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Sale of existing shares from an early investor or employee to a new buyer, distinct from primary issuance of new shares by the company. Secondary sales provide liquidity to founders and early stakeholders without raising new capital. Most common at growth-stage companies where employees with vested options or early investors with paper gains want to realize value before an IPO.
Programmatic SEO, AEO, GEO, AIO, and the schemas behind them.
A content strategy that generates hundreds or thousands of search-optimized pages from structured data using templates.
The practice of structuring website content so that AI assistants and large language models (LLMs) can accurately cite it when answering user questions.
An open protocol that allows websites to notify search engines (Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver, and others) about new or updated content in real time.
Structuring content so that answer engines — Google's People-Also-Ask, Reddit pull-quotes, Quora top answers, ChatGPT search results, Perplexity citations — can extract a complete, self-contained answer in 40–80 words.
The subset of GEO/AEO targeted specifically at Google's AI Overviews (formerly SGE).
A Schema.
JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data — the W3C-standard syntax for embedding structured data in web pages.
A Schema.
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The Data Nerd. "Secondary Sale." VC Deal Flow Signal Glossary, https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/secondary-sale.
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