A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

Every day, 5% of the entire online world visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform. And everyone else at WP Engine would tell you the same thing. So to everyone at WP Engine, let me repeat the message from one year ago: Look what we did ! We just announced a few more things. Period, full-stop.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 20, 2021

As we are approaching the end of another unprecedented year, it’s time to look back and share our top blog posts from the past 12 months. And if you haven’t seen it already, you can read our Year in Review post, where we reflect on the incredible pace of the start-up market in 2021. . Our top three topics from the year: .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. This is NOT the same as or better than Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Their computers then merge your ads with search results when users search words imply an interest in your products.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I chose to hire engineers from within each of our target markets and set up “Steve’s one month MBA course for engineers.”

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 19, 2022

Data engineering is the process of transforming and preparing data for analysis. This process can be complex, and it’s essential to have a clear understanding of the different steps involved to successfully implement a data engineering pipeline. This blog post will discuss the various stages of data engineering.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

A great way to tell others about your brand and about what you have to offer is to start blogging. Blogging is your gateway to communicating with the outside world and reaching out to potential customers. Reasons to use blogs to benefit your startup include: 1. Giving your business an air of authority in the industry.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Here, in no particular order, are the top 16 small business marketing blogs you should read in 2019. crowdspring Marketing Blog. Hubspot Marketing Blog. GoDaddy Garage Blog. Neil Patel’s Blog. The blog covers entrepreneurship, business management, and business strategy. Social Triggers. Noobpreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Yet it always amazes me that I can find two different startups, seemingly working on the same problem, with one having a burn rate several times higher than the other. Social media is not rocket science.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice. But two years after Google came to the fore in 1998, Google became the number one search engine and “Googling” has become synonymous with web search.

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Rembrandt Communications

JUNE 1, 2020

Do You Really Need to Have a Blog? You hear all about people posting blogs. Maybe you’ve tried blogging without success? Well, a blog (short for web log) may be the secret tool you need to boost awareness and sales fast… without spending a dime! A blog is simply a way to provide unique content to your target market.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Read on to gain insights on how to create digital publicity through search engine optimization. Search Engine Optimization for Digital Publicity. On the other hand, search engine optimization entails the venture ranking high in the search engines. Sharing content to blogs that your target audience is prevalent in.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2012

These blogs offer a look into great ideas for growing and improving in your role as a manager, creating a better workplace and getting more results from the people you manage. Get inspired by these 50 blogs, listed in no particular order, that can show you where you’re doing a great job already, and where you might be able to improve a bit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

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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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Introducing The Commitment Engine. As you can see from the image here, my third book – The Commitment Engine – Making Work Worth It is just about ready to go. The Commitment Engine hits the shelves Oct 11. And, I would like to give you a free copy! A bit more on that in a minute, but first, what’s the book about?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In the year 2022, would blogs still be useful? In this day and age of social media, is it worthwhile to devote time and resources to your corporate blog or to start one. Blogging became a popular business internet strategy a few years ago. Blogging is still a powerful marketing tool. Nothing has changed since then.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

SEO – Search Engine Optimization for Online Marketing Concept. This includes creating content like blog posts, videos, social media posts, and more. Next, they optimize the content with keywords to rank highly in the Google search engine results page (SERP). Is it any wonder they’re essential?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

In a recent blog post , he argues that it’s not just costs that are at historic lows. So, too, is the level of competence required to engineer a product. In other words, even an engineering nobody can start a company. Engineers, however, were relatively cheap. No Problem! Hardware was expensive. infrastructure].”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2019

I have found that publishing a regular blog can give you an edge in making all this happen. One of these is blogging, to let people know about your brand, provide links to supportive articles, and generate back-links to your content from other sites. Your blog followers will be your best customers.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering? This time I thought I’d try and address engineering talent. Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team. The VP Engineering aspires to manage teams. Raising Venture Capital. Angel Topics. Entrepreneur DNA.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 24, 2022

This blog post will discuss some of the most effective methods of promoting your startup. It should also be optimized for search engines so that potential customers can easily find it. In addition to a website, you should also have an active blog where you can share relevant and useful information about your product or service.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2024

Select Globally Renowned Brands Sticking with drone part manufacturers boasting hard-earned global reputations provides the greatest assurance of receiving well-engineered products worth the premium investment. But once satisfied with provider reputation, refurbished presents a viable path toward upgrading drones at reduced expense.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

If you’re moving slowly or have yet to implement search engine optimization (SEO) strategies as part of your overall marketing efforts, you’re falling behind your competitors. In that way, paid campaigns (like search engine marketing/ppc) can align nicely with SEO-focused campaigns. Image Source: SEO Linkbuilding.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 14, 2017

Create a Referral Engine That Works Every Day written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. It’s imperative that you teach people the best way to refer you and that you teach your clients how to build referrals (hint: showing them this blog post may be a good place to start). Teach referral generation.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

There are so many reasons to consider starting a blog. You may want to completely replace your career with blogging. You may even have a traditional business and be looking for new ways to engage with customers and be more present in search engines. From the beginning it is a good idea to have a blogging schedule.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2020

Local Search Engine Optimization. As stated earlier, many individuals will find your law firm through a search engine. Start a blog. I know it sounds odd at first, but starting a blog is an excellent way of growing your criminal law firm. How does starting a blog help? Provide quality customer service. Conclusion.

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Diego Basch

APRIL 28, 2012

[Originally posted on July 25, 2011 on the IndexTank blog, now down. There’s a lot of superstition in engineering interviews, and here’s where I need to pull my credentials. I’ve been interviewing software engineers since the 90s. The point of an engineering interview is to figure out if you want to hire a person or not.

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Rembrandt Communications

JUNE 26, 2013

An SEO secret that boosts online awareness fast You have probably noticed the thousands of blogs online from big businesses, Mom-and-Pop stores and individuals. However, if you are not blogging, [.]. Sales SEO Blogs content search engine otpimization SEO blogs'

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Tyrone Shum has participated in both my Blog Mastermind and Membership Site Mastermind programs. he went on and has built himself a successful blog and last year launched a membership site too, so he’s a real action taker. Recently, I saw a poll on a very popular blog asking if they outsourced any of their blogging.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Businesses shouldn’t look at blogging as an afterthought. For one, your business blog allows for better branding and recognition. Generally, a blog is more than just a great way to educate your audience. If you’re out to grow your brand’s reach online, you will need to invest in blogging. Know your target audience.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Engineering/QA. Better to do personal outreach to blogs/local media. Start a blog. After friends/family, there are professionals that can make a huge difference.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2019

I’m back from a month off from blogging. Blogging has been a daily habit for me during the week. ” This is a private blog using an ancient technology where she uses a writing stylus on bound parchment. .” The daily blogging was a chore. In early July, I decided to take a month off from blogging.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

One of the dominant powers in modern online entrepreneurship is blogging, as businesses were quick to realize that they should focus time and energy on content marketing. The best part of blogging is its smooth, friendly and engaging tone which appeals to readers and the targeted demographic. Ignore blogging at your own peril.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 22, 2023

This could include informative articles on vehicle models, service specials, or a monthly blog. Using these keywords throughout the web page helps search engines match users with businesses that offer what they need. This could include blogs, helpful guides, or video content centered around keywords relevant to the auto industry.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2018

In this article, we are going to talk about 4 ways you can use your blog to bring in new customers. Before you start trying to make money online with your blog, you need to define your goals. If you want to become a top authority in your niche , you want to blog about the most important topics in your industry.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 2, 2015

7 Steps to Optimize Your Blog Posts Like a Pro written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. I’m not a web design guru; I’m no software engineer or web developer. I’m not a web design guru; I’m no software engineer or web developer. Step 4: Proofread. Write your SEO title.

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