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Praying to the God of Valuation

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And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. Between 20062008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC.

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Map of VC Investments

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. Some very interesting graphics including this heat map: Very cool visualization tool! Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Danish VOIP technology company founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif.

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

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I sold that company, eCRUSH, which operated espin.com, to Hearst at the end of 2006. Clark Benson: I founded the company in 2008, and we took a little over a year to launch. Our traffic metrics have been growing, and we're now up to over 2 million monthly uniques, and 7 million monthly page views. What's the story behind Ranker?

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics. Where it might look something like: 1000, profile.photo.update, 1, 9:30AM 3/14/2008. Aggregate metrics. September 18th, 2008 at 8:00 am. This blog is to address these questions. Make sense?

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

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We had agreed to sell the company to Salesforce.com and between the offer in December 2006 and the closing March 27th, 2007 I focused exclusively on the sale to Salesforce.com. Exercise hadn’t been enough of a priority in 2008-09. I stopped doing conferences, traveling or pitching to VCs. But now I’m nearly 42.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

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The “official” date is June 9 th , 2006 — for those that are curious about such things). Metrics availability. Automating the Path to a Better User Experience - The Product Guy , July 5, 2010 I started writing about Quick-UX in 2008. So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup.

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