SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. Weve also found that other social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment.

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Haystack

JULY 4, 2019

If a founder I’ve backed simply sends 5-7 bullet points per month with some key stats, metrics, and requests for specific connections and help, then over time I follow their “story” and it becomes a part of my daily vocabulary. The investors don’t own or run the company.

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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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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites.

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Altgate

JANUARY 17, 2009

You touch a facility and you see data about what is going on there; for example for call centers you see customer support metrics. I was impressed that FCAT was not just looking into data visualization and manipulation, but also at social networking and communities. The facility is the kind of lab that startups fantasize about.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Instead of investors holding onto proprietary connections and introductions for their portfolio companies, these relationships are being displaced by the dominate social networks ( Facebook , Linkedin , Quora ). startupcto

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

During the next four months, we will examine over a dozen entrepreneurial ventures from a diverse mix of industries - technology, service, food & beverage, and fashion. I think this same concept plays into what Ive seen happening a lot more in the venture community: partners at VC firms jumping back into entrepreneurial ventures.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Its Ok to Exit a Little Early -StubHub was experiencing great growth and hitting its metrics when Ebay acquired the company in early 2007 It is quite possible that Jeff could have gotten a higher price for the company by waiting, but felt there were a number of benefits to exiting when they did. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

Everyone seems to know someone who has raised huge amounts of venture capital without ever putting together even back of the envelope projections. What are the key drivers and metrics? Byron Deeter has a good blog post on SAAS metrics. Labels: entrepreneurial finance , financial analysis , venture capital.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Because I left each investor meeting with a plan for my company’s growth, investors were able to measure my actual metrics developed over time against my initial projections. He has founded 7 startups to date, including sixdegrees, the first social network, and he advises many others. Have Patience. And we did.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

seems to be the single metric and motivational driver to countless tech VCs and founders today and why so many founders and early employees get burned out with the grind of startups. Social media is littered with tales of companies that withered under the pressure of hypergrowth, were crushed by so-called ‘toxic V.C.s’

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

While the aforementioned example may not fit every startup, regardless, you need to have an actionable, scalable business model with measurable metrics (downloads, customers, etc.) In other words, angel investors and early stage venture capital (VC) firms will have different expectations than late stage VC firms.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. This slide reinforces the fact that we achieved a valuable outcome in series A (building the network), so it made sense not to have revenue yet. The usual tempo for raising money from venture capital is at a minimum of a year between financings.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. And what we think about Sequoia’s website , First Round Capital’s and True Ventures (we both like to copy stuff from True).

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

It puts everything in one place with an easy to follow user interface, works with Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, YouTube, Tumblr, and WordPress, and has incorporated analytics so you can stay on top of your metrics. AddThis : Add social sharing to your site quickly and easily. Project management software. Outsourcing work.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Then from a bottoms-up standpoint what you said is exactly right, I think, which is that the new generation of employees grew up on smartphones and tablets and touch and everything, social networking and Twitter and everything else. Alexia Tsotsis: Yes, and we are watching that now. So this is a big part of what actually we do.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. There were no social networks, let alone sharing economy then, so it took a while to take off. We’ve been tracking employee morale, before and during the crisis, using NPS as a key company metric. We were very proactive though.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

So I switched careers into venture capital because I wanted to learn the ways of valuing private companies. HW: When you dove into the world of anti-vaxxers you encountered some really interesting conclusions about how extreme groups use social media effectively, and how traditional voices are getting drowned out.

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Social Media Campaign Media Marketing 82

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s) - Steve Blank , July 15, 2010 If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. Metrics availability. Here’s why. Not so bad.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. They typically started before high school — sometimes before middle school — and never looked back. They’ve tried everything. Everything, that is, but.NET. 7% of cell phone market.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Social networking. Social/Sharing. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents.

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