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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

But we were cutting corners in the development methodology as well as in the code, in the name of increased speed. a is name, b is address, and c is tax percentage. Actually, "the market" and "commodities" are just a way of saying "shared context", but that's just semantics.

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

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Front End Expertise: XHTML/CSS/JavaScript – Hand code, standards compliant, semantic, cross platform & cross device interfaces, jQuery, MooTools, Ext. Well, I am not in the Bay area, I am in the New York city area. JS (for web/internet and mobile devices). Spent a lot of money on that. Pingback: Quora. startupcto

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Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit

Duct Tape Marketing

The difference in the two that you mentioned … I realize this is semantics at some level, but the two that you mentioned are channel based, right? There’s no strategic method — You can say there’s a strategic methodology behind it depending, again it is semantics. Robert Rose: No. They wanted to do a show daily.

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Middle-East-Meets-West Provides An Edge For B2B Tech Companies

YoungUpstarts

In addition, San Francisco is within striking distance of other major US B2B tech markets, like New York and Chicago. This fertile crescent of B2B technology is an unbeatable homebase for a growing technology product’s sales, marketing, and success teams.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

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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Not All Traffic Is Created Equal

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This traffic has significantly more value than topical traffic, and excels at attracting endemic advertisers in the key verticals of travel, auto, tech, financial services, real estate and pharma, to name a few. The rest is just semantics. Name (required). Notify me of new posts by email. new york times.