I recently had a conversation with an pre-launch startup where they discussed how SEO was going to be really important for them. And to me, there seems to be a lot of confusion by founders of startups around search engine optimization (SEO) and how it works for a startup. I won't say that I'm truly an expert on SEO. Still having worked with a lot of different startups and especially a lot on SEO and especially They went on to describe a fairly common type of site that has some original content, but not much. They are in a space where

Blogging is an important way to build an audience and also drive SEO traffic.  It’s 8221;  I don’t think that most startup blogs should be about how to build a startup.  That’s How do I get started? The advantage of the hosted version is that I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice . I

He’s done several startups and is a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (which is where I met him originally). A great opportunity for more visible networking . I roughly know about MakeItWork, but tell me a bit about where you spend your time day-to-day. A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. In between it all, I'm dropping off/picking up my son, I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses.

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To me, strategy is the art/science of analysis, decision-making and leadership.  Now that I’ve been through several startup cycles I’m of the opinion that strategy - meaning the decisions that are considered, how they are analyzed and how they are implemented - is a huge success/failure driver . The first thing I’ve been thinking about I call the Startup Delta Force .  I’ve been mulling over a new series* of posts that I’ve been wanting to create for sometime.  Lately I find myself now very crisply focusing on the issue of STRATEGY. 

I recently got together with Aaron Shechet and an early stage startup to discuss the direction the company might want to take. It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. Tell me a bit about your background. I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. While at UC Santa I then went to Pepperdine University School of Law and graduated in 2006 with a Certificate from the Geoffrey H.

For example, if you click on Startup , you find: => The most recent posts, announcements and web pages on the top of the page that relate to Startups. => The best (according to social signals across the network) content below that such as: Acting CTO Role in a Start-up The DNA of an A++ Team Startup Delta Force… => The keywords on the left are ordered according to their relationship to the current term. So you can see that Entrepreneur (60) LinkedIn (15) Metrics (16) SEO (15) Company (141) are all considered highly relevant

In the meantime, we’ve thought about some other ideas for Twitter-related TV shows. Neil Patel in SEO CSI [link] Lead by Search Engine Forensic Neil Patel,  the audience will watch and learn all the intricate details of a SEO crime lab. Now that his  startup Mahalo has gone user-gen, Jason has A LOT more time As reported by Variety ,  a Twitter-themed television show is now under development. It’s being described as “putting ordinary people on the trail of celebrities in a revolutionary competitive format.”

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That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. Earlier this year I founded a new startup called KlickFu . Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations.