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Sustainable Strategies for Internet Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with ecommerce, your latest invention, or personal services. But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. Beware of no-cost and low-cost marketing. Search engines.

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7 Strategies For Beating The Failure Odds Online

Startup Professionals Musings

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with e-commerce, your latest invention, or personal services. But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. Beware of no-cost and low-cost marketing. Do them all.

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5 Tips On How To Outsource Your Blogging

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

She will search engine optimize my posts for me and begin the marketing process of driving traffic. It may not seem to take up too much time to do all these, though to save an extra two hour and a half hours per week that costs me around $3.50, I would rather outsource uploading my blog posts any day.

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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

David Teten

Prior to joining First Round in early 2006, Mr. Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us Mr. Kalghatgi is a recovering engineer with several years of experience in front-end design and development focused on mobile and web UX before completing his MBA at Harvard Business School.

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What Drives You to Bring in More Traffic?

Up and Running

Get that Engine Running. The goal here is to increase your site’s page rank on search engines like Google and Bing ; have a strategy in place ahead of time so you’re not doing things on the fly. Bookmarks, PPC and More. Some other options include directory submission and Pay-Per-Click (PPC).

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook. I use Diigo , a social bookmarking tool, to keep a record of useful websites. Capital has built a free online tool for founders to calculate their cost of capital.

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How to Curate Sitelinks to Increase Conversions

ConversionXL

If you rely on search engine traffic, conversion optimization starts before visitors get to your site. Neglecting those visitors, on the other hand, may cost you easy sales. How do search engines choose sitelinks? Key phrases extracted from social bookmarking tags. For most sites, a brand query (e.g.

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