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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I learned to avoid unnecessary conferences, avoid non-essential costs and strive for at least a neutral EBITDA if for no other reason than nobody was interested in giving us any more money. It was a way to make it hard for your competition to compete. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. The Rise of the Lean Startup. The result?

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Enterprise SEO: Don’t Outsmart—Out Execute

ConversionXL

You still need to: Create quality content on relevant topics that users search for; Make sure search engines can access it; Establish your site as an authority. Enterprise sites are typically bigger, which adds emphasis on technical accessibility, but the basics remain: Can search engines efficiently access your content?

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5 Ways Your Sales Team Can Get More Out Of The Company’s CRM

YoungUpstarts

If you’re still hesitant to embrace voice-activated technology, consider this: by 2020, about 50 percent of searches will be voice searches. He has over 20 years of industry experience in transformative initiatives, technology leadership and architecture competency across the product portfolio and the enterprise.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

Search engines are vital for discoverability. Google’s Public Search Liaison Danny Sullivan has openly pushed back against those who want subscription-only content flagged in search results: Our automated systems try to present the best information in relation to a search topic, as people expect us to do as a search engine.

SEO 122
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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

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. like WeChat.). Competition. Sharing and cooperation is not yet part of the ethos.

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How to Establish an Agency Content Strategy When Outbound Stops Working

ConversionXL

For example, searching Facebook for “SaaS marketers” yields the following Groups: You can also search Reddit to find relevant subreddits: Your clients may hang out in different communities than the examples above, but this is the time to put your detective hat on and look for popular conversations happening within each community.

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