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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

If your numbers work out, then scaling becomes a question of capital. Start by building just enough of your product to get early CAC and CLV signals (they won’t be perfect). Don’t worry about scaling just yet. Next, define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. Be sure to check out the entire presentation.

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Aaron Fyke, Thin Line Capital: The Second Wave Of Cleantech Investing

socalTECH

There's a new opportunity in clean technology investments, according to venture capitalist Aaron Fyke , the head of a new, Pasadena-based venture capital investment fund, Thin Line Capital (www.thinlinecapital.com). This is not a typical, venture capital investment. Those $60M rounds really don't fit the venture capital model.

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LiveTime Software Gets Debt Funding

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Newport Beach-based LiveTime Software , a provider of Web 2.0 service desk software, has raised a round of debt funding, according to funding provider Agility Capital. Financial details of the debt funding were not disclosed. According to Agility, LiveTime will use the funding to support its growth.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 portfolios.

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Interview with Shaan Sethi, Jaanuu

socalTECH

The last piece, was we figured that we could disintermediate a broken, retail channel, by creating a customized, sophisticated, Web 2.0 It was a deliberate approach, in all honestly, about raising and using capital. The focus has really been on that as it relates to raising outside capital. companies around the LA area.

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Dow Jones: Venture Investments Drop To $5.1B In Q3

socalTECH

A report released over the weekend by Dow Jones VentureSource finds that venture capital investments in the U.S. According to the tally of venture capital investments, results were down 6% from Q2. Dow Jones reports that Web 2.0 Tags: totals capital venture venturesource jones. dropped to $5.1

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Knowledge Management

SoCal Tech Calendar

Friday, November 5, 2010 -- Knowledge Management at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems Abstract Bob Payne, Tim Frank, and Mark Britton, will share experiences working knowledge management and web 2.0 projects and processes at Northrop Grumman, Aerospace Systems sector.

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