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SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:21 Eli Schwartz So all of that goes into what Google's going to rank the app on Google Play.
- ▶ 11:34 Eli Schwartz So Google, as much as they say they're really good at understanding and ranking JavaScript, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:53 Eli Schwartz You don't really need to rank on unclogged drains anymore, because Google is very local. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:43 Eli Schwartz Now, before you start, what you can do is you can go to the Google keyword tool. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:26 Craig Cannon And are you tracking that through Google analytics or using other tools? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:24 Craig Cannon That's the easiest to parse for, you know, Google and other things that are crawling your site. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:16 Eli Schwartz But there is an SEO aspect to that, and that is, people, like, Google Images is one of the largest, if you want to think about it as a separate search engine, it's one of the largest search engines after Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:31 Eli Schwartz But for now, I don't know that Google is really looking into the quality of the image, and they're not yet, I don't think, they're at a place where they're understanding what the image is and then choosing to rank it. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:33 Eli Schwartz So there's a lot of talk about mobile first and Google moving to mobile first.
- ▶ 34:09 Eli Schwartz Google actually hides URLs in search to begin with, and you can't, you know, they test it. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:09 Eli Schwartz Google actually hides URLs in search to begin with, and you can't, you know, they test it.
- ▶ 39:04 Eli Schwartz So, unless Korea is a specific target for you, or China is a specific target, Google's all you're gonna need. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:05 Eli Schwartz And they're basing that on other things they've seen, things they've read, things that Google has talked about. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:00 Eli Schwartz And it was the day Google rolled out the Google Panda update. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:00 Eli Schwartz And it was the day Google rolled out the Google Panda update.
- ▶ 47:56 Eli Schwartz Google could change their mind, or users could change their minds, and like, that is the wrong way of, uh, of aligning your, your SEO efforts. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:17 Craig Cannon Um, what about these tools, like, so you mentioned Ahrefs, you mentioned Google Analytics.
- ▶ 50:20 Eli Schwartz But the way I learned this was I was working for a company that would, and I was managing affiliates, and at the time, and it might still be true, the most expensive AdSense keyword and AdWords keywords was mesothelioma, the lung cancer…
- ▶ 50:20 Eli Schwartz But the way I learned this was I was working for a company that would, and I was managing affiliates, and at the time, and it might still be true, the most expensive AdSense keyword and AdWords keywords was mesothelioma, the lung cancer… 2 times in the scene
PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:44 Craig Cannon Um, the first thing I would do is set up Mixpanel, not Google Analytics, uh, but something similar to Mixpanel will get the job done.
- ▶ 16:18 Craig Cannon If you Google, uh, just those two words, you'll read a bunch of blog posts about that.
Suhail Doshi - How to Measure Your Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:36 Suhail Doshi I don't get it.
- ▶ 12:51 Suhail Doshi Like, Google was about page views.
- ▶ 16:28 Suhail Doshi In fact, um, I remember there was a YC company called Zenter which turned into, like, Google Slides, and I remember Robbie Walker during one of our, um, one of, uh, one of our Tuesday dinners said that they had, they didn't even implement…
- ▶ 17:22 Suhail Doshi You just go to Google, you type it in, and you immediately get to use the product.
- ▶ 20:42 Suhail Doshi Where people, with Google Analytics, you just copy and paste the JavaScript.
- ▶ 22:46 Suhail Doshi And good examples of this are actually, like, Airbnb and Google, where you just, you just try it.
- ▶ 39:04 unnamed speaker If you're like, uh, create an account name and password and doing all that kind of signup versus a single, like, button login with, like, Google LinkedIn API, how does that, like, transfer? 2 times in the scene
A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:30 Ooshma Garg And just like Google with search, the company that cracks it in food, I think will be like the long-term winner and have all these, um, learnings built on top of each other to where you build a long-term sustainable advantage.
Peter Reinhardt on Finding Product Market Fit at Segment · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:22 Peter Reinhardt Let's build a better web analytics, mobile web app analytics tool to compete with Mixpanel and Google Analytics.
- ▶ 7:15 Craig Cannon You definitely, you, at the time you were not 10 X better than Google.
- ▶ 8:25 Peter Reinhardt So we Googled analytics, and we found Google Analytics Mixpanel and Casmetrics.
- ▶ 8:25 Peter Reinhardt So we Googled analytics, and we found Google Analytics Mixpanel and Casmetrics. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:20 Craig Cannon If you go around and start Googling, like, should I hire a CMO?
Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:59 Michael Seibel How many of you, um, are using Google Analytics as your primary metrics products? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:49 Michael Seibel Facebook wasn't first to social networking, and Google wasn't first to search engines.
A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 46:47 Geoff Ralston And it's probably online, too, so you could Google it.
Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:03 Ryan Petersen If you Google like MBA debt, Ryan Peterson, it's on the internet somewhere, um, about how to, what I did, which was find these part time jobs and generate some income while I was so that I could, I, I don't know timeframes, like even flex…
- ▶ 16:45 Ryan Petersen Um, the, the earliest customers for Flexport we got via Google AdWords and SEO and just signups and people just finding us on the internet, signing up for the service.
- ▶ 52:12 Craig Cannon And you know, like, were you putting money down on, you know, SEO, like AdWords, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:25 Ryan Petersen Um, 10 years ago when I first started doing these landing pages for Flexport, or eight years ago, I was, SEO was different and easier, I think, and I would like, I knew how it worked, and now I don't know that much about how to rank in…
- ▶ 57:20 Ryan Petersen Getting the little wins that they matter much more than it seems because they're going to compound on themselves and that, you know, the way it looked in flex sports cases, like a decade of small wins and successes that got us into Y…
Sam Altman - How to Succeed with a Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:40 Sam Altman If you think about the most successful companies you know, Google, Facebook, whatever, ah, you probably found out about them because a friend of yours said, you gotta try this, it's great.
Jessica Brillhart, Immersive Director, on VR and AR · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:10 Jessica Brillhart So I was at Google for eight years. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:35 Jessica Brillhart Um, so I helped develop, uh, so jump, which was their, uh, VR live action kind of capture ecosystem, um, for live action foot, uh, VR footage.
- ▶ 1:08 Jessica Brillhart Um, namely, you know, I thought that, um, there was something really interesting, um, parallels between the machine learning team and the Google brain team, and also what was happening on the VR team.
- ▶ 2:34 Jessica Brillhart So I thought it was all, and I had before also like worked with, um, I had worked on some stuff, uh, kind of envisioning what the future would be like when, when, when glass was around. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:20 Jessica Brillhart I mean, that was really funny because, um, that's sort of, so in Seattle, uh, so the jump team, I think is still in Seattle.
- ▶ 5:27 Jessica Brillhart I don't know, but they, uh, so the engineers that are working on the, like the computer vision people that are working on the Google, like live action VR rigs, uh, are planted in Seattle at the same office. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:12 Craig Cannon Um, so, so, okay, so when you left Google, did you have a project in mind, or were you just going to client stuff?
- ▶ 30:19 Jessica Brillhart Like, I think you could see that just in the shift of Google's, like, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:13 Jessica Brillhart I would, you know, I speak to Siri occasionally, like it doesn't, it's fine.
- ▶ 41:45 Jessica Brillhart And then I ended up at Google, um, and Google was, it was always like that back and forth, like science, art, science, art, and then, or technology film, I guess, were the two. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:04 Jessica Brillhart The benefit of having, ah, been able to work with the jump rig so early on was that I was able to take a lot of the prototypes and I took one home.
Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:08 Elad Gil And so the envelope's full of cash, for example, when I was at Google, um, at Christmas time, the company used to give out 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:34 Elad Gil Uh, PayPal and Google and Amazon and et cetera were all from that first era.
- ▶ 20:52 Elad Gil And so examples where people were very aggressive about distribution with things like Google, where they were spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on things like Firefox, having Google prominently displayed on its homepage. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:04 Elad Gil They literally paid for, they used to have this client application called their toolbar that would 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:24 Elad Gil And so Google was an example of a company that hired extremely well. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:57 Elad Gil Upswing in the 2000 of, oh, look, tech is so great, and there's the iPhone and all these other things, and look at how Google's helping people, and now we're in sort of the, oh my gosh, tech is only bad, and my hope is that we come back…
Jessica Livingston Shares 9 Things She Learned From Founding YC · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:51 Jessica Livingston I mean, this was back in the days when Google's VCs had invest, insisted that the founders hire an outside CEO as a condition of their Series A round.
Fermat's Library Cofounders João Batalha and Luís Batalha · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:40 Luís Batalha Archive Chrome extension. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:03 João Batalha So you could have a more complex rating system, and so we've been thinking about that a lot, and we're just trying to figure out what makes the most sense there, but that's also definitely, like, we would love to add that to, to, yeah, to…
- ▶ 13:41 Luís Batalha And most of the times when people want to, to, to search the references, they have to copy the, the text in the PDF, put it on Google, and try to find the link to the paper.
- ▶ 13:49 Luís Batalha And one of the things that we did with our Chrome extension is we allowed that they just click on a button in the Chrome extension, and then they see 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:11 João Batalha The most important thing, and so we, we've thought of, um, doing something with Fermat there, either via some API where you could, like, send us the DOI of a paper, and we would send you, like, some information regarding the p-value or…
- ▶ 49:08 João Batalha Where even if you, yeah, maybe you could do, spend like a minute, like searching on Google and you'll find the content there you're looking for, but if it was right there, you could, you could just click and it would pop up and you'd, and…
- ▶ 1:04:06 João Batalha So, meaning, like, our next step is going to be building the Chrome extension for Archive versus doing anything else, because we think that's, that's what has the biggest impact.
Scott Aaronson on Computational Complexity Theory and Quantum Computers · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:30 Scott Aaronson So basically what you would do, imagine that Google, let's say, has some seventy-qubit quantum computer, as indeed they are working to build right now. 6 times in the scene
Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs – Liz Wessel of WayUp · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:36 Liz Wessel So, the story of the way up, the high level is my senior year, I'm happy to tell, like, the funny version of it, uh, from college, but my, the, the high level is my senior year, um, JJ and I worked on a project together that would help… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:47 Craig Cannon Ok, so I'm really curious about how and when you decided to leave Google, because a lot of people who could start companies and are in the position, you know, like financially, they have enough flexibility to leave, just kind of, 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:59 Liz Wessel So, to start, I have Reportive on my computer, which is this software that LinkedIn bought, but basically if you install it into Chrome and your Gmail, what you can do is you can figure out someone's email, if you can't find it already…
- ▶ 17:41 Liz Wessel I remember for my Google internship interview, I read an entire book about Google in like two days. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:01 Liz Wessel So I Google both. 2 times in the scene
Simon Benjamin on Architectures for Quantum Computing · Y Combinator
- ▶ 40:37 Simon Benjamin In fact, if you look online, you will hear more about the superconducting qubits, which is the approach, the, the main approach that, uh, Google and IBM and even Intel are taking.
- ▶ 1:05:29 Simon Benjamin So what we actually picture is, um, uh, if you, if you've seen those photos of say a Google server farm in these very big facilities where you've got in, you know, looking in different directions, you've got these pillars running off into…
John Preskill on Quantum Computing · Y Combinator
- ▶ 34:21 John Preskill Well-known big players like IBM and Google and Microsoft and Intel, but also a lot of startups now.
Helping Landlords Find Tenants – Sean Mitchell of Rezi · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:13 Sean Mitchell It's not using, you know, AdWords or, um, you know, PR or anything like that, you know, and we're, you know, we graduated to that stuff later, but I think to start, it was like, you know, call a thousand landlords and have 900 of them tell…
Gaming Studio Founders - Patrick Moberg and Holly Liu · Y Combinator
A.I. Policy and Public Perception - Miles Brundage and Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
- ▶ 29:29 unnamed speaker So then the question ends up being like, Tim, you were at Google before. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:17 Miles Brundage So for example, at the Future of Humanity Institute, we have a lot of, uh, relationships with organizations like DeepMind and OpenAI and others, um, but, you know, we don't have, like, a ton of, you know, GPUs or TPUs here, uh, like,…
Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture · Y Combinator
- ▶ 39:48 Jennifer Kim You can Google them.
Anne Wojcicki : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:12 Anne Wojcicki So in some ways, like, like, having grown up in this Google environment and, um, knowing, you know, the social networking world that was coming up, it was piecing those things together that was, like, combine the technology and science…
- ▶ 12:12 Anne Wojcicki Like, I remember when my sister first launched, launched AdSense, and she's like, I don't know, you know, we'll see how it goes.
3D Home Printing for the Developing World – Alexandria Lafci and Brett Hagler of New Story Charity · Y Combinator
- ▶ 59:26 Brett Hagler That either wants to fund it, that wants to partner with it, or wants to come, you know, give up their job at Google or Facebook and come work with you to do it.
Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:38 Vivek Ravisankar So let's say you had an interview call with Amazon or Google next week. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:48 Vivek Ravisankar And the friction to, or the inertia to go ahead and start another company when you're happy working at Amazon or Google is going to be hard.
- ▶ 34:43 Vivek Ravisankar I mean, a large company like Apple or Amazon or Google will, uh, will need to put in constraints. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:20 Vivek Ravisankar Um, but if you look at a lot of the great companies like Google or, uh,
Andy Bromberg - Startup Investor School Day 4 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:16 unnamed speaker I mean, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Netflix, all of those, there's quite a bit of market cap if you add those up together.
Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:28 Elad Gil And that's when you get a Google or a Facebook or one of these outside successes. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:23 Elad Gil So Joe Kraus, who started Excite, uh, which is one of the sort of monster companies of the nineties and who eventually moved on to Google ventures, um, said that his, his, uh, biggest, uh, mistake as an angel was putting himself in the…
- ▶ 1:03:09 Pejman Nozad And I ended up investing in two, which he sold the company to Google
Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:23 Paul Buchheit That's the original Google logo. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:51 Paul Buchheit The idea was college students, instead of going to work at Google as an intern, would just come to YC and start a company.
- ▶ 12:09 Paul Buchheit When you start live streaming your life, 24 seven, and I guarantee this is not the idea that would come out of Google, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:22 Paul Buchheit Uh, and Brett is someone that I knew from Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:35 Paul Buchheit Is he was the PM on maps, not even, or maybe like an APM, not even an engineer, um, and he was frustrated that the product was so slow and clunky, and this was before it was launched, and so finally one weekend he, he was just like, you…
- ▶ 22:28 Paul Buchheit Google has, like, a huge team working on it.
- ▶ 26:21 Paul Buchheit But, you know, I had some questions about competition, like what are you gonna do about Google Drive and all that.