Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business If you have a unique product or service, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling your consulting service or a few products (as an alternative to eBay): Go online to reserve a website domain name.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The Internet is an amazing, fantastic, vibrant place. But there are also evil people out there who steal identities, hack credit card accounts, track personal information, violate privacy, insert malicious programs that can exploit your company or home network, destroy your hard drives and raid your social network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

If you have a unique creation or invention, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost of entry has never been lower.

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ultralightstartups.com

MAY 20, 2013

Name A Startup. Name A Startup. I’m often in the process of naming a startup. Here’s what I found: 1) Qualities of a good name. The following is a list of qualities of a good name for your startup. Also try the company search on Hoovers. 2) Name types. Finding a Technical Co-Founder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

If you have a unique creation or invention, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost of entry has never been lower.

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eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping .Net 196

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2013

Social media can also be an important and useful part of your marketing campaign, particularly if your business exists only online. For companies without a physical location, social networks are the only place that customers can go to get an idea about you, your business, and your company culture.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2018

On May 25, 2018, the European Union implemented new Internet regulations called the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR, for short. This includes e-commerce websites that ship internationally, content news sites accessible in the European Union, social networks like Facebook and Instagram, and more. Conclusion.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. They want to monetize the Twitter stream via contextual search matching. But Twitter.com (which will likely improve dramatically on UI, I’m guessing) will be the main event for Twitter search. uh, hello!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly Users were outraged. “The Internet is free, you can’t make money off it! Next came search results based on people paying to be high in the result set.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

P.S. Three types of external providers are not mentioned because they are well known: open-source software stacks, domain name (DNS) providers, and marketing/social networking sites. Twitter – Share new blogposts and exciting news quickly, search who else is talking about us and respond to interested users.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

If we’re a B2B company selling into brick-and-mortar retail environments, and we’re looking to find an audience of retail executives, we’ll start with a simple Google search. Retail Dive is highly relevant and also has a promising presence on networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook. Developing a social media following.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

If you have a unique creation or invention, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost of entry has never been lower.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2010

The result is we can’t find that key name and phone number quickly when we really need them. What we all need is a digital tool that can extract data from business cards, as well as sync it with your cell phone, your email, and the social networks you use. That doesn’t address social networks and other lists you may have.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Social Network 120

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

As the old joke goes, “on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog.” Every time my posts ended up there the conversation descended into hate and vitriol and a lot of people that don’t really know me calling me all sorts of names. You call them all sorts of names. Cars are dehumanizing.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 17, 2011

Finding and agreeing upon a worthy name is always a struggle, especially if you have co-founders. There’s a lot of advice on the Internet about naming companies; see this article from OnStartups.com for a particularly good, detailed checklist. Then of course there’s the domain name. If it’s not available, it’s out.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 31, 2023

Not your rivals, but you specifically, should rank first (or near the top) in Google search results (SERP) due to the fact that most individuals open the first link they see. You would like to have your ad appear when people are searching for what you have to offer, not just to be the primary result in a search.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Up and Running

JANUARY 9, 2018

Even if it was, do you really want your marketing plan to be based on your clients throwing your name out every once in a while? They’re owned by someone else, and if that social network ever fell apart, your business would too—at least if it was relying on that one website (or app) for leads. SEO is a very scary acronym.

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Marketing Technical Review Social Media Algorithm 78

Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

However, thanks to economy of scale, prices for online venture necessities like web hosting and Internet data have dwindled significantly. Visit online forums, social networks, and blogs and check customer star rating and comments. Step 2: Name your business. Step 4: Get your domain name. Think 4 syllables or less.

Software Review 45

Software Review Hosting Intellectual Property Naming 45

Up and Running

AUGUST 23, 2012

The internet can present a treasure trove of information on almost any subject …including you. What are your target customers finding when they type your name, company, product, or brand into search? It’s time to get a grip on your online reputation. Make sure your posted information is honest, accurate, and keyword-rich.

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Reputation Software Review Social Media Search 89

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Rather they understood that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Carpe Diem. Wide Adoption.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

New domain names are launching at a rate of seven per week just this past month alone. Finance-related domain names that have become available to pre-register include.bank,loans or.ventures. Finance-related domain names that have become available to pre-register include.bank,loans or.ventures. If you’re in finance.

Naming 138

Naming SEO Analytics Cofounder 138

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. New Rules for China.

China 327

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 327

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

We’ve recently discussed several useful topics for small businesses and startups, including naming your company , how to make you taglines stand out from the crowd., Also consider how people with slower internet connections will view your site. Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized.

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Small Business Web Design Marketing 123

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

We’ve recently discussed several useful topics for small businesses and startups, including naming your company , how to make you taglines stand out from the crowd., Also consider how people with slower internet connections will view your site. Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized.

Small Business 122

Small Business Web Design Marketing 122

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. You may assert that monitoring the entire Internet space is an impossible problem.

Reputation 140

Reputation Management Social Network Internet 140

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2013

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. You may assert that monitoring the entire Internet space is an impossible problem.

Reputation 245

Reputation Startup Social Network Internet 245

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S. plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 billion online in the first quarter of this year.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2020

As a newbie in the industry, you should be ready to work hard so that you can earn more profits with the help of the new thing called the internet. You can do this by using the navigation tools provided by the search engines. For instance, having your website listed on various search engines and sites will help customers find you.

Marketing 165

Marketing Social Media Startup Engineer 165

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2011

Now the measure is how many hits one has on a Google name search, factored by some formula, like the sum of all positive messages minus 100 for every negative message. If you don’t define yourself effectively, the Internet will do it for you in ways you never imagined. She googled each person's name.

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Social Network Internet Networking Search 257

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2013

These days, your online Internet reputation is your reputation. This is simple in concept, but requires real effort and can be time consuming, and even expensive, if someone gets there before you and tries to sell you the rights to your preferred business or personal domain name. Twittering. Professional directories.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs. The implications of the propriety vision were not good.

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CTO Internet Illinois Cofounder 78

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. New Rules for China.

China 219

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 219

YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2012

We know that the Millennials are defined by their love for and use of technology, but how much do they really embrace the Internet and their devices? Well, unsurprisingly, online social networking is huge with this lot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2012

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. You may assert that monitoring the entire Internet space is an impossible problem.

Reputation 213

Reputation Management Social Network Internet 213

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Fred Wilson wrote a blog post yesterday called “Real Names” in which he talked about a commenter on his blog who preferred not to comment because he didn’t want to use his real name. If you want to have a public debate then at least have the decency to do it using your real name! It’s a powerful concept.

Social Network 329

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet.

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