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Prolific celebrity investors such as Ellen DeGeneres and Ashton Kutcher are part of a new trend that has taken over Silicon Valley. Hollywood starlets have started to invest heavily in tech startups, and it could have a deep impact on the industry. Let’s look at why celebrities are investing in tech, particularly in apps, and how they are affecting the tech world. How Celebrity Investment Works A relatively new type of business is connecting Hollywood to Silicon Valley. These networks are designed to be the middleman between celebrities and startups. They help celebrities find and invest in tech start-ups and apps related to their personal brand. The celebs get a percentage of the company while offering branding and financial resources in return. Instead of being paid for an endorsement and benefitting financially for a limited time frame, they become investors and reap the rewards long-term should the investment turn out to be profitable. It Opens up New Career Paths for … [Read more...] about Celebrity Investment in Apps Search Engine Journal

Blogs are some of the most helpful resources on the Web today. Written by those who have both education and experience, there is a great deal we can learn in the business world from those who have been there and done that. You can often avoid missteps or get valuable advice, just from keeping up with their posts. Startups are a popular topic for business blogs, and there are some people who specialize in it more than others. If you are looking for some useful articles on the topic, these nine sites are a must for your RSS feed: (Featured here in my old article on promoting your startup) A team of four business experts have gathered to create a startup community that is entirely user driven. Gonzalo and Fernando Arzuaga, Matias de Tezanos, and Pepe Amorin are dedicated to bringing you the latest info on new companies, concepts, and even rumors from around the world. Be sure to check out their Guest Post section to learn how you can contribute to their blog. New York venture capitalist … [Read more...] about Best Blogs About Startup Entrepreneurship

Once upon a time, infographics were all the rage. They were everywhere, and in every form — beautiful, quirky, funny, insightful, or just plain weird. And for the most part, they worked. Neil Patel’s companies, for example, reeled in millions of visitors off the back of infographics alone. Things are very different today. Sure, there are many awesome infographics floating around on the web, generating a ton of traffic for their creators and delighting their audiences. But for the most part, the infographic world seems to be a lot quieter. People are starting to realize that it’s not enough to throw together some words and images. Readers are tired of seeing the same old, tired ideas being rehashed, or numbers mashed together in a shoddy mess of graphs and charts. To create infographics that stand out from the pack and drive serious traffic today, you have to make it something special. If you follow the rest of this post closely, you might have a fighting chance yet. … [Read more...] about How to Create Infographics That Drive Traffic

Last year I wrote a post titled Google on Finding Entities: A Tale of Two Michael Jacksons. The post was about a Google patent that described how Google might tell different entities apart that shared the same name. The patent in it was filed in 2012 and granted in 2014. Google was also granted a new patent on how it might disambiguate entities this week, which was originally filed in 2006. It is worth looking at this second one, given how important understanding entities is to Google. It contains a pretty thoughtful approach to understanding and distinguishing between different entities within documents and queries. The patent on how to disambiguate entities was filed in 2006, and the inventors also authored an article in 2006 about named entities that shows where their minds were at during the time: Using Encyclopedic Knowledge for Named Entity Disambiguation, by Marius Pasca and Razvan Bunescu The paper echoes the patent in many places, and it appears that the two documents were … [Read more...] about How Google might Disambiguate Entities with the Same Names in Queries and Pages

We’re only 7 weeks away from the MarTech conference in San Francisco, May 9-11. This will be the biggest and best one yet, with 70+ sessions, 100+ speakers, 100+ exhibitors and sponsors, and 2,500+ marketing and marketing technology leaders gathering together to meet, learn, and be inspired by each other. If you’re working the intersection of marketing, technology, and management, this event has been lovingly hand-crafted for you — and I’m eager to give you a glimpse of what to expect. ut first, a quick alert: the discounted beta rate for tickets expires on April 1. (No, we’re not fooling.) So, if you want to guarantee a spot at a great price, I encourage you to register before that deadline. Here’s what an All Access Pass will give you over a whirlwind 48 hours… On the evening of May 9, we’ll kick off with a celebration of the winners of The Stackies & Hackies Awards. Unlike typical industry “awards,” which often are … [Read more...] about Master modern marketing technology leadership over 2 intense days