SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Monday, March 12, 2007 MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point The NY Times did a piece today on MyShape, a start-up in Pasadena - Log in Your Measurements, and the Clothes May Fit. “They’re probably a little ahead of their time,&# she said.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? In it he separates web consumers into: Time Rich (more time than money) and Time Poor (more money than time).

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Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

it's up to the Board or CEO) One or more financial metrics Balanced scorecard For very early stage startups (e.g.  It is just too hard to see out 12+ months with any certainty to be able to pick meaningful metrics.  But today I got an interesting question the answer I wanted to share here.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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Jason Ball

JANUARY 16, 2008

This year’s data focuses on one of the same two metrics used last year price/EBIT (no price/sales data was provided). What’s clear though is that the multiples for 2007 are trending down from those of 2006… If you’re an entrepreneur out fundraising, you need to keep these multiples in mind.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Paul Graham When I moved to the east coast in 2007 I made it a goal to see Joel Spolsky and Paul Graham speak at some point. Overall, Dharmesh’s talk was filled with behind the scenes metrics from his company, HubSpot , and actionable points for SEO, Twitter, and social media. Kathy Sierra “Don’t build a better [X].

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system. This isnt Rails-specific, but we use SimpleDB for dumping a lot of important metrics data, like performance measurements, which we then turn into metrics.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. Harms (2007) found that economic value was one of the strongest motivators for crowdfunding supporters. Because that number provides a strong influence in donating, you should inflate that metric as much as possible.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. At GRP we sat out 2007 and much of 2008 for that reason and we’re now looking pretty smart for doing so. We all know that. So what took me $2 million at my first company now takes $20,000.

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BeyondVC

MAY 12, 2006

In short, Steve had a simple answer in that Microsoft knows how much a technology asset or new product is worth to Microsoft and then they can compare that to what the value would be using more traditional financial metrics. Open source – more pragmatism coming to the market, not just a religion but needs to deliver real value.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2014

In one line, he couldn’t be clearer as to why you must pay attention to these metrics. I n this 2007 interview with Martin White of IntranetFocus , he says: “Recognize synonyms and different international terms.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

called The Rise of a Insta-Company, which theorized that open source, cheap bandwidth and increasingly falling cost of infrastructure would result in companies being built at a dramatically lower cost than ever before. But that is the real metric of success as far as I am concerned. Back to the top. ARE YOU WINNING AS A FOUNDER?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 16, 2007 F2F Still Matters Kathy Sierra has a great post today: Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. and she provides this picture: It shows that while we slowly approach real-time, realistic virtual conversations, it still isnt quite the same thing as being there.

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