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Most Startups Should be Deer Hunters

Both Sides of the Table

It soaked up all of our development resources and didn’t allow us to focus on what we felt our company strategy was. I watched the first two of these customers consume significant portions of our internal programming resources. And when things didn’t go perfectly these organizations had huge leverage over us.

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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

Get Users (= Acquisition, Referral) Drive Usage (= Activation, Retention) Make Money (= Monetize) Startup Challenges Management: Setting priorities, defining key metrics, reporting progress Product: Build the right features, getting product out quickly, testing for conversion/adoption Marketing: Accessing "web 2.0"

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Avoid Monoculture. Travel. Read Widely. Let Experience be Your Compass.

Both Sides of the Table

It was an “enterprise 2.0” panel at the dawn of what people began calling “web 2.0.”. It shows us how the other 6 billion humans live, compete, struggle for resources and find clever ways to rise above their means. (I Esther was talking about problems and entrepreneurs as far away as Russia.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

This continues my series of posts: Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Some great free resources listed this month that I thought were interesting. Another important web 2.0

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Interview with Sunil Rajaraman, Scripped

socalTECH

Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 Zak had an idea for a screen writing magazine, and was trying to make it as a screenwriter, and found out there was a lack of good resources for people trying to scrap and get to the top. We spoke with Sunil Rajaraman, CEO and co-founder of the firm, about the company.

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Kabam Launches The Godfather: Five Families Exclusive to Google+

Tech Zulu Event

According to an announcement at a recent Web 2.0 TGFF includes aspects of competitive interaction, territory building, resource management and synchronous game play create a more immersive game world allowing players to enjoy longer.

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Are we creating a vibrant future for California?

AeA Los Angeles Council

While the growth of Web 2.0 In this position, she has restructured and consolidated Michigan's resources by merging the state's information technology into one centralized department to service 19 agencies and over 1,700 employees.

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