YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 30, 2017

by Mark Woodcock, founder of Bigfoot Digital. Think about what people search for. Consider alternative methods of search. Due to the familiarity of technology, use of mobile phones and growth of voice search, SEO has changed somewhat. How will they find your website – organically, paid search or social?

SEO 138

SEO Search Technical Review Social Media 138

The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Kevin Wu, co-founder and CEO of job search optimization program Pathrise , says “Digital marketer roles are some of the most in-demand positions in the tech industry.” SEO – Search Engine Optimization for Online Marketing Concept. How many searches have been guided by promoted content? And he’s right.

Technical Review 146

Technical Review PPC SEM Marketing 146

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. It’s been a while since they’ve updated their RFS list and it captures all the buzzword’s of today’s tech world: AI, defence tech, climate, spatial computing, etc.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

Mucker Lab

JULY 11, 2023

Understanding the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) A good way to think about search is essentially as roadmaps drawn by targeted keywords, which branches outward to create intersections that become digital real estate - websites, media, ads, and more. Image and Video Packs: Rows of images or videos related to the search query.

SEO 78

SEO Technical Review HTML Software Review 78

Cracking the Code

MAY 2, 2019

Team building is top of mind for any start-up founder or exec. Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company.

Part-Time VPE 48

Part-Time VPE Engineer Retention API 48

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year. Social media is not rocket science. The timing of cash flow is everything.

Burn Rate 310

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Salary Angel Investor 310

VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Ineze (“Here it is”-in Hebrew), is an Internet search-engine, which aims to reduce the amount of time people spend looking for products, by yielding fine-tuned results based on user needs. Each of the founders has a strong technological background. Along with Omar Shamir (Product Indexing), they founded Ineze in 2008.

Search 84

Search Product Technical Review Software Review 84

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site.

New York City 246

New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 246

The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Kevin Wu, co-founder and CEO of job search optimization program Pathrise , says “Digital marketer roles are some of the most in-demand positions in the tech industry.” SEO – Search Engine Optimization for Online Marketing Concept. How many searches have been guided by promoted content? And he’s right.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review PPC SEM Marketing 78

View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1 On Launching and Finding Early Traction.

Founder 120

Founder Las Vegas Entrepreneur Cofounder 120

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2018

by Jamie FitzHenry, founder of Grizzly. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) can be challenging for many businesses, however it can be even more puzzling for startups. If your business is only ranking on page 4 or 5 on a search engine, it is practically guaranteed that valuable leads are not finding you.

SEO 100

SEO Startup Metrics Engineer 100

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

by Jennifer Sultzaberger, founder of #vidit. If you want to be found online today, you need to be thinking in terms of online visibility not traditional Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Although it is still important to be positioned well on a search engine page, the Internet has changed dramatically.

SEO 160

SEO Social Media Social Network United States 160

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Mastering SEO in the Age of AI written by Tosin Jerugba 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 Stephan Spencer, an acclaimed SEO expert and founder of net Concepts, an interactive agency specializing in search engine optimization.

SEO 60

SEO ChatGPT Technical Review Search 60

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

I worked with engineering to try to find product/market fit ( big endian or little endian ?) and get the chip designed into companies building engineering workstations – powerful personal computers, all while trying to refine how to find the right markets, customers, and sales process. Declare them cultural co-founders.

Part-Time VPE 333

Part-Time VPE Employee Cofounder Hiring 333

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Depending on the composition of the founding team, you might or might not have near-term holes in certain functions at the exec level – e.g. you’ll most likely need to bring on a CTO/VP of Engineering shortly after the seed round if you don’t have a technical co-founder.

Part-Time VPE 195

Part-Time VPE Seed Stage CTO Hire Forecast 195

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site.

New York City 315

New York City Silicon Valley Startup Bootstrapping 315

Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

Entrepreneurs have to get really comfortable with rejection, especially as a first-time founder. This is what most founders do. More often than not, whatever it is you are building will require a complementary skill set, whether that’s business/finance, sales/marketing, or design/engineering. Solve the rest later.

Entrepreneur 132

Entrepreneur Lean Colorado Engineer 132

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2014

The insights given to you by Google help you create a great user experience which can lead to more and more people talking about your site, sharing your content, and linking to you (all of which help with your search engine rankings). The Webmaster Tool products give you insight into how a search engine interacts with your site.

SEO 169

SEO Engineer Search Flash 169

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

by Russell Wallace, founder and CEO of 29 Prime, Inc. In fact, 4 out of 5 consumers use search engines to get information about businesses, products, and services. Believe it or not, search engines will actually treat the two listings as two completely separate businesses.

Technical Review 181

Technical Review Social Media Washington Algorithm 181

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year. Social media is not rocket science. The timing of cash flow is everything.

Burn Rate 223

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 223

Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2012

Search Versus Execution. However, we now know that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. If your business model is unknown – that is just a set of untested hypotheses- you are a startup searching for a repeatable business model. Organization.

Search 320

Search Business Model Customer Development Agile 320

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

Customer Development 131

Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2019

by Christian Carere, founder of Digital Ducats Inc. The websites that have been around longer than you have the advantage of having earned more trust with the search engines (provided they haven’t been penalized for less than scrupulous web practices). Optimize for voice search. Compete for the featured snippet.

Search 118

Search Engineer Metrics SEO 118

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

Software Review 164

Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM. Where are the charitable foundations, business schools, and hospitals named after the founder of GM? The founder of what became General Motors was William (Billy) Durant. And a founder of Neuralink a brain-computer interface startup.

Michigan 268

Michigan Cofounder Stock Forecast 268

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

by Neil Sheth, founder of Your Brand Found. Encourage Google and other leading search engines to get to know your website by ensuring that you land in pole position on page one of their search results. The simple fact is that search engines do not want to deliver outdated information.

Marketing 122

Marketing Audience SEO Web 122

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The story starts with a company you probably never heard of – Engineering Research Associates. While it seemed like a good idea and had the Navy’s backing, the founders got turned down for funding by companies, investment bankers and everyone, until they talked to John Parker. Why Minneapolis/St. Parker agreed to invest.

Minnesota 281

Minnesota Engineer Minneapolis Silicon Valley 281

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

If we’re a B2B company selling into brick-and-mortar retail environments, and we’re looking to find an audience of retail executives, we’ll start with a simple Google search. The audience size identified is encouragingly large, and the frequently used phrases and words (brick mortar, retail, founder) align directly with our target audience.

Reputation 134

Reputation Audience Management Social Media 134

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

For example, in hospitality and digital marketing; hospitality and entrepreneurship; hospitality and IT, hospitality and engineering, just to name a few. The search of capable manpower in the city he lives in is a constant challenge. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is a classic liberal arts and a psychology major student.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Singapore Artificial Inteligence Myanmar 154

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2022

To check out the Google founders, and because I still see so many business plans that are modeled after Google (more search engines, and more billion dollar growth models), I had to take a look at the classic book about them a while back, called “ Inside Larry & Sergey’s Brain ,” by Richard L. They break the mold.

Startup 328

Startup .Net Advertising Search 328

ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2023

The way in which small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) approach online marketing is being revolutionized by SpeedyBrand, a cutting-edge startup that is a pioneer in the field of search engine optimization (SEO) content creation. This difficulty is something that Jatin Mehta, one of the co-founders of SpeedyBrand, is aware of.

Generative AI 127

Generative AI SEO Artificial Inteligence Forecast 127

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2015

by Azhar Katib, founder of WebSell Solutions Ptd Ltd. While the numerous online marketing methods offer are wide spread of options today, simple Pay-Per-Click Ads on search engines can deliver the best bang for your buck. Why choose Search Engines for your marketing. Simple, isn’t it! Getting Started. A Website.

Small Business 100

Small Business Marketing Campaign PPC 100

View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2016

How do you build your engineering/dev team from the ground up? Let’s make a few assumptions: You are a founder, you have your idea, and you have your money. What kind of engineers do you need? What kind of engineers do you need? Now consider a few high-level categories of engineers: Front-End. It is just you.

Engineer 149

Engineer Hiring Non-Compete Dividend 149

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

What I saw reminded me of some of the best and worst things I did as a founder. Tossing their agile development process and at times their entire business model in the air, the company would go into fire-drill mode and engineering would start working on whatever his latest insight was. A Pivot a Week. We’re building the wrong product!”

Founder 316

Founder Cofounder Advisory Board Burn Rate 316

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2012

by Kent Campbell, SEO expert and founder of InternetReputationManagement. Negative SEC filings are bad enough, but having one show up on the first page of a Google search for your brand when someone is deciding whether or not to do business with you is much worse. They’re here. Unmanaged, these sites can sink your company online.

Reputation 235

Reputation Management SEC SEO 235

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2014

by Jean Dobey, founder and CEO of Hibe. Entering your name into a search engine can be an eye-opening experience. Portraying yourself in the best light is a must, particular as, according to a CareerBuilder survey, 48% of hiring managers use Google or other search engines to research candidate s. Google yourself.

Social Media 174

Social Media Media Social Network Engineer 174

blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Software Engineering 40