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The Worst Advice We’ve Heard For SEO Services

YoungUpstarts

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is one such domain that is dotted with misinformation. Since we believe that prevention is better than cure, here’s a lowdown on some of the worst SEO advice doing the rounds over the internet. SEO is a One-Time Thing. Get Your Keyword Stuffing Game On – That’s SEO.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. They literally can’t respond to our core differentiator. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing. Market Structure.

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How to Effectively Use WordPress as Your CMS

Brandanew

It also gives users SEO plug-ins that offer the desired flexibility level and optimize your website page. Effective usage differentiates you from those who fail to get productive results. This enables you to keep the sidebar and header from the portfolio page as well as the portfolio posts. Multiple widgets and sidebars.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

Both Sides of the Table

Smart is simply not a differentiator. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. I would call their portfolio companies and ask how helpful or not they’ve been. look at their portfolio list. In fact, book smart can be a negative. Think of web vs. mobile. Traditional software vs. SaaS.

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). And these ideas have ways of seeping into board discussions with portfolio companies as in, “have you ever thought about trying A, B or C?&# You have tons of differentiation.

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How to Remain King of the World amidst Titanic Disruptions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

To bring an additional perspective to the conversation, I invited Lightspeed portfolio companies BloomReach, EdgeSpring, MapR, Nutanix, PernixData and Virtual Instruments who are focused on helping companies store, manage, analyze, and surface next-generation data and content.