YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2019

New startups frequently struggle with their approach to marketing. But at the same time, they need access to a marketing/advertising strategy with the potential to win them some early clients and help them grow far into the future. Search engine optimization (SEO) could be the perfect solution to address all these challenges at once.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Cost per click (CPC).

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved. Marketing people love to swim with other marketing gurus.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 of US social network users) according to Falcon.io’s 2021 digital marketing trends. Ark Invest forecasts that by 2030 the AR market could scale from under a $1 billion today to $130 billion. Fortnite alone made $1.8 Immersive ar/vr/xr.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2024

Whether you’re searching for that funding to kickstart your dreams or hoping to attract the attention of venture capitalists, the startup investment landscape resembles a vibrant city. Also make sure to handle your finances with the expertise of a leader capturing market opportunities and strengthening your position.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Working to understand why and how things connect is the secret to great market presence. There is a perfect formula out there for all our client’s marketing needs — and it’s our job to help them discover it. If you search for Rantizo now, the first non-company result is on page 5 of the search. 14- Act of writing.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

My partners and I would be thrilled to support this founder in general, but we don’t have enough conviction about the market opportunity he and his co-founders are pursuing to proceed with an investment. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. What’s Your Favorite Future? Previous Entries.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. What They Do: Travel search engine. How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Founding Date: 2004.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

You’ve updated your brand or marketing strategy. You’ve updated your brand or marketing strategy. Brand and marketing strategies are fluid, living things. If you’ve changed your marketing strategy or have recently undergone a rebranding, it is critical to update your website. You want more effective content.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

GrabCAD has used search optimization to drive the bulk of it’s user acquisition, very similar to the way Yelp and others did. InsightSquared is tackling business intelligence software (hardly a sexy market) with an incredibly sexy product that incorporates Facebook style timelines and other features. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. Shama Kabani , Marketing Zen. Filtering your search by pedigree is a good start. Have an account? This can’t be just a job for them. Look for passion and skill!

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I have seen this criticism at various places where this recap is syndicated on a weekly basis, as well as in certain random forums on the internet. The entire startup ecosystem is interested in the 1% of entrepreneurs who are fundable, have already defined strong market opportunities, and are already well on their way.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

Podcasting as a marketing channel. Some marketers may also benefit by refining speaking and interviewing skills in a lower-risk environment than on a stage. My personal interest in podcasting, however, is how it dovetails beautifully with voice search. Podcasts’ popularity means opportunity—and competition.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

by Rhonda Adams, president and founder of PlanningShop and author of “ Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies “ Small business owners never seem to have enough hours in the day to complete all the tasks on our to-do lists — developing new products, searching for new customers, training employees, closing the sale.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Since the 90s, Toronto-based entrepreneur Eldon Mascoll has been making his mark in the media industry, working in areas that include television production, film, marketing and advertising. What advice do you have for other entrepreneurs who are working to break into the market with their own business ideas? It’s gone beyond search.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). You have to decide how hard to help with downstream marketing for your deals. I guess if you’re in high-volume, low-differentiation mode perhaps this is efficient for you.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. .

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Companies will always create and present content but with increasing frequency they are now capturing, tagging with metadata, and syndicating across their various assets content which is created by people other than those who work for the company. They literally embody the principle of using your customers are your marketing force.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

In this age of relationships, you, the entrepreneur, are a very important element of your new brand, and it’s never too early to start marketing the value of your expertise, insights and ideas. Blogging will improve your site search engine ranking. It's the first step to full use of social media marketing.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Groupon’s become a juggernaut in the immense local marketing space. How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. A good read on his philosophy and how they intend to continue building the company.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Since these guidelines were released, many webmasters have outsourced copywriting efforts in an effort to ensure that they are able to syndicate high-quality blog and article content; there’s nothing wrong with this, but it is simply necessary to avoid looking at this outsourcing as a useless expense that you can find for cheap.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. .

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Brandanew

JULY 29, 2016

Get in touch with us to make YOUR content marketing SEXY! Not black hat, but good old marketing techniques. When those thousands of people search for the term that you have an ideal solution for, they get your solution. The most targeted traffic comes through search, and the way to get better search placements IS backlinks.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Like any economic transaction, the pricing of a startup’s seed round ultimately depends on the equation of perceived supply (in this case, the quality of the team, product, and market opportunity) and the demand (how many competitive alternatives there are to any one given funder, including non-consumption). Lower-Than-Market Value.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The CTO is in constant contact with keycustomers and is prominently involved in market research. Big Thinker – The CTOs inthis model mainly spend their time evaluating how technology can be usedinternally to developed new business models and business lines, and how topreempt competitor’s attempts to use technology to disrupt the markets.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 12, 2012

And because several of these websites are looked upon favorably by Google and other search engines, oftentimes prospective customers will find your press releases on their sites when they search relevant terms. This syndication gets your release read by many more reporters and/or prospective customers.

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Syndicate Syndication Distribution Warrant 101

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Using Content As Your Voice of Strategy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. It not only touches all aspects of your marketing these days but of your business as well. In my opinion (and I’m not alone), the most important element when it comes to building a long-term, sustainable marketing system is content.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Shifting online display and search budgets towards online video is a major part of this astounding growth, but the market’s real upside is offline budgets. The market is moving forward in terms of matrices - shifting from CTRs and CPMs to Cost Per Engagement and Cost Per View. Still, it’s far from fulfilling its potential.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

This behavior has marketers pledging to up their demand generation budgets. Demand generation combines marketing tactics, strategies and programs to create awareness and drive interest in your products or services. But isn’t that the role of any marketer? Demand generation owes a lot to inbound marketing.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

Josh Brooks, who ran marketing for MySpace for three years, is the founder of a company that lets users take photos form their phones, and then use those photos to send postcards in the real world to their friends and family. pre money valuation and planned to use the money to market the app. POSTCARDS ON THE RUN.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2017

SYNDICATES : Syndicates are single-purpose investment funds. Syndicates are comprised of a leader, which is usually an experienced and influential angel investor, along with a number of other investors, or backers, which may not have the same connections or influence as the leader.

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Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

We love meeting entrepreneurs who take this blank canvas approach when thinking about disrupting markets. This is how new markets get created. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. What’s Your Favorite Future? Our tools were once large and caused local change, now they fit in our pockets and cause.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 10, 2010

In it, he describes our philosophy around seed investing and differentiates it from what others (but not everyone) in the market is doing. This mapped with some of the ideas Niel was thinking about as well and over a series of months we tossed around a number of different ideas in search marketing.

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Syndicate Syndication Due Diligence SEM 74

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 3, 2011

We have a very clear thematic strategy that we’ve discussed openly, along with a few other key principles such as being willing to invest anywhere in the US and being syndication agnostic. At dinner we zoned in on all of the current activity in early stage tech. Our conversation shifted to 2015.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

YouTube Marketing and Analytics Framework for Success. Some have even tried original content (a la GoPro ), but originality without key integrations into the overall marketing strategy and media mix is hard to pull off/sustain. What's advertising/marketing/participation on YouTube? YouTube is magnificent. How cool is that!

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 5, 2011

There’re lots of reasons why we’re pleased to be involved, from the market opportunity and product and beyond, but of course team is central for all startup investments. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Objective Logistics just closed a $1.5M What’s Your Favorite Future? Previous Entries.

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Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Twitter never seemed to really take the offense in PR and marketing. Right now the most important role to hire in Twitter would be a seasoned marketing professional who could proactively change the conversation about Twitter and educate people about its significance as an information sharing tool. I guess it wasn’t in their DNA.

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