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Interview with Mike Starkenburg, Image Metrics

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Los Angeles-based Image Metrics (www.image-metrics.com) recently landed a $6.5M, Series B funding round for the firm's facial animation products. Around 2006, they opened up a sales office here, with a couple of guys talking to the film and games business. Editor's note: you can see Image Metrics "Emily" demo on their web site ).

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Brand Affinity Technologies Raises $7.5M

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Brand Affinity Technologies operates an online service which helps brands connect with celebrities and athletes for endorsements, providing metrics to find celebrity talent on a city-by-city basis. BAT said it has now raised $34M in funding.

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Map of VC Investments

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. Some very interesting graphics including this heat map: Very cool visualization tool! Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Danish VOIP technology company founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif. If you’re an entrepreneur make sure you watch the video for that segment alone. It’s awesome. The deals we quickly went through are: 1.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

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I then went to Pepperdine University School of Law and graduated in 2006 with a Certificate from the Geoffrey H. Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.” Startup Metrics discusses what a Startup needs to consider before “going live.”

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

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I sold that company, eCRUSH, which operated espin.com, to Hearst at the end of 2006. Our traffic metrics have been growing, and we're now up to over 2 million monthly uniques, and 7 million monthly page views. What's the story behind Ranker? Clark Benson: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have had one prior Internet exit.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

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We had agreed to sell the company to Salesforce.com and between the offer in December 2006 and the closing March 27th, 2007 I focused exclusively on the sale to Salesforce.com. The time zones, the travel, 2 kids, pressure, managing the sales process, speaking at conferences Somehow I had yo-yo’d back to where I was previously.