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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. This is NOT the same as or better than Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Their computers then merge your ads with search results when users search words imply an interest in your products. Tracking and performance reporting.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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3 Tips To Help Small Businesses Get More Customers In A Post-Google Search World

YoungUpstarts

Almost half of local business listings have basic errors in Name, Address and Phone number – what’s called NAP in the search engine world. Additionally, it is critical to make sure to syndicate out descriptions rich with keywords. Syndicate Content Out, Build Links In. Why wait when you are losing customers right now?

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The Market Is Hot for Code Climate, NextView’s Newest Investment

Genuine VC

I shared a link to Code Climate with a number of CTOs/VPs of Engineering in my network, both inside and outside the NextView portfolio, just asking for their quick opinion. Joining us in the syndicate are Lerer Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and Fuel Capital. But what impressed me most is what happened next. It’s indispensable.”

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

We are also seeing more investors try to be a part of syndicated A rounds for companies that are raising $5M or more and are really not what most would consider “seed” stage. As the venture capital industry has evolved, more and more seed investors are passing on traditionally “seed stage” startups because there isn’t enough traction.

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Three New Types of AngelList Syndicates I Hope to See

Hunter Walker

So far most of the top funded AngelList Syndicates look, well, not surprising. Additionally, funds such as Foundry Group and Google Ventures have taken their own approaches – the former creating a separate early stage entity , the latter encouraging their seed stage partners to create standalone personal syndicates.

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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers. You’ve seen this with companies like StackOverflow and Github in software engineering or Behance in visual design. It’s really been a pleasure for me to work with these guys.

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