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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Smart Contracts – Powering the internet-native financial system, smart contract networks could generate fees of $450bn in 2030. Automated Root Cause Analysis – there’s an opportunity for automated root cause analysis to substantially improve incident resolution time, and the experience for engineers.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

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.

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The Rising Importance Of Images In Google Search

Duct Tape Marketing

4:45] What can search engines know about images now and how has that changed? [6:19] John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by business made simple hosted by Donald Miller and brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network business made simple, takes the mystery out of growing your business.

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

Personally, I believe that the Semantic Web will become mainstream in the next few years (I actually have a bet on this with some college friends). After reading the wonderful blogpost on the BBC’s dynamic semantic publishing system , it reminded me that the Semantic Web has two audiences: the common web user (my mom) and developers.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business). (my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor).

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Transcript of Creating Content that Ranks in Local Search

Duct Tape Marketing

They are both marketing consultants and part of the Duct Tape Marketing Consultant network. And they with a couple other consultants in the network have written a book we’re going to talk about today called Content Marketing for Local Search: Create Content That Google Loves and Prospects Devour.

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