Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2011

The Internet has changed the world. But certainly the Internet doesn’t do the job for you. An approach I suggest these days is for freelancers to contract for the actual role, probably part-time, of startup CFO, VP of Sales, or President. " 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. An approach I suggest these days is for freelancers to contract for the actual role, probably part-time, of startup CFO, VP of Sales, or President. " This is a minor semantic point, but an important one to the customer.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. You can hire a talented head of marketing, business development, technology and sales. You need to for conferences, business development and often for sales. Gil Elbaz from Applied Semantics has now created Factual.

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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 It’s too expensive to fly across country for marketing trade shows and big sales meetings. I’ve been doing some research to assess how much of it is reality, since I have to admit that I seem to have missed the clues to the transition to Web 2.0,

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BeyondVC

JULY 31, 2008

This includes investments in companies like Greenplum , which is powering the back-end data warehousing for a number of high profile Internet companies for targeted advertising; and Peer39 , which provides semantic advertising solutions by using natural language processing and machine learning. Companies are bought and not sold.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 21, 2022

John Jantsch (04:30): So going back to the ancient ages of the internet, you know, people would sometimes even turn images off because of bandwidth issues and things. They have scraped almost every image on the internet. I think you need to think about it semantically. The images changed and dollar values of the listing went up.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

He started in online publishing before the Internet (with Prestel in 1980!). This is about how behemoths adapt to Coase's Theorem now that the Internet is making that a practical consideration. ( In a consumer Web venture, the hustler/sales guy is non-core (a few biz dev deals are important but not core). Photo by LotusHead.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Of course, the sales folks had new features as their #1 priority. But the results were excellent - customer satisfaction, sales, profits, quality, attitudes all improved dramatically. The major change was never starting any project without sales, marketing, manufacturing, field support, purchasing, etc. What a freaking mess.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike believed that search was an essential part of the Internet experience, and he guessed that it would evolve towards commercial search. AdSonar’s advertising platform applied proprietary semantic algorithms to automatically serve the most relevant ads to each particular content page. The secret to the software sales process.

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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. Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? Of course much of it is conflicting. Create scarcity.

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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 14, 2015

Pretty memorable: Semantic elaboration is to think about the items’ meanings and their relations to other items. During the same period that the campaign occurred, BMW sales increased 12% – the video went viral. For example, take a look at our recent trend of public shaming on the internet.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The larger point here is that in starting a startup, youre not really working on an idea so much youre working on assembling a team of people to implement the idea, learning how to build a business, how to manage customers, marketing and sales, technical support - all that stuff.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. Cell Buddy has developed the only seamless, carrier grade solution, for low cost Voice calls, SMS and Internet, while abroad.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

3M acquired Attenti, which is expected to have about $100 million in sales in 2010, to get into electronic monitoring devices, which leads to large savings for correctional authorities. the New York-based Internet company spun off from Time Warner Inc., Instead of criminals being put behind bars, their location can be monitored. .

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ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

Long copy” doesn’t mean “long form sales page”. There’s a time and place for long form sales pages. Bill Leake: Optimizing for the “Considered Purchase”: What Changes if You’re B2B or Expensive / Long Sales Cycle B2C? Marketing/Sales optimization funnel. If the copy won’t sell them, what will? Neither should video.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. Over the past 5 years the Internet Cloud has started to form into layers and this is a great thing for innovation. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Dont blame the programmer if your internet platform or softwares not selling itself. Therefore that developer will either learn the semantics of the last or simply institute her own. Sales is more difficult and more important that you think, if you build it they wont just come. Semantic Webber (2010-06-21) # Great read!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

.” 15 years ago when many of us first started discussing the future of the web, the smartest future thinkers about where this would all go would say that people interacting with websites would just scratch the surface of the power of the Internet. When machines can talk with others machines you will have a truly powerful Internet.

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