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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

These two questions/answers can help define the early proof points for your company. A : Activation - What % have a "happy" initial experience? And how much will it cost to win them? Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) How much money will your business generate from each converted customer?

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CircleUp Launches Group Communications Tool, Links With Active Network

socalTECH

Newport Beach-based CircleUp, which provides Web 2.0-style style group messaging services, said today that it has launched a new platform to help groups communicate with their members. The new platform--billed SmartMessage--helps groups send messages among members and others.

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Web 2.0 & eHealth

AeA Los Angeles Council

“Now we need to ensure that policymakers at the state level help promote ePerscribing and that medical practices across the country embrace the technology.” As more IT vendors comply with government regulation, the systems integrate better and customers and clients receive more efficient products. We’ve already seen how Web 2.0

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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

This kind of a simple model also helps: Define the early proof points for the company. A : Activation - what % have a "happy" initial experience? Often, what we are trying to do initially is show exactly how these numbers play out. You only build what you need to prove that model. R : Revenue - can you monetize any of this behavior?

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals. And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. Seems an obvious fit.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

prefer instead to divide it according to the mindset of users: whether or not they are actively looking to purchase something (i.e. Consultants Don’t Pivot, Founders Do - Steve Blank , May 13, 2010 Consultants can help startups leverage their limited resources. they released a new 2.0 Do fewer structured activities.

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Interview with David Sacks, Geni and Yammer

socalTECH

We have a very deep relationship with our users, and our most active users have archived their entire family lives on Geni, so we think there are lots of products they'd be interested in buying. Before that, creating a family tree was a solitary activity. How'd you decide the family tree area was the right place for a startup?

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