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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

Having a set of metrics that you watch & that you feel are the key drivers of your success helps keep clarity. And the more public you can make your goals for these key metrics the better. 4 times / 100 means if a customer uses your app frequently (say 10-20 times / day) then they are crashing nearly every day.

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Batch 8 500 Startups Demo Day | Our Top Ten

Tech Zulu Event

As our first time covering a 500 Startups demo day , we could only imagine the stratospheric levels of stress our Batch 8 founders must have gone through to get on stage and present their progress from their last four months of startup bootcamp. In true 500 Startups fashion, Demo Day had an almost cathartic feel. ” Demo Day.

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Interview with Mike Starkenburg, Image Metrics

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based Image Metrics (www.image-metrics.com) recently landed a $6.5M, Series B funding round for the firm's facial animation products. I was introduced to Image Metrics a year before I joined, and was helping them along. We presented at SIGGRAPH this year a demo of a character we called Emily. I fell in love with it.

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Investors, MVPs and Evidence of Traction

SoCal CTO

If you do build the MVP and show it to them, they will ask you about your metrics. They really want metrics, not a product. Investors Really Want Evidence of Traction So you built your MVP; you bring it to the investor; you demo it; and I will guarantee they will ask you: "So how many users do you have?

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Lessons Learned From The Accelerator Trenches: MuckerLab's Erik Rannala

socalTECH

We just had the demo day for our third batch of companies. It''s not a three month program, demo day, and folks move out or move on. We take companies all through the year, and have a demo day once a year with the companies who are ready for demo day, where they present, while other might not.

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The Four Main Things that Investors Look for in a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Imagine the “typical&# deal – somebody comes into a VC’s office, they’ve never met, they’re highly referred by a friend and they’re pitching a product demo and a PPT. And VC’s are tough customers. They’ve “seen it all.&#. during your meeting.

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7 Ways to Fail When Applying to an Accelerator

Tech.Co

Q: Tell us about your customers/users …. We want hard data and metrics – we want proof. A: Huge problem causing lots of pain for customers. It can be the 90 second product overview video from your website, a product demo, whatever you feel will advance your application. with actual data and metrics.

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