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Startup Metrics

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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. Don’t overcomplicate things with reporting tools. Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) How much money will your business generate from each converted customer?

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Web Hackers Targeting Social Networking Sites

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Carlsbad-based Breach Security , a developer of Internet security software, has released the results of a security report, saying that nineteen percent of all online attacks in 2009 so far have been based on social networking sites. web sites to launch their hacking attempts.

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SharesPost: Sales In Escrow, New Research

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Santa Monica-based SharesPost , which has created on online marketplace for sellers and buyers of private company stock, reported to its users late Friday that the firm now has sales of LinkedIn, Linden Lab, Tesla Motors, and SugarCRM going into escrow. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

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. Define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. You only build what you need to prove that model.

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