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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Richard De Silva started off as a journalist with the Washington Post after growing up in D.C. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search.

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

ConversionXL

An alternative to participating in FCF, a “subscription designation,” allowed Googlebot to crawl an 80-word snippet of an article, which served as the sole source of ranking material.). News is an especially challenging vertical since no site owns a newsworthy event. Lead-ins with content in HTML or structured data for Google only.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

Not surprising with a CEO with a PhD in Math, at ESL the engineers ran the company, pursuing bleeding-edge designs in antennas, receivers and microwaves – at times hand in hand with Stanford’s engineering department. The “customers” in Washington had never seen anything like it. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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More Funding Going to Student Founders | @JFiance @TheHouseVC

Campus Entrepreneurship

From Gtown in DC: Ted Leonsis , billionaire owner of the Washington Capitals and active venture investor, made a $1 million donation to the Georgetown Entrepreneurial Initiative earlier this month with the funds dedicated to seed funding for student ventures that are working to “address problems in the world.”

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

I have a question though- do you think that most content metrics (the ebook example you mentioned) should be developed by the "author" to target their specific data, or do you think there are opportunities for a new business vertical that give these tools directly to the creator. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what.

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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

We started in North Carolina eating BBQ and enjoying the Southern culture, went through Washington D.C Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. checking out the shopping in Georgetown, saw beautiful horse country in Pennsylvania and upstate NY and headed down into the bays and coves of Connecticut filled with sailboats.

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Scale of Messaging Landscape 2017

VC Cafe

This post is just my own learning process about this subject and doesn’t cover the rapidly growing bot ecosystem or the vertical messaging apps (startups like Crew ). Jarrod Dicker from Washington Post thinks that this is kind of the end of websites (I say, not so quickly…). Today you message your friends and family mainly.