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Here’s What Startups Really Need To Focus On During The Website Development Phase

YoungUpstarts

Unlike with external links, there’s no danger of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) penalties from using too many internal links,” entrepreneur Tom Rankin writes. (This includes first-time visitors who have no familiarity with the site.) It’s also helpful to have lots of internal links within your content.

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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. Late stage large regionally based funds that invest in late stage or mezzanine deals.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. I would say the norm for many early-stage companies is somewhere between 6-10 in-person meetings per year. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. ExitRound helps early stage companies identify buyers. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

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The Importance Of Having Great Content On Your Startup Website

YoungUpstarts

Consequently, Google and other search engines pick these signals. Good content that’s likely to impress search engines contains the following metrics. This user behavior sends wrong signals to search engines. This can be achieved with the help of keyword research tools and search engine suggestions.

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The Most Effective Early-Stage Growth Strategies for Emerging Businesses

ReadWriteStart

Content marketing is also effective because it has a natural synergy with search engine optimization (SEO). Writing great content, optimized for the right keywords, can increase your likelihood of ranking in relevant search engine results. Without new customers, there’s no new revenue, and therefore no engine of growth to tap into.

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Devolving From Good To Bad

SVPG

The scenario is that you are probably a later stage startup or growth stage company. Let’s say you are at a young, growth stage company, and you decide to hire a senior leader, maybe the head of product, or the head of engineering, or head of marketing, from a brand name like Oracle. Here’s the problem.