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A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars.

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. Great stuff. Jason looks at the issues around "sunk cost." Good stuff from Jason.

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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

YoungUpstarts

Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. This also applies in acquisition conversations. by Anish Sebastian and Juan Pablo Segura, co-founders of Babyscripts. Exacerbating the problem are the subjective standards by which many young companies are evaluated.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Our categorization is not a technical one. This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. Otherwise, Ive not seen much. *

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Working with Developers

SoCal CTO

It may give non-technical founders a bit more insight into working styles when it comes to developers. If you’ve ever seen an athlete use a big word in a slightly wrong way, that’s how you sound when you use technical language and you don’t quite know what it means. Adding pressure to this conversation makes it tougher.

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Segment vs Mparticle

ConversionXL

Whether you’re looking to improve conversions or retention CDP’s can provide a holistic view of both your opportunities and areas for improvement. As we wrote previously : Back to those (early) days when Marketing Automation was just born, the world was web-centric. Michael Katz the cofounder and CEO of mParticle.