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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

If your numbers work out, then scaling becomes a question of capital. A : Activation - What % have a "happy" initial experience? Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Don’t worry about scaling just yet. R : Retention - Do they come back & re-visit over time?

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how Of course we can’t.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

There are many times when being overly capitalized before you’re ready is a negative. Plus, most early-stage M&A fails so this isn’t likely a good use of capital for a young company). Availability of Capital. ” Whatever answers they have manufactured the only thing I hear is, “Because we can.”

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Interview with Gary Bishop, Network Automation

socalTECH

There have been a lot of entrepreneurs here in software and other industries, and interestingly enough there seem to be more self-funded, bootstrapped firms here, rather than those looking for venture capital to get off the group. The traditional way to handle that is to write code. You are self funded too, we recall.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

socalTECH

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. As a result, I'm looking at a lot of software-as-a-service companies, and have run a number of SaaS companies. We'll even write a half a million check. That as unhealthy.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. We were in the center of the activity and thus would soon race against everyone else, many with much deeper pockets. That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves.

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Why You’re Not Getting the Most out of Your Board

Both Sides of the Table

Every time I think to write a post about this I figure the most recent board meeting I’ve attended will think it’s about them so I don’t bother. So I’m going to write a series of board meetings posts unrelated to anybody or maybe an amalgamation of them all. Ineffecient Board Meeting.

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