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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure. These are captured fairly well by his slide: The beauty of what he's defined is the relationship between retention and referral efforts and lifetime value. We need to make sure we have these numbers. Great stuff.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs. The people left standing had a compelling vision to build companies and we backed many in 2009. When this period was fresh, in Sept 2009, I wrote a very detailed assessment of what I thought had just happened.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0 Forum December 9th Lineup - Startup Houston , November 27, 2010 When to step on the gas and go for it?

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