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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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Avoid Monoculture. Travel. Read Widely. Let Experience be Your Compass.

Both Sides of the Table

It was an “enterprise 2.0” panel at the dawn of what people began calling “web 2.0.”. But poly sci taught me critical thinking and writing skills that I didn’t get in my econ classes. He writes about the fabric of American life, often from the perspective of his Jewish, New Jersey roots. Fight monoculture.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about.

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Angel Investing Skill 2 – Domain Knowledge

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Lead investors and follow investors can both win equally but in each case you know why you personally are writing the check. And before that Bryce Roberts who working alongside Tim O’Reilly (famed publisher and originator of Web 2.0 Basically, I’m talking about being an angel leader and not follower.

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Interview with Jan Zands, Phonesheet.com

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Traditionally, they hand-write those messages and those message slips become clutter, become lost, and they stay in your office when you're not there. So what Phonesheet.com does is takes that antiquated system and modernizes it, using a Web 2.0 system where the assistant can log into the account.

Web 2.0 147
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Interview with Sunil Rajaraman, Scripped

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Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. Are you targeting Hollywood and existing script writing software?

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Pathbrite Shows the Fruits of Having a Crystal Clear Value Proposition

Tech Zulu Event

.” Pathbrite’s technology is providing a smarter, more flexible, and Web 2.0 Pathbrite’s Web 2.0 To top it all off, students preparing to enter the workforce can now share their portfolios with potential employers as evidence of their work product, presentations, writing samples and internships.