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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? What are your key Startup Metrics ? If you launched tomorrow, how many users would you forecast? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? What about other kinds of viral outreach? How will you be taking this to market? Wireframes?

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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

ReadWriteStart

TikTok and Influencers One viral video on TikTok can reach 1.5 Conferences are significant events for networking and getting to know people in your industry when you are a newbie to the business. 2 Brainstorming, Forecasting, and Modeling Brainstorming within an expert team can be as effective as monitoring market trends.

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

In comparison, the overall technology sector growth was projected at 9-10% in early 2010 and this forecast did not change significantly today. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Feedburner Network. Paperblog network. ► 06/17 - 06/24. (1). Save the planet!

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). First and foremost, we believed there would be a “professional” social network.

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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

Forecasting is sometimes done by dragging the mouse based on many assumptions, because it’s hard to predict the future. One question that keeps coming up when speaking with early stage entrepreneurs when it comes to funding, is what metrics the company needs to hit to raise seed/series A/B etc: What’s a good conversion rate?

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Cracking The Code: State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment

Cracking the Code

So, here is the first edition, including the recent Q4 2009 earnings and the updated 2010 forecast. If we consider that 2009 was probably the worst year in the past 5 years, forecasting the same growth for 2010 is not very encouraging. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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How to Use Growth Hacking to Increase Revenue 20x in Just 12 Months

Up and Running

See Also: A Complete Guide to Forecasting Sales for Your Monthly Subscription (SaaS) Business. This is when metrics come into play. There are a number of other variables here like virality (the chances of a user referring another user), but I don’t want to overcomplicate things. Lean marketing. Successful and failed experiments.

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