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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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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. You will likely have multiple sets of metrics you keep depending on the company’s stage, one’s function in the company and level.

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Batch 8 500 Startups Demo Day | Our Top Ten

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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

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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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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

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Crowd Seats is the only Group Buying/Daily Deals site for sports fans. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. The end user, regardless of the mobile device from which the website is being accessed, will see a mobile version of the your site!

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TechZulu Recaps: The Annual Startup Forecast

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For a full breakdown of each of our speakers’ backgrounds, visit our event info site ! He mentions double and triple bottom-lined companies and tells us investors are starting to require metrics to see measurable social and global value. . Bitcoin and the closure of nefarious exchange site, Silk Road.

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Filmzu: Find, Connect and Create New Content | Co-Founders Interview Nick Ghirardelli and Rupert Ralston

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They would search through Craigslist and other jobs sites for a film crew and the process of finding people manually was quite cumbersome. We narrowed it down to key-metrics. A screen writer, nine times out of ten, isn’t going to have a demo reel. RR: Yeah, I am really proud of how the site is looking. Get noticed.

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Next Gen CrowdInvesting | Chance Barnett (CEO) of Crowdfunder

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Think of it as a virtual pitch frame that allows local angel investors to group up and run their own demo days. Startups have always pushed the edge by emailing investors they didn’t know, so overall, there’s been no transformation of the process, except now, with sites like ours, there is now a more streamlined way to do it.”

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