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5 Essential Spreadsheets for Social Media Analytics

mashable.com

Extract and Archive Your Followers. Copy the spreadsheet here. Spreadsheet credit: AutomateAnalytics.com. Count Facebook Likes and Shares. FacebookLikes script evaluates Facebook user interaction for any given range of URLs. It will display: Facebook like count. Facebook share count. Facebook comment count. Overall Facebook interaction.

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

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Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. Giant leap in home automation just needs a kickstart. million of what partners hope will be a much larger fund. Meanwhile, SEC filings indicate that Frazier Healthcare and Voyager Capital — both of Seattle — are on the prowl for more money.

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Faith-Based versus Fact-Based Decision Making « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Reply Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 7th - The zeitgeist daily , on June 7, 2009 at 1:20 am Said: [.] You start a company on a vision; on a series of Faith-based hypotheses. Fact-based Execution However, successfully executing a startup requires the company to become Fact-based as soon as it can.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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We’d love to see these given the number of businesses you see and ultimately invest in. It would be an admission that you’re not infallible, but we already know that. If we’ve missed a great post-mortem others would benefit from reading, please leave it in the comments, and we’ll add it. It’s free. Get started here.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

Two years out of the Air Force, serendipity (which would be my lifelong form of career planning) found me in Silicon Valley working for my first company: ESL. If you’re an entrepreneur, ESL is the most important company you’ve never heard of. If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born.

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Software Startup Myths Debunked

www.singlefounder.com

I’ve sat idly by and watched as these misconceptions are repeated as fact time and time again. I’d like to take a few minutes to dispel the top five myths of software startups. This isn’t true by any stretch of the imagination, and I’m not the only one who thinks so. If so, then this is true…for you at least.

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The Software Product Myth

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! Most developers start as salaried employees, slogging through code and loving it because they never imagined a job could be challenging, educational, and downright fun.