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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

Search engine marketing (SEM). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results. Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. For businesses, these are now prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads.

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Rare event in Palo Alto today: fireside chat with Lifograph and Microsoft

The Startup Magazine

Mendlen flew into Silicon Valley from Seattle specifically for this event to chat with the “Wiki of People” CEO. The Wiki of People is a free people search engine with 500K profiles and 1.2M AGENDA: 5:45pm – 6:30pm – Networking reception. 6:30pm – 7:45pm – Speaker program. Dubbed “Ms.

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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Search engine marketing (SEM). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results. Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. Facebook alone has 500 million members. Do you have a business presence there? You can use it for your business.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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Entrepreneurs and the Wikipedia Road Map

The Startup Magazine

To capture this search engine gold, the leadership team must first agree this is a priority, create a budget for it, and then adopt a notability strategy. To do this, gather all the media coverage about the organization, and using only the content supported by Wiki-approved media sources, write a basic article about the company.

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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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The Awesomeness of a Hackathon

Feld Thoughts

And, rather than have it be an “engineering thing”, you can (and should) make it a full company thing. The Hackathon manager should come up with an easy way to manage the team list (hint – wiki). In the best hackathons, there is a wiki that is very dynamic during the hackathon. Monday’s and Thursday’s are best. Form teams.