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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

If your numbers work out, then scaling becomes a question of capital. Next, define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. Don’t overcomplicate things with reporting tools. Start by building just enough of your product to get early CAC and CLV signals (they won’t be perfect). Don’t worry about scaling just yet.

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Dow Jones: Venture Investments Drop To $5.1B In Q3

socalTECH

A report released over the weekend by Dow Jones VentureSource finds that venture capital investments in the U.S. billion and 663 deals reported in Q3 of last year. According to the tally of venture capital investments, results were down 6% from Q2. Dow Jones reports that Web 2.0 dropped to $5.1

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SharesPost: Sales In Escrow, New Research

socalTECH

Santa Monica-based SharesPost , which has created on online marketplace for sellers and buyers of private company stock, reported to its users late Friday that the firm now has sales of LinkedIn, Linden Lab, Tesla Motors, and SugarCRM going into escrow. READ MORE>>.

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

Both Sides of the Table

” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) Remember that while the tech blogs exist to report companies at their infancy, the broader journals do not. I just want to know if they’ve raised a bunch of capital and from whom. They want validation.

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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

If these numbers work out, then often scaling is more a question of capital. Define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. 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. In fact, this often becomes the mantra that we live by.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Brad’s start in Venture Capital. Venture Capital in Boulder and other smaller communities. “So was starting. The Oblong guy, literally?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Venture Capital - What's the rush?

Frank Addante

► March (1) Office 2.0: ► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. ▼ August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. Zondigo, Inc.