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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Are there other founders, business leaders, partners, or administrators? Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? What are your key Startup Metrics ? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? What about other kinds of viral outreach? Who are the other stakeholders involved?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What are your key Startup Metrics ? Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Any other kind of viral outreach? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups. Analytics/Metrics - what are the key startup metrics that you will need to track?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What are your key Startup Metrics ? Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Any other kind of viral outreach? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups. Analytics/Metrics - what are the key startup metrics that you will need to track?

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6 Marketing Accelerators For Boosting Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

You must use self-promotion early and often through viral videos, blogging, and industry leadership, to establish credibility with your customers. Proactively use metrics and customer feedback before a crisis hits, to recognize when a pivot or product adjustment is required. Allocate resources to handle bumps along the way.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ? I gave my boilerplate answer, “I’m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics. Dave McClure has some great metrics…” It was an honest but vaguely unsatisfying answer.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

But in business, you want a lot of partners. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done. 1) Manage the firm .

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Cracking The Code: Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII.

Cracking the Code

Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. 26 Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the oldest venture capital practice in the United States, today announced the closing of a $350 million supplement to its current fund family, BVP VII, which closed in June 2007. 2009 Bessemer Venture Partners. Friday, February 27, 2009.