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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Africa Travel was established over 25 years ago, so there was no such thing as search engine optimisation back then. However, we have found our name to be a valuable asset in the world of SEO; the name itself is a keyword that our customers search for, making it easy for us to rank in the search engine results.

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Why Content Personalization Is Not Web Personalization (and What to Do About It)

ConversionXL

Some products were given accolades like “Most Popular” or “Best Seller” What’s interesting is the use of the word “Buy” in “What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?” Let’s say you’re a distributed startup team frustrated with your web meeting software.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

He said that there remains a very healthy market for “data oriented&# software companies because the world is moving more toward measurability and software companies with differentiated IP often get a premium in the market. Company plans to use money to expand inventory and distribution capabilities, and build more social features.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

A liquidation preference means that the investors receive their investment back (plus dividends) prior to a distribution of the proceeds to stockholders. The investor may also ask for a participation in which the investors receive some additional multiple of their investment prior to distribution of proceeds to stockholders.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Most of the items had been bought for the novelty value, anyway. You NEED to find people who will ALL BE ON THE SAME PAGE about what content it what, and NOT rely on your customers to rate items for you. They could pull what you did, and rape peoples inventories of items, but they don't. peer review is NOT working.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

Try going for a week without using a computer, smartphone, search engine, ecommerce, social media account, SMS, private message or email, to name a few services. So it makes sense that we all use the same social media network and a single search engine that learns and gets better based on every search that is entered into it.

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7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences

Occam's Razor

They use geo/ip to work out where I am. Of course there is still the search box on top of the page. Hovering over them brings up focused small sub menus (unlike sub menus with 900 items each for NM, NO). So like every other human on the planet I go to my favorite search engine and type in "ADT Security Plans."

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