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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

Start by building just enough of your product to get early CAC and CLV signals (they won’t be perfect). Don’t worry about scaling just yet. Just get your numbers into a Google sheet so you can work with them easily. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Finally, review the numbers with your partners.

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Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

InfoChachkie

Understandably, the pricing has to be excessive to provide sufficient margin for the product’s producer and an adequate incentive for the non-profit organization. Yet when a child attempts to sell such mis-priced items, the experience is often discouraging, due to the poor cost / value equation associated with such fundraising products.

Web 2.0 222
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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo! portfolios.

Web 2.0 334
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Should You Bother Targeting the Tech Blogs for Your PR Campaigns?

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” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) The problem with the TechCrunch bounce was that it often led the the TechCrunch free fall, as in your website’s precipitous decline in traffic and your products fall in users as that same 60-70,000 rushed to try the next product.

Blogging 309
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Angel Investing Skill 2 – Domain Knowledge

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I have talked extensively about “social proof&# in fund raising in the past. Basically, I’m talking about being an angel leader and not follower. It requires domain knowledge to know what you’re talking about and success long term as an angel. Think you know a thing or two about location-based services?

Invest 288
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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Social Networking in Web 2.0. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 cheap accessible digital hardware].

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. contextual text ads (e.g.

Ideas 286