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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. A FB ad targeted at one person (my wife) - Gabriel Weinberg , May 14, 2010 The other day I gave a presentation with Steve Welch on the use of social media in politics. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. they have purchasing intent ).*.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process.

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? share Powerpoints and docs with customers. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Crescendo Networks.