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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

They have a related post: Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs , but I think that looking at my Startup Metrics post provides a bit broader set of metrics to consider. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. Great stuff. How Unique Is A Unique Visitor? -

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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

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Component design – computers need computer chips in order to compute, and computer chips have to be designed by someone. Device design – all of the major computing components – CPU, RAM, connectivity, display, battery, etc. – need to be enclosed into a coherently designed device. Value Chain.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

Assuming normal valuations at fund raising rounds you’ll be down to 6-12% after you’ve created a stock-option pool and raised capital. There is nothing wrong with non-founders – by design they are the overwhelming majority of companies. Putting your thoughts into spreadsheets, PowerPoint, HTML, etc.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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(there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 Video is the new HTML.” The 30-minute interview of Jonah Peretti is here but my summary in the notes below.

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

SoCal Delicious

.” The new mansion will reportedly be inhabited mostly by Tyler, who will use it as his home base while launching West Coast operations of the brothers’ new NYC-based venture capital firm , Winklevoss Capital. Hyperlinks and images must be manually coded using html mark-up. We respect your anonymity. Upcoming Events.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital.

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How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

SoCal Delicious

This article is a practical guide designed to help webmasters who already know what they want to block. Note that the word "SpammerRobot"can be in any mixture of capital (uppercase) or small (lowercase) letters. Get more free tips and articles like this ,on web design, promotion, revenue and scripting, from [link].

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