TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

These two questions/answers can help define the early proof points for your company. The metrics, and how they relate, are captured in his slide: Note the relationship between retention/referral efforts and lifetime value. Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) How much money will your business generate from each converted customer?

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Metrics Startup Slides Technical Review 260

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. This kind of a simple model also helps: Define the early proof points for the company. A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. You only build what you need to prove that model. Great stuff.

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Metrics Startup Web 2.0 Slides 225

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

You could just sit and add people to your own family tree program, but people hadn't applied Web 2.0-style, it's been incredibly successful at Geni, and is the center of the company's culture. We recently decided we should spin it out into a separate company, so that other companies can use the product as well.

Yammer 133

Yammer Geni Startup Southern California 133

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The money slide is the graphic below. Throughout the 90′s the PC became much more popular in corporate environments, so companies began to replace dumb terminals with PCs. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing. The chart shows three scarce resources and their improvements over time.

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Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. So what changed that ushered in the new era that was officially dubbed Web 2.0?

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0 Forum December 9th Lineup - Startup Houston , November 27, 2010 When to step on the gas and go for it?

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. Valuations were enormous relative to progress in companies. Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. Yesterday was a Monday. Depressing.

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Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305