SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. in Computer Science.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I recently wrote a blog post that I believe is worth pointing out in the context of the strategy roundtables: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects? I'd like to hear from venture capitalists, angel investors, incubators, and accelerators on this topic. His firm invests in four. CricketWeekly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. It's as simple as that, and that is what metrics are to me. I'm an engineer. We were expecting twins.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

I also advised Antonio to defer his investor road show and even customer acquisition programs until this basic positioning exercise is in place. Cristina currently has a couple of large customers in pilot mode, and is starting to show metrics on how much improvement IDES can deliver over existing analytics engines.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Spread through word-of-mouth as the company has no sales team, all engineers. It’s awesome.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

Top engineering talent today has a bimodal distribution. The Series A is now the fourth round of funding for a company — the first is usually friends and family, or an incubator (~$50K), then pre-seed (~$500K), then seed (~$2M), then Series A (~$6M-$15M). The Seed round is larger — closer to and sometimes upwards of $2M.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A CEO brought in from a large company came with all the big company accoutrements – org charts, HR departments with formal processes and procedure handbooks, formal waterfall engineering methodology, sales compensation plans, etc. — all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Series A is now the fourth round of funding for a company — the first is usually friends and family, or an incubator (~$50K), then pre-seed (~$500K), then seed (~$2M), then Series A (~$6M-$15M). If the Micro-VCs are looking for Series A-like metrics, what does a company do when it’s just getting started? Engineering Capital.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. We think we can do better.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Being a resource-constrained entrepreneur, I wanted a co-founder because even if I got a paid engineer or an outsourced team to build it, I would still need to build a team, and there would be continuous development needs. Then, what’s missing — clearly an engineer — and why do I want a partner?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. 10) Metrics.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

We tried, and opted out of, potentials for pivots; we pitched for game-changing partners and acquisitions that did not ultimately convert. Even though most of this message was already drafted, we also had a Hail Mary of a final acquisition conversation that closed the following morning. That’s a metric! in a huge $77b market.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

That moves into the customer acquisition strategy. This includes again another acronym I’m going to share, CAC, the cost to acquire a customer, the customer acquisition cost. It’s rare that investors will invest in a company that’s all engineers, or all creative. Are you doing an acquisition?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 30, 2011

The product has been validated on campaigns by a dozen major Indian brands and agencies, and has shown great metrics. The revenue models need to be revisited, and the customer acquisition strategy as well. The product has been validated on campaigns by a dozen major Indian brands and agencies, and has shown great metrics.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

I’ll give the example of the acquisition of CardMunch by LinkedIn. A few months later, after the product had launched, the CardMunch team went to an event, and happened to run into an engineer from LinkedIn. The plethora of funding sources for every stage of development of a company makes for a very efficient funding environment.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

I’ll give the example of the acquisition of CardMunch by LinkedIn. A few months later, after the product had launched, the CardMunch team went to an event, and happened to run into an engineer from LinkedIn. The plethora of funding sources for every stage of development of a company makes for a very efficient funding environment.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

With competitors in the US often 10 times bigger, they’d become an acquisition target. In several countries, you went through small acquisitions, in others it was larger acquisitions, and in others you started from scratch. When would you go for an acquisition versus an organic launch? We were very proactive though.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Research, Web prototyping, Testing and Building Tools Lists of Tools from Others HBS Startup Tribe Tools List – from Tom Eisenmann at HBS PBworks startup tools List Startup Foundry tools list Small Business tools list Groups Lean Startup Circle – Google Group for startup advice Startup Weekend – Launch a Startup in 54 hours The Lean (..)

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? great web customer acquisition tutorials. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Google App Engine â?? Check them out. Very responsive.

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