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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

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FEBRUARY 28, 2007

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MARCH 13, 2007

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MARCH 20, 2007

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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MARCH 1, 2007

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

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MARCH 12, 2007

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

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MARCH 5, 2007

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MARCH 20, 2007

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JULY 19, 2011

In a world where it’s easier to judge the immediate value of a business, I know that metrics like “time on site&# matter. By now most people acknowledge that social media helped play a role in candidate Obama’s 2008 election campaign. Get people to your website and never let them leave. That’s what AOL was.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2007

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JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. Another firm we saw tried to raise $15 million at a $60 million pre-money with similar metrics. There is no such thing as a uniform price. Here’s the problem.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

At GRP we sat out 2007 and much of 2008 for that reason and we’re now looking pretty smart for doing so. If you do a $1 million angel round at $6 million pre-money and hope to do a Series A round for $2-3 million that’s fine as long as you’re doing awesome against your metric goals and the market continues to be frothy.

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JUNE 1, 2011

Clark Benson: I founded the company in 2008, and we took a little over a year to launch. Our traffic metrics have been growing, and we're now up to over 2 million monthly uniques, and 7 million monthly page views. There are lots of things you can do with aggregated, opinion data, but we need to scale first.

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MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year.

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MARCH 22, 2007

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JANUARY 31, 2010

Exercise hadn’t been enough of a priority in 2008-09. And the first 2 steps of achieving any goal are to set metrics (&# you manage what you measure&# ) and to make your goals public (it’s easier to shame yourself into compliance than to be the only person holding yourself accountable). But now I’m nearly 42.

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MARCH 6, 2011

He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro. EcoMom’s metrics improved throughout this process and that’s when I decided to invest. We talk about all of this in the video.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

We closed our fund in August of 2008. They've got some nice metrics behind them. The fund is just celebrated its first year in business, so we thought we'd catch up with Brian to hear more about what the firm is investing in, the challenges of raising a venture fund in this market, plus his view on the Los Angeles venture market.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

We founded the company in 2008, inspired by and around the first iPhone. We've created a compelling way to communicate that data to the manager at 7-11, wh ois not a data analyst--but is powerful enough to use all the way up to the CEO, to track the metrics of the business. Or, it can come directly out of a database.

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APRIL 23, 2013

As an employee of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets from 1999-2003 and of the Indianapolis Pacers from 2003-2008, I learned first-hand from the likes of Rod Thorn, Byron Scott, Jason Kidd and Larry Bird about the importance of leading by example and keys to assembling a championship-caliber team.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

That worked well enough, we did another class in 2008 with another 10 companies, and in 2009 we expanded to Boston. Sometimes entrepreneurs ask if we need certain metrics and traction�you don't. We started in Boulder, Colorado, all the way back in 2007, with just ten companies. Have you shown progress moving forward.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Since first launching in 2008, Dreamit has received thousands of applications – heck, I’ve personally reviewed thousands of applications in the not quite three years since joining Dreamit. We want hard data and metrics – we want proof. with actual data and metrics. The #TrustMeFail. The Hand Waver”). nor repeating yourself.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics. Where it might look something like: 1000, profile.photo.update, 1, 9:30AM 3/14/2008. Aggregate metrics. September 18th, 2008 at 8:00 am. This blog is to address these questions. Make sense?

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MAY 8, 2014

This all, circling around 2008, a shy year for startup investments. They like getting in on deals in compelling spaces and enjoy telling others about why they love the companies they work with; they don’t repeat metrics and return models. He’d figured building companies would yield the effective skills necessary.

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DECEMBER 11, 2022

And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. We wanted new things to exist and to solve new problems and to see our creations come to life.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Unexpected Startup Lesson #1: Quitting the day job - Currently Obsessed , May 10, 2010 This post is the first of a series on “unexpected lessons&# learned through my experience as co-founder and CEO of Snapvine , a venture-backed mobile social networking service founded in 2005 and acquired by WhitePages in June of 2008. Where Do You Fit?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Metrics availability. Automating the Path to a Better User Experience - The Product Guy , July 5, 2010 I started writing about Quick-UX in 2008. Not so bad. Performance. Angel vs VC? - 0160; If I need $250,000 to get to 100 customers, or $1 million to get to X, and I can raise both amounts from either Angels or VCs, where do we turn?

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