SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2010

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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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

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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Metrics Startup Slides Technical Review 260

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

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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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

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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Metrics Startup Web 2.0 Slides 225

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0:

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

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. It was a very difficult environment.

Yammer 133

Yammer Geni Startup Southern California 133

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I guess that’s why I encouraged people to raise money while the getting’s good (PPT slides & video). So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. Yesterday was a Monday. And not a pleasant one. When I first got into the industry it was 2007.

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