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Understanding Research Engine Optimization And Its Impact on SEO with Shama Hyder

Duct Tape Marketing

Understanding Research Engine Optimization And Its Impact on SEO with Shama Hyder written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Shama Hyder. Search engines are still here, they're evolving and so forth.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C. A few themes which have emerged from our 13 most recent investments: CONSUMER (B2C). Physical-World Ecommerce. Step-Function Ad Tech.

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How These Brothers Went from Hip-Hop Duo to Transforming the World of B2B Sales

ReadWriteStart

Think of everything that’s happened in the B2C buying process in the last 20 years… buying insurance, a trip abroad, or a new car. You can’t replicate a frictionless B2C experience using home-grown tools. . Q: How will B2B sales evolve in the future? . There’s no way email, Slack, conference calls, and shared docs are going to cut it.

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10 Rosh Hashanah Resolutions for Startup Founders

VC Cafe

It doesn’t matter if your company is B2B or B2C, as Y Combinator puts it, you need to build stuff people want, and obsess about making it as user friendly, friction free and smooth as possible. Kawasaki’s Law of Pre-Money Valuation: for every full-time engineer, add $500,000; for every full-time M.B.A., Our goals, their goals.

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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This is often B2C because the value is in quantity of customers, and there’s 100x more consumers than businesses. $1/mo This can be a surprisingly difficult zone to become profitable in, because the sales and marketing motions and engineering costs are the same as for much larger sales, but without the attendant revenue.

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

Both Sides of the Table

We sat down for an hour to talk about why what GaiKai built was able to overcome its much better funded rival and to dispel the myth that great engineering teams don’t exist in Southern California. GaiKai had 50 such engineers, which was a large part of its success. I don’t know the company or the details first hand.

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The Strategy Behind Building A Thriving Online Community For Your Brand

Duct Tape Marketing

3:59] Who needs to be thinking about community — B2B brands or B2C brands? [5:58] Are B2B communities B2C? But I've also people seeing people come from teaching engineering roles. [2:50] Do the people who join a community intend on engaging with many members or is it really because of the way the technology works? [3:59]