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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. Great stuff.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What are your key Startup Metrics ? How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Administrators?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What are your key Startup Metrics ? How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Administrators?

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User Interface Beyond the Web Site

SoCal CTO

My initial conversations normally focus on the core of the business, important Startup Metrics , probably marketing strategy (ex. Questions to Spark Design Discussions Some interesting questions to ask about the user interface beyond the web site: What parts of your product can be effectively accomplished in the other user interface?

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

socalTECH

We wanted to bring the beauty of data visualization, of actionable insights to people in a very easy, very fast, very simple but very well designed way. We're working on how quickly we can provision servers, and what those metrics are, and it's been fantastic. But, they were an HTML app on a LAMP stack.

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Cojoin | Data Integration

Tech Zulu Event

We will be releasing actual mobile apps down the road, but right now we have device-friendly HTML 5 web applications. Yet, I couldn’t duplicate what I had very easily, so I went back to the drawing board and came up with a new design and Cojoin is that new design. Tablet and mobile are a huge part of that.

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

SoCal Delicious

Analysis on viral marketing, user experience, game design, and online ads. First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics. Design-wise, here are some things to consider: What’s your “event&# hierarchy and what level of granularity do you want?

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