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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

Start by building just enough of your product to get early CAC and CLV signals (they won’t be perfect). If your numbers work out, then scaling becomes a question of capital. Another thing that Dave has done well is to look at the value of different marketing channels: There’s a lot of value in this presentation.

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Aaron Fyke, Thin Line Capital: The Second Wave Of Cleantech Investing

socalTECH

There's a new opportunity in clean technology investments, according to venture capitalist Aaron Fyke , the head of a new, Pasadena-based venture capital investment fund, Thin Line Capital (www.thinlinecapital.com). This is not a typical, venture capital investment. Those $60M rounds really don't fit the venture capital model.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 portfolios. Do so at your peril.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising. This is one book-end of the cycle.

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Interview with Shaan Sethi, Jaanuu

socalTECH

The last piece, was we figured that we could disintermediate a broken, retail channel, by creating a customized, sophisticated, Web 2.0 It was a deliberate approach, in all honestly, about raising and using capital. The focus has really been on that as it relates to raising outside capital.

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Should You Bother Targeting the Tech Blogs for Your PR Campaigns?

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6 or 7 years ago when TechCrunch was at its peak market share (they are still strong but many more tech blogs have also popped up) there was a term for getting covered there called “the TechCrunch bounce.” ” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0)

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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

If these numbers work out, then often scaling is more a question of capital. The other thing that I think he's really done well is his look at value of different marketing channels. Often, what we are trying to do initially is show exactly how these numbers play out. You only build what you need to prove that model.

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