TechCrunch
Freelance Writing Marketplace Scripted Signs For $700K
Scripted.com, a marketplace for freelance writers and small businesses to connect, today announced the company has raised approximately $700,000 in seed financing led by Crosslink Capital, Liveops founder Douglas Feirstein, and Shopzilla CIO Jody Mulkey...
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When I talk to my friends who are not currently at startups, or the Silicon Valley, the perception is that VCs and individual investors are throwing around investment dollars like drunken sailors. Outsiders think that there is a bubble, and that any company with two engineers and an idea will get funded (though there is some truth to that in certain cases)....
NPR
Failure: The F-Word Silicon Valley Loves And Hates
In Silicon Valley, there's an "F word" that entrepreneurs say in polite company all the time: failure. For every high-tech business success, there are countless failures in this California cradle of Internet startups. Here failure is accepted, or even welcomed, as a guide for future success....
CNN Money
Scripted.com, a San Francisco-based online marketplace for freelance writers and small businesses, has raised around $700,000 in seed funding led by Crosslink Capital
Other backers include Douglas Feirstein (Liveops) and Jody Mulkey (Shopzilla)...
Venturebeat
Scripted is a writer smorgasbord for those in need of community outreach, gets $700K
As a small business, it’s hard to keep up excited web content due to time costs, commitment to a full time community manager, and more. Writer marketplace Scripted, however, has a cheaper option and a seed round of $700,000 to execute it....
Content Marketing Institute
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Big Think
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For anyone out there who is running a company, considering starting a company, or even just managing your own blog – we have a message for you: you can no longer get away with producing a massive amount of low quality content to climb the search rankings. This may come off as obvious to you, but Google’s Panda, and subsequent Penguin updates ruined the ability for companies and websites to produce a massive amount of garbage and get away with it. ...
Duct Tape Marketing
Content Marketing is More Important than Ever
For anyone out there who is running a company, considering starting a company, or even just managing your own blog – we have a message for you: you can no longer get away with producing a massive amount of low quality content to climb the search rankings. This may come off as obvious to you, but Google’s Panda, and subsequent Penguin updates ruined the ability for companies and websites to produce a massive amount of garbage and get away with it. ...