Up and Running

MAY 3, 2021

For those not in the know, SEO refers to search engine optimization. This is the practice of helping a website appear higher in search engine results pages (SERPs) for keywords related to their specific product, service, or niche. Expertise in a specific industry vertical or process? Build a solid value proposition.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

by Cooper Hollmaier, technical SEO manager at Visiture. All you’ll need is a Google account to get started and you’ll be able to control your online presence, collect positive customer reviews, and understand your online appeal with Google My Business Insights. Cooper Hollmaier is technical SEO manager at Visiture.

Small Business 173

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

At the time we were planning a workshop for B2B tech startups from the IMEC accelerator (Ghent, Belgium) and had a chance to interview many of the companies that had signed up. Buyers became more critical due to a reduction in reosurces and as a result the entire process started to involve more people ultimately taking longer to close.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Search engines are vital for discoverability. Google’s Public Search Liaison Danny Sullivan has openly pushed back against those who want subscription-only content flagged in search results: Our automated systems try to present the best information in relation to a search topic, as people expect us to do as a search engine.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

This was in large part due to the marketing efforts of Jason that created a great top end of the funnel (100+ companies applied) and the herculean efforts of Tyler Crowley who spent days going through all of the submissions and serving up 5 very interesting companies. The two most ambitious projects were ThereNow and IQ Engines.

San Francisco 254

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

Private Equity 60

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I’ve made the acquaintance of a thought leader with her finger on the pulse of where the nation sits in terms of technological readiness to innovate. Her name is Pamela Menges, and she’s President of a high-tech start up in Cincinnati. Simply in 1970 the percentage of engineering graduates from US Universities was 5%.

Technical Review 102

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

He and Bill Lowe somehow managed to convince then CEO Frank Cary to give them a dozen engineers, a small budget, and a few months, to set up a small skunk-works called Entry Level Systems in Boca Raton, Florida, to develop a low-cost personal computer (code name “ Acorn ”). Here are a few PC-related examples: CPU speed was 4.77 mHz, now 3.0

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. Mentorship. As You Start to Mature.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 26, 2020

In the wake of COVID-19, businesses have been affected across almost every vertical. While these strategies can be planned up to a year in advance, many efforts are no longer applicable due to the various restrictions that consumers are facing. Understanding how your website performs on search engines is crucial to brand success.

Marketing 171

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

A version of this article appeared in the Harvard Business Review. But in 1904, after his first time seeing a car in Flint, Michigan, he was one of the first to see that the future was going to be in a radically new form of transportation powered by internal combustion engines. The next year, 1910, trouble hit.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Except it does it without relying on organic search engine optimization to make an impact. By having its product reviewed and linked to by industry influencer Lane Sebring , Kajabi has raised the profile of its product. And the more of them your website has, the higher it will rank in search engines, giving you more traffic.

Advertising 131

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

Technical Review 78

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SVPG

APRIL 28, 2012

Jane takes lots of notes and asks John to review what she sends him. ” Bob says this because when he reviews the launch checklist, everything is on schedule. Assured, John accepts Jane’s next meeting request to “review product positioning.” Vertical/affiliate/evangelist programs. The Problem.

Product 108

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

My wife and I both worked as mechanical engineers, so we wanted a name that paid tribute to our profession. Momentum is a term that is highly related to engineering, as it relates to motion and dynamics. Trying to name a business in the philanthropy tech space was difficult. Thanks to Marilyn Gaskell, True People Search ! #9-

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

This beta customer list includes the who's who of the tech business, and 1M/1M is very proud to continue hosting a monthly Stanzr event on an ongoing basis. It turns out a large number of consumers out there do not have dental insurance, so these special offers, reviews and ratings matter to them. I thought that was brilliant.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) Since I wasn’t an engineer, my contribution was around the team-building and fund raising. Obviously the layout of this page is more engineering/testing geared than user friendly.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

These investments include Kaggle, a startup that compels engineers to compete against each other in order to solve “hard problems,” and Continuuity, Parse, Pushd and Citus Data. The top layer of applications and services that use the innovations of the first two layers to transform vertical markets (e.g, Also on AOL Tech.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

Acelerar Technologies Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book.

Spain 115

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

From what I have seen, this is one of the few companies that can cross the elusive billion dollar mark in due course. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems. Statisco Economic Analytics.

North Carolina 116

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires. And our Director of Technical Marketing was superb at understanding customer needs and communicating them to engineering.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Meet Gu Jiawei is the CEO of Ling Technology, the brain behind a truly innovative approach helping children find their passion for reading real books, far away from tablet and TV screens. During this period he spent the majority of his time in the design and research field wondering what the future of AI technology was.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

—————- The next piece of the Secret History of Silicon Valley puzzle came together when Tom Byers , Tina Selig and Mark Leslie invited me to teach entrepreneurship in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program ( STVP ) in Stanford’s School of Engineering. How effective they were? No kidding.

Silicon Valley 203

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider. Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Now this is worth stopping and thinking about for a second.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Additionally, our products often use new technologies and require people to change their behavior, such as using a camera to talk with their friends. The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone. I think AR is that big, it’s huge.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Reviewing a competitor’s online presence helps me understand how to differentiate my client. What I’m looking for are common trends within that vertical. reviews, trust). Studying your competitors’ technology stacks can shed light on their level of maturity as a digital marketing organization.

SEO 126

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Today’s e-consumers are reaping the benefits of eCommerce’s cornerstone: Superior technological innovation. They are accustomed to more frictionless buying, easier payments, smarter recommendation engines, sharper display (product images, 3D, HD), short fulfillment time, and excellent customer service.

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

Reviewing a competitor’s online presence helps me understand how to differentiate my client. What I am looking for is common trends within that vertical. I analyze the story the competitors tell with their landing pages, their site UX, and transparency (reviews, trust). The lean, aggressive ones do. Functional Investigation.

SEO 131

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

And the odds in your favor are even higher, as most of your peers wouldn’t even get into the game due to some unspoken belief that in a meritocracy, good things will come to those who wait. And I understood engineering since I interacted with them almost daily. In reality it would be another 20 years.)

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ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2014

In an analysis of all of the most linked content on Moz.com , Inbound engineer Casey Henry found that the content with the most links also seemed to have a higher word count. Now, of course , this isn’t going to be uniform across all verticals. According to the data, the more you write, the more people stop reading. .

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 1, 2011

We believe that founding CEOs run the very best technology companies, so naturally we wanted the firm to focus on this issue. As a founder who developed into a CEO, I know that there is no manual and it is a nearly vertical learning curve. I can hardly wait to read Andreessen’s reviews.

Partner 74

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

At Treehouse, we’re trying to make technology education affordable and accessible to everyone on Earth, and doing that means that we’ll be working for a really long time and will likely always have more to do. If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. Alan Johnson , Co-founder of Treehouse. Find your niche.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In the beginning of any technology revolution the technology gets ahead of the institutions designed to measure and regulate safety and standards. Two massive changes are occurring in automobiles: 1) the transition from internal combustion engines to electric, and 2) the introduction of automated driving.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. But the same technologies that make life difficult for traditional marketers also offer them unprecedented new opportunities.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

The Atlantic Council’s report titled ‘ Keeping America’s Innovative Edge ’ outlined the challenges for what they termed ‘inland tech hubs’ in gaining access to capital compared to the coastal tech hub areas. Altounian has over 30 years of experience in the technology sector with roles at Dell, Motorola, Compaq and Ashton-Tate.

Venture Capital 54

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Some students who were getting their engineering graduate degrees wrote masters and PhD thesis that were classified. Other universities doing classified ELINT and Electronic Warfare work attended including University of Michigan, Georgia Institute of Technology and Cornell. Unless you had the proper clearances you couldn’t read them.

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