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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

Next, define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. Don’t overcomplicate things with reporting tools. Another thing that Dave has done well is to look at the value of different marketing channels: There’s a lot of value in this presentation. Be sure to check out the entire presentation.

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Daily Crunch: Twitter will delete dormant accounts

TechCrunch LA

“As part of our commitment to serve the public conversation, we’re working to clean up inactive accounts to present more accurate, credible information people can trust across Twitter,” the company said. This follows reports that the streaming company is also working to buy the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 9

TechEmpower

The NUMA architecture presented a variety of challenges including unexpected difficulty scaling the database servers to utilize all available CPU cores. The hardware specifications used in Round 9 were not well-optimized for the web-app use case our project exercises. For example, we are using MySQL 5.5 in both environments.).

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Announcing Projector?—?A Startup I’ve Been Excited to Tell You About for Years

Both Sides of the Table

We know that good visual storytelling can be persuasive and we know that it is also important to retaining key information after a presentation has been completed or a report has been shared. You know when you want to grab an image off of the web and you can’t quite size it so that it fits in Keynote or Powerpoint?

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Why Venture Capital is So Much More Compelling Now

Both Sides of the Table

.” The most recent was 18 months ago or so called The Kauffman Report. It had an influence on the people who fund our industry in a negative way as many asset managers who fund our industry read this flawed report. That’s a shame because many of these people missed out on what will be a few great VC vintages.

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Mobile Internet Apple Facebook

SoCal CTO

The analysts at Morgan Stanley have produced a report that’s quite good reading on some of the major trends concerning mobile web. And it’s interesting that while they talk about the impact of Facebook, they don’t quite seem to recognize the impact of Web 2.0, social networking, etc.

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Another personal story: Timing is everything in a sale.

Berkonomics

After presenting a “state of the company” report at a national meeting of resellers for a company where I sat on the board, I was approached by one of the audience members, complimenting my presentation and stating, “I have a problem. The background for my story. The year was 1998. The surprise I could not ignore.

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