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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

Both Sides of the Table

Let’s say you have a marketing department with an incredibly talented leader who knows SEO, SEM, social media and how to hit the ball off the cover on press coverage. One of my favorite sayings in this area comes from a portfolio company, RingRevenue , who like to say “ease of use = use and use = revenue.&#

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). And these ideas have ways of seeping into board discussions with portfolio companies as in, “have you ever thought about trying A, B or C?&# But life doesn’t end. Life goes on.

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17 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Leverage Networking in Business

Hearpreneur

Dr. John Timmerman, VP Operations, Mercy Health, who reached out to me recently from his LinkedIn network. If you are looking at building a board portfolio – this skill is essential because most board appointments don’t make it to recruiters. Thanks to Richa Pathak, SEM Updates ! 1- Begin conversations.

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Cracking The Code: Getting the most of your online marketing: the In.

Cracking the Code

Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. Labels: internet , Portfolio. Portfolio. (3). on a scale of 1-4). on a scale of 1-4). The videos can be watched at Bessemer Online Marketing Portal (the other materials are not public). Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 8:53 PM. 8 comments: David Dalka said.

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Stealth mode is back. Long live stealth mode!

VC Adventure

After some hazing from my Foundry partners about several of the companies that I work with remaining silent about their operations (and in some cases off of our website so as not to attract attention to the fact that they’ve been funded) I wrote a post on the topic here. To be clear, we weren’t completely secret about it.

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Trada – from the beginning

VC Adventure

At the end of his post Brad lists out the companies in the Foundry portfolio that started as seed investments ( AdMeld , Gnip , Lijit , Mandlebrot , Next Big Sound , Standing Cloud , and Trada ). With the foundation of our operating philosophy in tact we turned our attention to what this new business should do.

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Top Platforms for Freelancing Newbies

Transformify

You need to be careful in choosing the website where you’ll build your portfolio because you might end up wasting time, effort, and money without getting any clients. Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. This website operates opposite of Upwork. Teaching and Tutoring. Freelance Writing and Copywriting. Creative Design.