engineering ; Rose Anvil. Beardbrand currently has two different YouTube channels, one with 1.6

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. The First Taste Engine. Jinni is a Taste Engine. Our project.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 20, 2012

Then Bright’s 15 data scientists and engineers looked at those results, as well as other activity on the site, to create a generalized scoring algorithm. Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012. © 2012 AOL Inc. In other words, the Bright Score assesses how well-suited you are for a certain job.

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www.readwriteweb.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google s efforts to integrate Google+ into its search results and Microsofts addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results. Having been built on algorithms, Google and Bing are looking for ways to include social discovery in their traditional search results. “We Share on Twitter.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

DECEMBER 5, 2011

I hear a lot of webmasters complain day in and day out about all the changes that Google constantly makes to its algorithm and how they affect our search engine placement. Let me break it to you: it’s not all about what Google has done and will do to update its algorithm. It’s about what you SHOULD BE doing.

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searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

More Search Engines. May 30, 2012 at 1:06pm ET by Conrad Saam. The engineer who can get this question is surprisingly rare, but amazingly valuable. Opinions expressed in the article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. How To: Search Marketing. How To: Analytics. How To: Link Building.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2012

Jason Hennessey is an internationally-known Search Engine Optimization (SEO) expert. Over the past seven years, Jason has been a vigorous student/practitioner of search marketing – dissecting, testing, debunking, and reverse engineering the major search algorithms.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. Coinbase was founded in 2012 and operates a cryptocurrency exchange. And it would be amazing. There wasn't anything that was digital that was provably unique.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2020

Its polymorphic engine scrambles the application’s runtime environment randomly and without a trace, making the memory space unpredictable to attackers. Founded in 2012 by Lior Akavia. Founded in 2017 by Didier Toubia. Most-recent deal: Undisclosed amount, 10 December 2019. CNBC Disruptor 50. CB Insights 50 Future Unicorns.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Or massively distributed data persistence systems and algorithms. Clearspring just did this; they held a Big Data meetup and were pretty open about trying to recruit engineers — which was a smart move in a target rich environment they created inside their own office. cc: @jeremyphoward >> 2012/02/28. February 2012 (1).

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Thanks to John’s generous promotion of my content over the years, many of you probably know I’ve spent most of my career in search engine optimization. In 2012, he sold his former company GetListed.org to Moz, helping over 3 million businesses get better visibility in the local search engines.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 2, 2014

His personal blog, Remains of the Day, is reliably interesting but there’s a post from 2012 that I revisit quite often. Back in my day the engineers wrote a cool db query which looked for YouTube embed links getting major traffic from a list of high pagerank news and entertainment sites. THAT feels like cadence.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2018

While word count is not the only thing that can impact how prominently an article will appear on the search engine results page, SEO experts say long-form content will be able to give you an edge. Also, keep in mind that social media algorithms might give video posts better organic reach than other types of posts.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Back when I was junior in college in 2012, I had an idea for an app called Recycler Spotter, a platform that rewarded users for their eco-friendly actions. I wanted to use gamification techniques to increase environmental awareness and boost recycling rates. Second, we have to get our hands dirty.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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Spencer Fry

JANUARY 23, 2013

Before diving in completely in the beginning of February, 2012, I'd had a handful of false starts learning to program dating all the way back to high school. Who wants to stare at a terminal all day just to get an algorithm to compile properly? or "All the most successful startups were founded by engineers." I hope you enjoy it.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

When Uber launched its low-cost UberX offering in the summer of 2012, the company quickly realized that the demand for its transportation services is HIGHLY elastic. This is the name that founder and CEO Travis Kalanick has given to his team of scientists and hardcore mathematicians who own the back-end routing algorithms for Uber.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

It was all about tricking the algorithm and I didn’t really break that bad habit until 2012. It didn’t need to be in the algorithm anymore. They warned people for years before 2012. And I was SEO, you need to do SEO. I didn’t even think about creating an awesome site, creating awesome content.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The company was founded in 2012 by Michiel Prins , Jobert Abma , Alex Rice and Merijn Terheggen , and today serves the needs of over 1,000 corporate bug bounty programs. Stitch Fix’s algorithms match the perfect stylist with each and every customer to help ensure the optimal outcome for each client.

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gigaom.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Nov 3, 2012 - 2:00PM PT. o and its new YARN functionality that allows for new processing frameworks, but solidified with the spate of projects and products — including Cloudera’s very popular commercial distribution — that now include a SQL query engine or other method for interactive analysis running alongside MapReduce.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Promising men to let them ‘shop like men’, BRANDiD employs its Masculine Algorithmic Learning Engine (M.A.L.E.) A Latvian game development firm building a high-performance game engine in HTML5 for online games. to create a shopping service specifically for the way men shop for clothing. assemble a garden shed).

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paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

September 2012 A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Whereas a search engine, for example, is. If you start a search engine you have to compete with the whole world. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. The only essential thing is growth. These are not startups, except in a few unusual cases.

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abovethecrowd.com

MARCH 10, 2014

Back in early 2012, Uber’s Boston team noticed a problem. Dynamic pricing changes are driven algorithmically when wait times are increasing dramatically, and “unfulfilled requests” start to rise. When demand outstrips supply, dynamic pricing algorithms increase prices to help the market reach equilibrium.

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marketingland.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Oct 3, 2012 at 1:28pm ET by John Quarto-vonTivadar. Marketing Day: October 8, 2012 Poll The Twitterverse With Twitters New Brand Survey Ads Marketing Day: October 5, 2012 Marketing Day: October 4, 2012 LinkedIn Company Pages Receive A Slick, "Timeline-y" Upgrade. 15-16, 2012. Search Engine News, SEO & PPC Info.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. Elaine Kenny.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Google Content Experiments is Google’s testing and optimization tool, mainly operating with bandit algorithms, but also with the option to run traditional split tests. Pros: Bandit algorithms provide a different mathematical model for optimization. Instead of running simple split tests, Myna operates using bandit algorithms.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 31, 2018

And because platforms like Netflix rely on recommendation engines—some 75% of what users watch comes via recommendations—bundling expands the potential list of recommended titles. In the original 2012 study , the “presenters” had two choices of what to offer hypothetical customers: An iPod Touch with a cover; or. Take $2 off your bill.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2019

If you’re REI and you own content on mountaineering prep, you position yourself as an authority for related products—in consumer minds and search-engine algorithms. They began posting videos on YouTube in 2012—three years before Joule came to market. Podcasts can reach your audience without demanding their full attention.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 6, 2016

Underlines improve clickthrough on Bing for both algorithmic results and ads (so more revenue) and improve time to successful click (better UX). It’s really just product engineering + optimization. Google moved away from basic algorithms. Now they’re using machine learning algorithms. Algorithms are building algorithms.

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