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FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Mobilize Your SEO: Making the Most Out of the Mobile Search Opportunity | SEOmoz – [link]. Mobilize Your SEO: Making the Most Out of the Mobile Search Opportunity | SEOmoz – [link]. Hire slow, fire fast” is not only overused–it’s also complete b t.” How should one go about pricing their software product?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Similarly, it probably makes sense for everyone to take advantage of SEO (hey, its nearly-free traffic). But its not really viral growth, even when its exponential.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. How did you address that?

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OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. Or you can find seed-stage investors who will give you the money to hire a developer. You have two avenues open to you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news. Take a look and let me know what you think. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM. Im on the team that released one of the Taxi apps, and we agree that the "SEO" and placement on the App Store can sometimes leave users with insufficient or inaccurate information to make decisions. Hey Eric, very interesting post.

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