Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

The Energy Internet Emerges: We will be trading energy with each other through a new type of distributed energy grid. It will be akin to the way we trade information with each other on the internet now – except it will be energy – and we will generate excess energy on our buildings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2011

For some reason, I haven’t heard much about the next generation of the Internet ( Web 3.0 ) lately, which probably means it isn’t happening as fast as everyone predicted. I suspect the real challenge is not the semantic web technology , but new attractive business models from smart entrepreneurs. are appearing.

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

Domain names are less important than they were in the first Internet wave, because so many people will access your service on mobile and/or via apps, and because type-in traffic is declining. However, they remain key to your email identity, and fundamental to your marketing and even capital-raising.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

In fact, in the 70’s and 80’s, the distinction was almost entirely semantic, as the military and aerospace industry invested ungodly amounts of capital to create technology breakthroughs that eventually saw wide commercial adoption in the personal computing industry. Oftentimes they see a market need and simply want to serve those customers.

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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.) No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. I do have a quick and dirty sample up on victusmedia.com. met one of each in the last week.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2014

The Internet has changed the world. But certainly the Internet doesn’t do the job for you. Small groups of consultants have now become groups of specialists – CFO Services, Marketing Services, or Management Services. " This is a minor semantic point, but an important one to the customer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 21, 2022

The Rising Importance Of Images In Google Search written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Mike Blumenthal. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Mike Blumenthal. Take The Marketing Assessment: Marketingassessment.co. Connect with Mike on Twitter.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

Personally, I believe that the Semantic Web will become mainstream in the next few years (I actually have a bet on this with some college friends). After reading the wonderful blogpost on the BBC’s dynamic semantic publishing system , it reminded me that the Semantic Web has two audiences: the common web user (my mom) and developers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2016

He called his dream the Semantic Web (or Web 3.0), meaning that it could learn and interpret the user context just as human personal assistants do. I still find the current tools to be unintelligent, flat, boring and way behind the technology and marketing curve of what is possible today. Why are these things so difficult?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2011

The Internet has changed the world. But certainly the Internet doesn’t do the job for you. Small groups of consultants have now become groups of specialists – CFO Services, Marketing Services, or Management Services. " This is a minor semantic point, but an important one to the customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The Internet has changed the world. But certainly the Internet doesn’t do the job for you. Small groups of consultants have now become groups of specialists – CFO Services, Marketing Services, or Management Services. " This is a minor semantic point, but an important one to the customer.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

Internet of Things. semantic web. ReadWriteWeb. Key Trends. App Stores. Real-Time Web. Structured Data. Top Topics. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteBiz. ReadWriteEnterprise. ReadWriteCloud. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteMobile. Online Communities. The Social Layer. POPULAR TAGS. social media. advertising. developers. foursquare.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

I kind of think LA is just LA and doesn’t need some clever marketing term. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. Home to the Internet’s first true “accelerator,” Idealab led by Bill Gross. That’s OK with me. This is the list I would start with.

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

How about Jana , which brings internet access to the developing world and boasts 30 million global users? There’s Semantic Machines , one of the best collections of AI and ML minds in the world, led by serial entrepreneur Dan Roth. Want businesses with massive reach and international presence?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

But it’s more atypical for investors located in this market. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. If we extend a bit North up the coast line we have many affiliate marketing innovators including ValueClick, Commission Junction and FastClick. So it’s always a trade-off.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2010

buzz is hype, but things are changing on the Internet, and bits and pieces of Web 3.0 According to Michael Tasner, in his new book “ Marketing in the Moment: The Practical Guide to Using Web 3.0 Marketing to Reach Your Customers First ,” here are the five key components to watch: Micro-blogging. are appearing. Marty Zwilling.

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BeyondVC

JULY 31, 2008

Anyway, here are the questions and my response: Even though there is uncertainty in the credit markets, a stalled IPO market, and few billion-dollar plus M&A transactions, the investment activity level and appetite for quality businesses in the middle-market continues to be vibrant. IPO vs. M&A)? (My Exit Strategy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Transcript of Creating Content that Ranks in Local Search written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. They are both marketing consultants and part of the Duct Tape Marketing Consultant network. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, whose last company Applied Semantics was acquired by Google in 2003, becoming one of the core components of AdSense. I predict that data over time will become the next major layer of the Internet supporting both consumer and business applications.". Discuss.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 11, 2010

How does this effect digital marketing? Just as the internet changed the way we could market, will e-books do the same? Firsthand perspectives from Semantic Technology in action Semantic technologies promise to change the landscape of the web and enhance the user experience. RSVP: [link] 6:30PM: What the RDF?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

LA not only produced the obvious – MySpace – but also created the whole category of sponsored search (Overture), AdSense (Applied Semantics), Local Search (City Search), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla) and lead generation (LowerMyBills). Mark Suster, QD3, Brian Solis, Chamillionaire, Ian Rogers, Brian Zisk.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2011

A s TV’s gradually get connected to the Internet, there is an increasing appetite for smart content recommendation. Think of it as a search engine for video content that understands the semantic meaning behind the query.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Content marketing remains one of the top ROI friendly strategies to generate relevant leads for your business. The average content marketing conversion rate is around 2.9%. When it comes to ecommerce stores, content marketing is certainly a game changer that can power up the success of your marketing strategy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

We were using it to get features to market faster, and that was working well. I now believe that the "pick two" concept is fundamentally flawed, and that lean startups can achieve all three simultaneously: quickly bring high-quality software to market at low cost. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

While our industry is the educational sector, our target market is primarily high school students, undergrad and graduate students. Front End Expertise: XHTML/CSS/JavaScript – Hand code, standards compliant, semantic, cross platform & cross device interfaces, jQuery, MooTools, Ext. JS (for web/internet and mobile devices).

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

He started in online publishing before the Internet (with Prestel in 1980!). But this discipline also means that the product fit to market tends to be very good - you don't end up with solutions looking for problems. The second project is when you start to sense that maybe a real market exists. That is the surface change.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. Mike believed that search was an essential part of the Internet experience, and he guessed that it would evolve towards commercial search. Why AltaVista Failed To Become as Successful as Google.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 11, 2010

For me, Twitter is now borderless and operates at internet scale. But then it transformed to news and event dissemination, one-way status updates, marketing, et al. When it comes to brand promotion, marketers will drool over the semantic data and opportunity to engage consumers on a unique level.

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entrepreMusings

MARCH 6, 2010

The first was an Semantic Web Austin event hosting Mark Greaves from Vulcan Inc. Paul Allen’s asset management group – www.vulcan.com ) to discuss the opportunities in the semantic web space. With the Semantic Web, you can ask things like “How many white elephants are there in China who belong to people making over $10K?”

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BeyondVC

MARCH 14, 2007

" As I reflect on the last decade, I never really did think that as an investor in software and the Internet that the question would become almost irrelevant and would change to "what is Google doing or going to do?" The opportunity to reach and market to this third screen is huge and just in the first inning.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

I'm sensitive to the combative tone some have tried to take the conversation, which isn't an accurate reflection of what I said. startupcto

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

There are a couple of good reasons a company should consider bootstrapping its market entry. Or the founders have taken on a small amount of seed financing, just enough to get them into the market. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Nice article.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Investors are looking for proven entrepreneurs to enter this emerging market and they will get well funded too. Things like taking most of the market out of the gate (why would we need a second brown fizzy sugar water?) Given the nature of the markets involved, there is a very real prospect of that happening.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The “Infrastructure Phase” of the Internet … Before we had an Internet startup explosion we needed infrastructure which spawned the original tech startup community in Silicon Valley. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 28, 2016

There are three main types of encoding: acoustic, visual, and semantic. repeating a phone number out loud over and over again) while long-term memory relies on semantic encoding (e.g. It can work for mid-market and enterprise, too. via Buffer). It is believed that, in general, short-term memory relies on acoustic encoding (e.g.

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