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The Worst Advice We’ve Heard For SEO Services

YoungUpstarts

You should shape your content around semantics and natural language because they will play a crucial role in determining how pages rank in the search engine results page (SERP). Mobile Optimization Can be Pushed for Later. Buy Links to Fast-Track Link Building. Content Duplication or Spinning Helps in Short Term.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

In fact, in the 70’s and 80’s, the distinction was almost entirely semantic, as the military and aerospace industry invested ungodly amounts of capital to create technology breakthroughs that eventually saw wide commercial adoption in the personal computing industry.

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How Google’s Machine Learning Is Impacting Local Store Traffic

YoungUpstarts

While still in its early stages, machine learning has already had a significant impact on different aspects of everyday life. The evolution of semantic-based search results in search engines. by Ronald Dod, Chief Marketing Officer and Co-founder of Visiture.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. LA investors are more pragmatic.

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

www.drowningamerican.com

Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. Front End Expertise: XHTML/CSS/JavaScript – Hand code, standards compliant, semantic, cross platform & cross device interfaces, jQuery, MooTools, Ext. JS (for web/internet and mobile devices).

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

For example, if you’re looking to approach Kleiner Perkins it’s worth knowing that my friend Matt Murphy runs their iFund and therefore is the in-house expert on all things mobile. He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc. Meet early.

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TALK LESS! (or, the fine art of Sales)

Scalable Startup

Humans make decisions by being convinced by other humans, even if the convincing is implemented by automation, data mining, and semantics. In most of the pitches I get from early stagers these days, they start talking and demoing and don’t know when to quit. Respect the human sales skills. They keep “selling” me.

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