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5 Things to Compare When Choosing an eCommerce Platform

Up and Running

Plain and simple, if you want to enter any aspect of the online business world, you are going to need a surface level understanding of search engine optimization—at the very least. To put it simply, it’s everything that goes into making sure your site is visible to search engines like Google. What is SEO ?

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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

ConversionXL

Topics are an important feature for social networks, just as genres are for music or categories for ecommerce sites. In each case, an extension to the existing solution was shipped in a search engine–friendly way and now drives a lot of organic traffic, while also improving the product. Quora did just that. Quora Spaces.

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

www.drowningamerican.com

What We’re Doing: We’re currently setting the groundwork for an innovative educational web application that will eventually fuse with social networking. In the longer term we will compete with social networks and online advertising. Quick question: How did you decide on 3-5% equity for the first engineer hire?

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How I Blog

Duct Tape Marketing

I have a pretty rough idea of what an upcoming week is going to entail, but I leave room to stumble on an emerging idea, change in some social network or the occasional rant as I consume content. pMachine later morphed into a tool that’s still available called Expression Engine. Blogging platform.

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Startup Launch Checklist

Spencer Fry

Lots of customers want to reach you on Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks. I also recommend setting it up at /blog rather than blog.app.com because of the Search Engine Optimization implications of having it in a folder rather than as a sub domain. It's not enough to simply provide an email address nowadays.

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

Austin Startup

The web has gone social and is rapidly going semantic. The trend for social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc) is to expose their graph interfaces so new applications can automatically inspect and bring new value to undiscovered social patterns. 4) social network anaysis enabled by Annotations and linked data.

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Tech Wildcatters 2011 Pitch Day

The Startup Lawyer

Proxomo radically increases a developer’s productivity in developing web and mobile applications by providing an integrated collection of backend services into a single RESTful (JSON, XML) API. SparkCrowd is a mobile social games company with a social mission to help make meaningful connections in the real world — not just online.

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