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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

The metrics, and how they relate, are captured in his slide: Note the relationship between retention/referral efforts and lifetime value. R : Retention - Do they come back & re-visit over time? R : Referral - Do they like it enough to tell their friends? R : Revenue - Can you monetize any of this behavior?

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Mobile Internet Apple Facebook

SoCal CTO

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, Faster Cycles They also talk about waves lasting 10 years, but it’s a lot messier than that and the cycle times are much faster. social networking, etc. that’s been a cycle much shorter than 10 years.

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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

These are captured fairly well by his slide: The beauty of what he's defined is the relationship between retention and referral efforts and lifetime value. R : Retention - do they come back & re-visit over time? R : Referral - do they like it enough to tell their friends? R : Revenue - can you monetize any of this behavior? Great stuff.

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Interview with David Sacks, Geni and Yammer

socalTECH

You could just sit and add people to your own family tree program, but people hadn't applied Web 2.0-style, There's Reid Hoffman at LinkedIn, Jeremy Stoppelman at Yelp, Max Levchin founded Slide--there's a number of successful and high profile companies founded by PayPal alumni.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

The money slide is the graphic below. AJAX was one of the major drivers of the “dot com renaissance” that became known as Web 2.0. Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. The chart shows three scarce resources and their improvements over time.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 But let’s be honest – they’re mostly the same old shit as Web 1.0, So what changed that ushered in the new era that was officially dubbed Web 2.0? Social Networking in Web 2.0: And importantly Web 2.0

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0 Forum December 9th Lineup - Startup Houston , November 27, 2010 When to step on the gas and go for it?

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