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A full day of Lean Startup Workshops on December 4, 2012

Startup Lessons Learned

You’ll come away with techniques for: putting data to work in a startup; understanding the long funnel from awareness to engagement; finding the One Metric That Matters; and applying analytics at every stage of the business, from need discovery through to exit.

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. Our investment thesis is simple: Blockchains will impact trillions of dollars of economic activity across many industries globally. We look for projects and protocols that can rethink major classes of global commerce.

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Target Future Customers Using Financial Metrics

The Startup Magazine

After failing to complete adequate due diligence before acquiring Autonomy in 2012, they ended up with losses of around $5 billion. Once you have access to a company’s financial metrics, you can use it in several ways in order to assess the risks that they might pose to your business. Just look at the example of Hewlett-Packard.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I’m the founder, ex Hewlett-Packard Director of Advertising and former SVP at Millward Brown (global brand/ad research firm owned by WPP). We’ve had a supportive board and encouraging metrics and a helpful climate for our community news notion (now 51 sites in 3 states). We three partners are working hard. And Why 20%?

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

2) Groupon’s Far More International Than Most Realize : Most casual observers know that Groupon’s been buying similar daily deal businesses in other global regions (starting in May 2010), and doing some organic expansion internationally too. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? And Why 20%?

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Cracking The Code: Global warming: a plague for humanity?

Cracking the Code

Global warming: a plague for humanity? After all, global warming might not be a bad thing for everyone. ► 2012. (1). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! Cracking The Code. Friday, March 30, 2007. Online Gaming. (1). Portfolio. (3).

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Cracking The Code: BlablaCar - Travel Revolution

Cracking the Code

Monday, January 16, 2012. ▼ 2012. (1). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. BlablaCar - Travel Revolution.