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Sustainable Strategies for Internet Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

You have to be found and favored by search engines. Search engines. If you web site is not optimized for search engines (SEO), all your online content and marketing efforts are wasted. Engage your audience with social media. Social media is more than the “Big 4” of Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

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7 Strategies For Beating The Failure Odds Online

Startup Professionals Musings

You have to be found and favored by search engines. Search engines like Google are still the primary method for finding information on the Internet. If your web site is not optimized for search engines (SEO), all your online content and marketing efforts are wasted. Engage your audience with social media. Do them all.

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A Step-By-Step Guide On How To Build A Profitable Niche Content Website

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Niche content sites, as I call them, are static websites that are rich in content that are well optimized so that they attract heavy natural or organic search engine traffic for free. The business model is simple. This initial step often makes or breaks people who attempt to make money from this business model.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook. I use Diigo , a social bookmarking tool, to keep a record of useful websites. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem.

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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

Up and Running

Our business model was Pinterest. We were doing Social bookmarking around health and wellness products. It goes to show you that the business model was good but we just … We’re not the right team. Don’t try and all the sudden add in search engine optimization and whatever else to the mix.