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Ninja Metrics Raises $2.8M For Predictive Analytics Software

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Los Angeles-based Ninja Metrics announced this morning that it has raised $2.8M Ninja Metrics uses social analytics and cloud computing software to calculate "social value" of users in an online gaming environment, helping companies to predict what their users will be purchasing or doing, and helping them to better monetize their games.

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5 (More) Battle-Tested Business Tips From Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos

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But we do it anyway, because we believe that the short-term metrics probably aren''t indicative of the long term.”. Numerous small changes, any one of which had a minor impact on inventory costs or customer conversion metrics were compounded when combined with other small improvements. Let Your Competitors Chase The Quick Buck.

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Content World Turned Upside Down

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From GoogleTV to iTunes and YouTube to the rise of social networks to e-book readers to cloud computing and free software, the worlds of newspapers, books, music, platform games, film, television and even software have seen the sales of physical media such as DVDs plummet. Speakers: Richard Berger, Sr.

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Content World Turned Upside Down

SoCal Tech Calendar

From GoogleTV to iTunes and YouTube to the rise of social networks to e-book readers to cloud computing and free software, the worlds of newspapers, books, music, platform games, film, television and even software have seen the sales of physical media such as DVDs plummet.

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Ten Startup Tips From Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos

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But we do it anyway, because we believe that the short-term metrics probably aren’t indicative of the long term.”. Numerous small changes, any one of which had a small impact on inventory costs or customer conversion metrics were compounded when combined with other small improvements. Don’t Chase The Quick Buck.

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Putting the band back together, ExactTarget execs reunite to launch MetaCX

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” For the company’s customers, MetaCX provides a dashboard that includes outcomes, the collaboration, metrics tracked as part of the relationship and all the metrics around that are part of that engagement layer,” says McCorkle. . “It is API embeddable and we have a full user experience layer.”

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1.