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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

These two questions/answers can help define the early proof points for your company. Next, define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. The metrics, and how they relate, are captured in his slide: Note the relationship between retention/referral efforts and lifetime value. Don’t worry about scaling just yet.

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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. 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. You only build what you need to prove that model.

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Where LinkedIn Works for Me

SoCal CTO

When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out. Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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A Tale of Two Tech Cities – Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles

Jason Nazar

I’ve spent the last year running a tech company based in Santa Monica , CA and I’ve spent countless weeks in the Bay meeting with hundreds of tech founders. Mark Zuckerberg & Reid Hoffman – hands down built the two best consumer internet applications on the web. Peter Pham – best networker / connector in web 2.0.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. " In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model. they released a new 2.0 Stay Tuned.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Actually, what Id love to see are some responses via blog posts from different folks in the group: Bill Austin - Famous Quotes 2007 Weblog Awards Alister Cameron - www.alistercameron.com Dennis McDonald - www.ddmcd.com Jason Alba - [link] Ben Yoskovitz - [link] Ben - [link] My answers.

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