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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

Get Users (= Acquisition, Referral) Drive Usage (= Activation, Retention) Make Money (= Monetize) Startup Challenges Management: Setting priorities, defining key metrics, reporting progress Product: Build the right features, getting product out quickly, testing for conversion/adoption Marketing: Accessing "web 2.0"

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Zesty Reinvents Itself With New Cash for Automated Web Tech

Xconomy

Zesty.io, a San Diego Web development firm, has raised $1.3 million in seed funding to spin out its consulting business, and focus instead on providing its core Web content management technology as a subscription-based software-as-a-service.

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Five Clues To Web 3.0 Opportunities Here Now

Startup Professionals Musings

Can you believe all the talk these days about Web 3.0? I’ve been doing some research to assess how much of it is reality, since I have to admit that I seem to have missed the clues to the transition to Web 2.0, After some work, I’m still convinced that much of the Web 3.0 and I’m determined that it won’t happen again.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

SoCal Delicious

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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Scientist.com Raises $24M for “Pharma Markets” that Outsource R&D

Xconomy

San Diego’s Scientist.com set out in 2006 to disrupt part of the pharmaceutical business by providing an Amazon-like approach to the business of hiring contract research organizations (CROs).