Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

What most people don’t realize is that, according to new research , 90% of search engine users rarely look at the paid results. Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. As a result, unfounded hockey-stick graphs and unicorn promises give way to financial fluency, realistic expectations, frank conversations about what a business can credibly achieve, and transparency. . Flexible VC: Compensation-based.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

Once objectives are identified and prioritized, your podcasting plan should outline strategies and tactics, which include format, frequency, duration, host/s, point of view, guests, research, syndication, and marketing. podcast directories) pick up and syndicate your podcasts for free via RSS feeds. From there, podcatchers (i.e.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 22, 2013

Editors Note: This is syndicated guest post by Walter Chen , co-founder of iDoneThis, an easy way for your team to sync up on its daily progress. Amazon became known as a company whose engineers were intense and elite. What’s more —with an anti-pitch, you’ll stick out from the hiring crowd.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

They have hundreds, if not thousands, of engineers, world-class design studios, subject matter experts from supply chain to manufacturing. Others follow independent financial lead investors and most require that independent investors be part of the syndicate. They invest alongside financial VCs. Some corporate funds now lead rounds.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

When you know what your monthly themes are, all of a sudden tools, articles, and conversations take on new meaning and seem to somehow organize themselves for the benefit of your ongoing, long-term approach. Plus, search engines love blog content which can help boost your SEO. What types of content build trust?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 21, 2021

If there’s a page with low quality or out of date content, it’s unlikely to convert visitors and can hurt your reputation according to Google and other search engines. When the page lacks conversion potential (e.g. For publishers who syndicate content. But not all of our web pages need to rank. How to add the robots tag.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 20, 2015

10x, as in “10x Engineer,” is a well-trod expression used to suggest there are classes of people who are so much better than average that the results you get from them are an order of magnitude higher. If you just need the money, stick unknown angels in an AngelList Syndicate so they have more limited information rights.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

If you rely on search engine traffic, conversion optimization starts before visitors get to your site. Why sitelinks matter for conversions. Google’s own research has shown that, compared to non-branded keywords, brand keywords have a 2x higher conversion rate. How do search engines choose sitelinks?

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

This is excellent news, and is one of the most important ways that we are going to get the growth engine humming again in this country. Below is an interview I did with one such entrepreneur (thanks for our friends and OpenView for helping with the filming and syndication). Check out the full video here: [youtube=[link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

That show daily turned into the Red Bull, which now has two million subscribers and then all the videos and the syndication and they’re having The New York Times and Wall Street Journal pay them money for some of their content. They have more skews than Amazon.com, they sell electronics geared to engineers. Robert Rose: No.

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

there is the 7 day full functioning Free trial so you can test it again at any time mate It costs me a lot of money to provide this for free for 7 days to people, though the conversion from free trial to full membership is great, so makes it worthwhile etc. Its easy to test it again to see this for yourself. Best of luck mate.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

A talk by an Adobe representative about their experience with Lattice Engines offers a high-level overview of how predictive analytics can identify and qualify accounts and targets for ABM. Lattice Engines is one of several other end-to-end entrants in the ABM software market. As Watt contends , ABM focuses on macro-conversions (i.e.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

With science and engineering breakthroughs ingrained in the fabric of Houston’s economy, the region has become a thriving hub of digital technology talent. was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

It’s unlikely that you’ve got the budget for nationally syndicated ads or a commercial during the Super Bowl. For more on this, read Grow Your Small Business With These 7 Website Design Best Practices and 13 Proven Ways To Optimize Small Business Website Conversions.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. I use the vendors of PE/VC investing data I listed above to track the interests of potential private equity/VC coinvestors, and selectively introduce investee companies as we build out a syndicate. . Fincura specializes in serving lenders.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Basically started as somebody of how do we take photos of cars and the pricing and descriptions of the cars, and put it all in one place, but then syndicate it. They’ve come light years from there, that’s for sure. We built a product two years ago that’s been very successful for us. It was a huge piece of the puzzle for us.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Join the conversation by adding Mashables Pete Cashmore to your Circles on Google+ Close Welcome to Mashable! Engineering, physics and computer science majors were the most likely to start a company, while nursing, administration and social work majors were the least likely. Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 14, 2017

So doing that, you know there’s advance, there’s royalties, there’s all those things too but you don’t have to worry about marketing at all, there was never a single marketing conversation that I ever had being part of the academic press route. And you can see the snowball impact that would have.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Join the conversation by adding Mashables Pete Cashmore to your Circles on Google+ Close Welcome to Mashable! While all of these factors are true to an extent, the truth of the matter is that the reduced costs of hardware and software are easily offset by the expense of engineers and experienced business people. All Rights Reserved.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

Austin is a melting pot where musicians, artists, professors, engineers, entrepreneurs and moguls live in harmony. “Keep Austin Weird,” serves as the longtime unofficial city slogan, and it represents our, albeit sometimes offbeat, but always forward-thinking mentality.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 15, 2010

" I would like to know when conversion rate dips below q%, let me go see if that happened last week. " Far too often we are obsessed with conversion rates in an eCommerce context. I like an alert like this one: Tell me when I have an amazing increase in my daily revenue (not conversion!) Focus: Acquisition.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2017

If you aren’t, you can use search engines to find what experts are already sharing, and curate the best available strategies into a coherent piece of content. For important pieces, you may wish to invest a small sum to boost your content on Facebook, LinkedIn, or content syndication networks like Outbrain.

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

This is especially true for mobile commerce sites, where the conversion rates between browsers and purchasers can vary dramatically based on the platform and the method of presentation. David Eads reports that Kony Solutions sees 30% higher conversion rates for native iPhone apps versus typical mobile websites.

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

That’s how search engines know what your site is about. It’s our direct connection to the search engine giant itself, and it can give us a wealth of information about how Google is reading our website. Global Syndication Partners. World Videos Featured: Facebook. Trending Stories. That boiled down to keywords. That’s spam.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Twitter as a company has encouraged this by granting DataSift “re-syndication rights,” which means that the company can ingest the full Twitter fire hose and resell subsets of it to other parties who want to consume a smaller stream, which is more cost effective in data licenses and in IT resources needed to consume the data.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Pinterest is probably the best tool for this, given its robust database of high-quality images, but you can also use e-commerce sites like Etsy or a simple image search on one of the major search engines. Global Syndication Partners. World Videos Featured: Facebook. Trending Stories. Think You Have First World Problems? Contact Us.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Before you can even finish your pitch, people are already making judgments of your company, and bad names can be a real distraction to important conversations. Our startup creates custom vertical search and decision making engines for people or businesses with structured data. Global Syndication Partners. Trending Stories.

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