YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

If the investment is what’s causing you to back out, remember, this is an investment that will pay dividends far into the future. Publishing high-quality content consistently can help your website become more search-engine friendly and boost your credibility among prospects. Have a Simple Online Marketing Strategy.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Everybody that comes into the space force will learn coding and adopt digital engineering standards as our as our standard for acquisition. First, one of the big things we’re doing is adopting digital engineering as our standard. And it’s more than just the digital engineering of the thing.

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Technology United States Iraq Operations 284

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. Or the huge dividends that Santa Barbara got from building GoToMeeting that sold for a nice price to Citrix. TechStars was a great method.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2019

Adopting a holistic digital marketing approach pays obvious dividends to a company’s bottom line. Search Engine Optimization (SEO). That sort of exposure requires search engine optimization, or SEO. The best way to learn and use Google Ads is by taking the search engine’s courses.

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Marketing Social Media SEO Entrepreneur 109

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2020

There are 2 main types of stocks, dividends and growth stocks. Dividend stocks are sold by public organisations to shareholders and typically pay out between 3 and 5% quarterly, either as cash or additional shares. These types of stocks are also the riskier of the two.

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Affiliate Stock Dividend Portfolio 178

ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

A page that’s well-matched for user intent can outperform those that optimize primarily for search engines—in search and after the click. IP address) can provide clues to search engines, as can search history, time of year, or time of day. Look at the search engine results page (SERP). Geography (i.e. A manual process works.

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Search Aggregator New York SEO 126

View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

Joris Poort , Founder and CEO, Rescale (Software platform and hardware infrastructure to perform scientific and engineering simulations; undisclosed capital raised, per CrunchBase): We spent two and a half years writing custom software to run large-scale simulations on Boeing’s data centers.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. In contrast, large companies are often risk- averse engines – they are executing a repeatable and scalable business model that spins out the short-term dividends, revenue and profits that the stock market rewards.

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Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. In contrast, large companies are often risk- averse engines – they are executing a repeatable and scalable business model that spins out the short-term dividends, revenue and profits that the stock market rewards.

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Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Daniel Jacobson ( Twitter | LinkedIn ), is currently director of engineering for the Netflix API. Today, Netflix can be watched on more than 1,000 different device types, the vast majority of which are developed by Netflix-employed UI Engineers. He is also the co-author of APIs: A Strategy Guide.

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API Audience Dividend Programming 135

The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2019

Two engineers were working for a major engineering company in Germany which refurbished cranes and they decided to set off on their own because they had a lot of contacts. The other business partner was the engineering expert who knew how to refurbish the cranes. Case 1 – Unexpected Illness.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Pick one or two things that you want to “invest in” that pay future dividends — skills, people, networks, your own health. Experienced leadership, well-funded, and hiring in engineering, product and operations. In these few weeks left of 2020, what can you do to manage your own “I’m too old” fears? YOU GOT THIS.

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Dividend Portfolio Leadership Hiring 109

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

They will draw from their expert perspective and are capable of applying a broader spectrum of experience across many technologies as they help you plan your engineering process and culture. Some of my most satisfying projects are when we make improvements in, say, developer productivity that also pay a “security dividend”.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 4, 2018

Never ignore social media, because it could pay off dividends in the long run. Search Engine Optimization. While you’re at it, you should also make sure that you begin practicing search engine optimization. This is yet another way to get ahead without needing to spend a whole lot.

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PPC Marketing Social Media Dividend 113

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I told Sam that it would pay dividends in spades because he could focus on innovation and not put as much personal time into process & planning. We are growing faster than at any time in the company’s history (which is a testament to sales, market, product, engineering and of course the founder & ceo!)

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Operations Metrics Early Stage Non-Compete 150

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

For example, we experimented with moving the sign-up form for the newsletter from the bottom of the landing page to the top, which, as we recounted before, drove a 700 percent increase in sign-ups, massively boosting the size of our email list, which would go on to pay dividends each and every week. Open Up the Ideation Process.

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Technical Review Algorithm Channel Analytics 127

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

Thanks to Ben Reynolds, Sure Dividend ! #3- Advertisements, search engines, and social media all provide businesses with the opportunity to grow brand awareness and gain influence in the market. Plus, you're able to reach a pool of target customers that you might not have been incapable of connecting with without them.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Social Media Bootstrapping 126

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. Firefighting was part of the fun of living on the edge. Defective prototype code was as often thrown out (because customers didnt want it) as it was fixed (when customers did). And a certain amount of chaos reigned too.

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Software Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 141

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 16, 2011

It is a piece of actionable advice that if you put into practice starting next week will start paying dividends in the near future. Are you looking for great engineers? There’s a direct correlation to your future success. 5 / week = 250 / year. Here’s why it’s critical: 1. Recruiting. Talented brand sales people?

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Dividend Deal Flow Hiring Advertising 410

Up and Running

MARCH 27, 2015

Getting to the first page of Google for your keywords will pay dividends—but only if you choose keywords your clients use. If Carl focuses on conversions, he’ll win two ways: he’ll grow his business, and once he’s making some money, he can bypass the search engines and buy traffic if he needs more.

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Small Business Software Review Web Development SEO 60

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

There’s a lot of jargon that gets thrown around when it comes to Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). At heart, it means making sure your website is friendly to the search algorithms used by search engine companies. This means designing each page on your site to make it attractive to search engines.

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SEO Dividend Channel Algorithm 100

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. Every time an engineer checks in code, they are batching up a certain amount of work. I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System.

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San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment Development Team Review 161

Start Up Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

Allocate cash to savings & investments before anything the day you get your profits, pay or dividends. There is no such thing as ‘financial engineering’ It was invented by Wall street to trick you. Spend less than you earn, no matter what that amount is. The net result is happiness. They are investments in civilization.

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Dividend .Net Stock Engineer 114

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Among the many privileges I’ve had in Texas has been working with Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet and current Professor of Innovation at UT Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering). A little personal energy might pay you a dividend, and peons can easily become peers or superiors in the future.

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Georgia Dividend Atlanta Texas 48

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 9, 2017

The optimization techniques that worked a few years ago are not necessarily going to pay dividends for site owners in 2017. In the past, SEO strategy included renting links , stuffing the site with these links and using that to get a higher place in search engine results. Rented Link Building. Bookmark Services.

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SEO Dividend Engineer Search 61

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 16, 2018

We were obsessive about that, and it paid huge dividends later on. This was Paul Rogers, our first VP of Engineering and now the CTO at WhaleShark Media (book note: later renamed to RetailMeNot and I wrote about Cotter Cunningham’s amazing journey from failure to success in this Lucky7 post about resilience).

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Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Hiring Austin 48

Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2013

Last fall, I began teaching the Lean LaunchPad course at Princeton ( EGR 495: Special Topics in Entrepreneurship ) with four teams of undergraduates (ok, there were a few engineering grad students in the mix), a brave first-time LLP co-teacher (Cal Simmons), and a talented and dedicated teaching assistant (Ismaiel Yakub).

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Lean Cofounder Dividend Business Model 282

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Promoting your social media pages can boost your SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages), and that can help improve conversions, bounce rates and ultimately, organic traffic. While the above simple additions will pay dividends, your best bet is to try and increase the speeds of page loading times. Contact Information.

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Social Media Dividend Media Mobile 60

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

Our founders can run their companies profitably and pull out dividends, they can raise additional rounds, or they can decide to exit. We determine a salary cap with the founder based on a software engineer in the closest major city. Any additional funds they take out of the business are considered dividends. Other Flexible VCs.

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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

So spending time thinking about what your leadership style is, whether it’s effective and what you could do to improve it can yield dividends. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift.

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Leadership Southern California San Diego Hiring 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

But if you’re in a competitive space where you want to get a little more engineering done before the world is ready to start researching you then you may choose to delay. Having strong relationships with journalists will pay you huge dividends over the long haul and benefit your company and your career.

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Startup PR Dividend Merger 355

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

20 hardware engineers getting together to form a Syndicate. Maybe they’d throw off cash dividends for years to come. Instead a series of AngelList Syndicates could serve as complements or substitutions for local in-market dollars overseas. 2) The Bundled Expertise Syndicate. Now that would be interesting.

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Syndicate Syndication South America Seed Stage 98

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Thats when this approach can pay huge dividends. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. Reports Lets start with the reporting side of the equation. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Continuous Deployment 166

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

Those have not paid dividends for very many companies at all. Could you go down to some obscure form of engineering software company or something of that nature? For example, I know a bunch of companies that invested very heavily in chatbots over the last few years. John Jantsch: How niche can you get with that? Rand Fishkin: Yeah.

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Silicon Valley SEO Startup Technical Review 33

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The value of search engine optimization to any specific business varies, but local SEO – impacting where your business falls in Google’s local search returns – can be a huge driver for both foot traffic and online visits. Ensuring that your company actively seeks both referrals and reviews will most certainly pay dividends.

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Kansas Dividend Lead Generation SEO 74

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Kawasaki’s Law of Pre-Money Valuation: for every full-time engineer, add $500,000; for every full-time M.B.A., A good way to think about valuation in seed/pre-seed is to reverse engineer the next round. Our goals, their goals. ValuatIon should be a function of value, not ego. subtract $250,000. Guy Kawasaki, author.

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Founder Startup Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 187

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The most recent in Brazil for the launch of the Portuguese version of The Referral Engine – Máquina de Indicações ). If you can create referral messages and campaigns that match the motivations of your most active referral sources and keep the idea of referral generation close at hand it can pay long-term dividends.

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Brazil Dividend Engineer Programming 63