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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

First Click Free (2008). If you take a random article on The Washington Post and load it into Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test , you can see that Google has no issue crawling or rendering the content: That’s because the Google Mobile-Friendly Test uses the real Googlebot user agent and IP. Since launching a paywall on Independent.ie

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW of YouTube/Google As YouTube’s Southwest Regional Manager, Sam is responsible for generating revenue across YouTube and the Google Content Network which comprises a media network that reaches nearly 80% of all internet users worldwide. and SVP, Branded Content & Audience Creation at nitetime.net.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

In April 2008, I was introduced to Ugmode, Inc. While Zappos was doing diligence on Modista, the issue was brought up that one of other companies in this space — Like.com , founded by Munjal Shah — had filed for some IP in this area. thanks to my advisor Terry Winograd ).

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

I don’t know exactly when the agency to product transfer happened at Buddy, or at what point you can start calling yourself a software company (when service revenues dip below subscription/license revs?), 6/15/2008 – Application network of its own apps plus agency business plus ad network.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. September 11, 2008 2:06 PM Editor said. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

History repeated itself in September 2008 with that market crash. If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. History repeated itself in September 2008 with that market crash. By mid September the entire market was constipated.