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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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I ran my first marathon in London this way in 2003 raising $3,000 for Parkinson’s disease (and finishing in under 4 hours – my publicly stated goal). How many through affiliate deals? Usually you have a catch-all bucket for “direct” or similar that often came through PR or word-of-mouth. How many adds came through organic SEO?

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BizMe2 is Looking to Disrupt Conferences with Turnkey Solution (Interview)

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Yair Margolin: I was a member of the core team at Peerapp in 2003, a supplier of caching solutions for ISPs. It’s usually hard to figure out who to meet and there’s a range of events within the events, entertainment cocktails, Pr events in restaurants nearby, but there’s no easy way to find out about them.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. So frequently embarrassing failures are masked by spinning PR or fudging numbers to give the illusion of success. As Seth said, the first meebo idea he came up with was in 2003. get to know each other first, etc.