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New markets emerge for carbon accounting businesses as cities like LA push proposals

TechCrunch LA

As the City of Angels looks to improve its ability to provide accountability and metrics on its contribution to climate change, it could do worse than look at the standard that’s been set by New York City. That 2012 storm inflicted nearly $70 billion in damage and killed 233 people across eight countries from the Caribbean to Canada.

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Happy Customers Make Gender Bias (Nearly) Irrelevant

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A 2012 Dow Jones'' report entitled Women At The Wheel encompassed 15-years of data on venture-backed startups. In a similar vein, a 2012 study by the Kauffman Foundation noted that women account for only 10% of all the founders of high-tech startups. It''s not perfect, of course. During the period studied, only "1.3%

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

It’s obvious that we can be too late to these decisions of course. If — and it’s a big if of course — they can do that on the cheap, then why should an LP care at all? Startups either get three dozen term sheets or none at all, since every firm is walking around with the same frameworks and metrics in their head.

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Interview with Cody Simms, Techstars LA

socalTECH

One could argue that in 2010, 2011, and 2012, that growth was in the video and entertainment area. There are so many incredible ups and downs in the course of building your own company from the ground up. Sometimes entrepreneurs ask if we need certain metrics and traction�you don't. There is still amazing growth in that sector.

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How Digsy Is Using Data, And Deals, To Drive Real Estate Sales

socalTECH

After refining their metrics even more, they doubled their performance, and then quadrupled it. We continued to enhance our software to make it easier for them to follow the steps to cash in on credits, and of course, by following those steps they were able to predictably close more deals. Andrew Bermudez: It's kind of funny.

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110K Tweets Per Minute, The Walking Dead, Nintendo TVii & More | AdAge Social TV Conference Recap

Tech Zulu Event

Hashtags help to narrow focus of course, and yes, there are apps for that. The numbers really tell the stories of the power of the television twitter combo; there were 155 million Tweets generated during the 2012 Olympics generating 11 billion impressions. They all gather different metrics.