Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 dot-com bonanza. At Upfront we have always done 40% of our investing in Greater Los Angeles and it’s precisely for this reason.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

The startup has developed a system which uses information from online forums, source code sharing, technical communities, and the like to help find and rank technical talent. That includes hundreds of thousands of sites on the web today. Shane Bernstein: If you exist on the web, you exist. What kind of data are you gathering?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

I paraphrase here the key challenges he identifies, adding my own insights: Marketing ROI requires cross-enterprise information. Leaders and investors need to know if you have and are tapping into your key sources of relevant data, including web analytics, sales management data, and customer relationship management (CRM) software.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

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. However, the good news is that for most investors, you can certainly change the question and get a lot more information without ever building the MVP.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What are your key Startup Metrics ? How much member profile information do you need before allowing a user to login? Location/Geography - are you using geographic information? Analytics/Metrics - what are the key startup metrics that you will need to track? Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What are your key Startup Metrics ? How much member profile information do you need before allowing a user to login? Location/Geography - are you using geographic information? Analytics/Metrics - what are the key startup metrics that you will need to track? Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

He is not a technical person, but is somewhat web savvy. And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format. For example, if you are trying to determine viral coefficient (see Startup Metrics ), then the focus should be around those aspects of the MVP.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2008

Los Angeles-based magnify360, a provider of web page optimization tools, has lauched a new product for optimizing Google AdWords advertising, the firm announced today. Los Angeles-based magnify360, a provider of web page optimization tools, has lauched a new product for optimizing Google AdWords advertising, the firm announced today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

Now, if your web site is not clear and clean, or you don’t have a chat robot for a product question online, you may be abandoned as providing poor customer service, just as certainly as having to wait in a long product exchange line after the holidays. The marketing metrics covers support as part of experience.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

For local businesses, we're also giving them free mobile web sites, and working on other relationships. We will be opening up a a round of funding soon, as soon as we have some metrics and have been live in the market, and hope to raise some money and capital in the next thirty days. We're also funding it out of pocket.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. You can slice and dice information and pivot on almost anything, if that data is well-linked. How long has the site been up and running?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2016

No board will know your business better than you do but if managed properly they should be the most informed people about your business than any full-time executive. Since you’ve already walked through financial & operating metrics the board meeting ought to be the time to run through 2–3 big strategic issues the company faces.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

As automotive web sites go, there are lots of review and information sites giving you information about new and used cars, magazines and information sites for auto enthusiasts, and discussion sites and groups for all kinds of cars. It's got movies running, engine noises, lots of information packed into the site.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Although the article is informative, it is the accompanying sidebar that has remained with me over the succeeding years. But we do it anyway, because we believe that the short-term metrics probably aren’t indicative of the long term.”. Web-based businesses must compete in the blinding light of total transparency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Adopt a project-based revenue model with metrics. If your customer’s dress code or decision process is informal, you should adapt yours to fit in, rather than continue to act and look like an outsider. Specialists and certified professionals are already seen as experts who do the work, rather than just make recommendations for others.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We don't provide specifics of how you did with your level of unconscious bias, but as a member of a certain demographic category, your information shows up in a bucket along with forty nine other people. Why that it is important, is the metrics associated with this is are how scalable it is. Those feel like you're running 2.0.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 LinkedIn has been great to keep track of people I know and their current contact information. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. event I did last fall.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? How is this different than the movie clips floating around the web now? more) READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The challenge is in getting clear numbers, but not often as cleanly as a basic web analytics report. Web analytics, pretty clear. When you spend large chunks of time (and resources) looking at data, you begin to wonder what you’re watching and what information is really worth gathering. For example?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. Do you run into any issues with privacy of the information on the site? What's the idea behind the site? Are those resume public or private?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

It's analytics around users and visitation on web sites, and it's knowledge of the consumption of photos--for example, GumGum--or video images on the web. They've got some nice metrics behind them. Our contact information is on the Crosscut website. We try to be respectful of every entrepreneur and their idea.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 7, 2015

The internet has revolutionized human life by being able to provide instant and quick access to information. While in 1996, Hotmail launched e-mail on the web, and it opened the world of online communications. For an online retailer to create a retail website, starting your retail web development is just easy as clicking the mouse.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? We will be releasing actual mobile apps down the road, but right now we have device-friendly HTML 5 web applications. That concept of connecting information together was something that was really important to me and I wanted to communicate in the name.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2015

A survey by the Webs Small Business Digital Trends revealed that 63% of small business owners are using digital strategies in their overall marketing efforts. It is not enough that you know bio-data information, you have to go deeper if you were to direct your efforts on winning them over. Tell your story.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I promised to do this post as a follow-up to the session to provide additional links and information. Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. The real reason to build an MVP is to do early tests of key Startup Metrics for the business.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

If you don't have room information, and have to look in four or five rooms to find an asset, you might as well be doing it the old way rather than signing into a computer. Without room information, adoption falls off. But, we're not focused on an exit--we're focused on profitability, which is a key metric for management.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? How can we address this risk? Accounting?

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics. Initally, the product development process should likely be focused on big-picture qualitative information, like whether or not your business is addressing the right audience as well as the preferences for that audience.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. The desktop web introduced banner ads that offered “brand advertising” opportunities akin to television.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

From there, you will generally see a pop-up dialog similar to the following (this one is from CitySearch): Once you click Connect, the original site now knows that I’m Tony Karrer from Facebook and the various demographic and friend information from Facebook. Take a look at Startup Metrics. Would friend information be valuable?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2013

Use social media in concert with a web site and offline media. Really, it’s all about having great information, great tools, and the determination to learn what customers really value. entrepreneur startup metrics marketing sales business' The planning is done, and now it’s time to execute. Are your customers coming fast enough?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

It has become the largest art community on the web with huge pockets of global users who never had a website in which to express themselves amongst peers and also find ways to monetize their talents on a global basis. You need to pick wisely because whatever you do, you must do better than other people staring at the same information as you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2016

With today’s overload of information from digital as well as conventional sources, even the best new solutions and services won’t get traction without real marketing. It is search engines, web content, blogs, social media, e-mail direct, on one of many mobile-phone approaches? Firing randomly to see what sticks doesn’t work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

In a world where it’s easier to judge the immediate value of a business, I know that metrics like “time on site&# matter. I’m starting to spend my time evaluating companies that can help brands simultaneously build within the fortress but also maintain social value in the open web. On the open web.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2019

Annual bonuses tied to production metrics are nice, but these will not generate the long-term trust and loyalty you need to set the culture. Everyone prefers informal feedback on their own performance daily, rather than be dependent only on a formal annual review. Provide training and mentoring directed at career growth.

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