SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Google Maps Mobile I recently downloaded Google Maps Mobile for my Treo. Its works great. And there was a big surprise. It includes traffic! This is something that Ive wanted on my wifes GPS for a while. If you havent checked it out, its pretty amazing.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Kevin Federline Search Engine Just saw a post - Sleep with a pop star, get your own branded search engine. talking about Prodeges Search with Kevin Site - [link]. I actually think this is a pretty innovative model. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics. About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? I used an image from Roger Smith that describes the varying roles of a CTO as the company matures.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. This company was started by Victoria Duff (who many of us know from back in the late 90s), Phillis Lane (who I have known for quite a few years) and Jon Bukosky.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Where LinkedIn Works for Me Ive been a long time user of LinkedIn , but only recently have started getting the benefits I always expected. Im sure that many of you have read Guys article Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Stanford Podcasts - eHarmony - Greg Waldorf I was just pointed to a set of great podcasts done by Stanford B-School and particularly, I just listed to the podcast by eHarmonys Greg Waldorf. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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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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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, February 23, 2007 Events and Networking in Los Angeles One of the issues I discussed in Innovation and Geography was that the geography and traffic in Los Angeles generally makes it more difficult for networking. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. I saw this kind of pricing when I first entered the VC market in 2007. Another firm we saw tried to raise $15 million at a $60 million pre-money with similar metrics. It was early 2000.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Here at Palo Alto Software in 2007 and 2008, we embraced these planning concepts and moved towards a more agile planning process. Beyond tracking key financial metrics such as cash, sales, expenses, accounts receivable, and accounts payable, businesses must track the other key metrics that are critical to their success.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2013

Here, consumption metrics (eg downloads, views), advocacy and sharing metrics (shares, likes, retweets), lead-generation metrics (filling up an online form), and sales metrics come into play. Finally, one should develop a way to effectively measure how Youtility assists in driving business performance.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

His most recent company, Filtrbox, participated in the inaugural Techstars class (Techstars Boulder 2007) and was a win for all parties involved; Filtrbox was acquired in 2010 by Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE). No updates, screen comps, or metrics have been publicly shared yet. Three months in, the burn is now at $70k/month.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

That’s why you need to be simultaneously feeding your growth engine , while monitoring churn and your other startup metrics. They refer to these differences as “ Red Flag” Metrics (or RFMs). Total number of logins also proved to be an important metric, though not as much so as the former two. times per day on average.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

link] fnazeeri That’s absolutely correct, although we can look at other metrics like “step up in subsequent rounds&# on which I hopefully will be able to post more soon. Perhaps the are other tell-tale metrics like time required to raise money vs. number of founders…need to think more on that.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

While the data that you care about will likely differ based on your business type, you can bucket it all under general customer satisfaction metrics. Editor’s note : This article was originally published in 2007 and updated for 2021. Things like customer reviews, LTV, and churn will be your go-to data points to start with.

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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. " Well, there are basically three ways you can link pay to performance (in startups): Discretionary (i.e.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Hyundai’s Assurance program, which debuted during the 2007–08 financial crisis, is a great example. De Beers made such an investment, even though a brand campaign could only soften the decline in sales during the 2007–08 crisis: Ally faced a different challenge. What does a thoughtful campaign look like? Prepare for future downturns.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. That metric is tied to a KPI.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2013

I used to live and work in Dubai (2005-2007). A metrics company! It takes a while to understand how its connected. Ultimately it depends what the searcher was looking for. Verdict: the scent is average. #4 That helped me figure this out quicker than some, but it’s a pretty good “never do this” example.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Click Allow Click Install Now After downloading, Restart Firefox 5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups by Alex on December 18, 2007 · 13 comments Even 5 years ago an approach to infrastructure in a startup would have been different. Tracking results is useful for metrics, which, in turn, help measure growth and success of the company.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

Irfan started off with 100 such rickshaws in 2007 and have 300,000 today. Irfan doesn’t take a salary but he is as focused on scalability, asset leverage, return on investment and growth metrics as any Silicon Valley entrepreneur ever was. The rickshaw-pullers end up as owners after re-paying the bank loan in installments.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 8, 2008

I was merrily using Time on Page and Time on Site metrics for quite some time before I actually realized how they were being measured. 111.111.111.111 - - [ 08/Oct/2007:11:17:55 -0400 ] "GET / index.html HTTP/1.1" It is important to note that the web metrics program will still say: Tp = 0 minutes. It was a real Doh (!)

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm.

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gtziralis.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Put these, along with your basic operations metrics and core finance numbers in one page and share it with your investors, these are sufficient to get them engaged and updated. December 2007. November 2007. October 2007. September 2007. August 2007. April 2007. March 2007. September 2008.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 1, 2010

What do you think, is this the right way to score these metrics? We decided (so far) that if, for example, a company had 4 executives while there peers had 5, we would “reward&# them in their score for being people efficient.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 28, 2015

16 Startup Metrics – buff.ly/1Nwxfp5. 8 Years, 4 Major Trends: The Evolution of Websites From 2007 to Now crowdspring.co/1NKcIKq. Things the Smartest People Never Do crowdspring.co/1WdhUMQ. The Workplace Culture That Flying Nannies Won’t Fix nytimes.com/2015/08/24/opi…. How to Become an Exceptional Writer crowdspring.co/1LplIr0.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

Gender lens investing is part of the broader genre of “impact investing,” a term coined by the Rockefeller Foundation in 2007 that put a name to investments made with the intention of generating both financial return and social and/or environmental impact. so I am also excited to announce our participation in a project with ACG Inc.,

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. Building off Rob’s original post, let’s continue to look at the 2007 vintage. At that time, the market had enjoyed a decent recovery from the economic crisis of 2008, but hadn’t quite fully recovered to its highs in 2007. Ok, let’s jump in.

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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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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. On a giant wall screen in the main lobby, you see a map of the world with every Fidelity facility. If I were CEO of a large corporation, I would definitely have a “data&# room like this to meet in.

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