I found none of the closed-door mentality or brash

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Indifference I expected, especially in Silicon Valley. Founders and CEOs, who had multi-million dollar businesses to run would take hours out of their days to have lunch, walk through the deck, and introduce us to VCs they knew. I've rarely known so much goodwill from people who have so many demands on their time. The Pitch Itself Let's get to the meat and potatoes, as I'm sure by now you're hungry The "elevator pitch" sounded something like: SEO is huge - every site on the web is doing it or wants to be.


But the process is broken - it's hard to learn russia email list , hard to measure, hard to know what's working and far more art than science. We are going to build software that helps transform SEO into a mainstream marketing activity, the way analytics software (Urchin, Omniture, etc.) did for web visitor reporting or email software (iContact, ExactTarget) did for email marketing. Unfortunately, I'm not going to share the exact deck we used, nor all the details from it.




Transparent though I love to be, there's a lot of information and data points that aren't fit for public consumption. It's less that I believe any of this data could be used to materially harm us and more that we've made promises to our investors and board to keep this stuff internal for now. I will say this - while I believed strongly in the deck when we first created it, that confidence was somewhat eroded by the end of the process.