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STARTonomics is NEXT Thurs 10/2 in SF (seats going fast, register now b4 we sell out...)

Hope you folks are registered for STARTonomics next Thursday 10/2 in SF... if not, hurry up & register now, FOOL!  we've had a rush of signups in the last few days, so get in now before we sell out.

here's a preview of our speakers & sessions for next week:

Startonomics: Simple, Actionable Metrics for Startup Success

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Time	Session	Who
9:00 - 9:30	Welcome to Startonomics & Startup Metrics for Pirates (AARRR!) Overview of conference agenda + Intro to Startonomics: how to create simple, actionable metrics to help startups make better decisions in product development & marketing.	Dave McClure 500 Hats LLC
9:30 - 10:00	Product Development 101: Designing & Optimizing the DNA of a Killer App What does it take to plan, research, and develop a great web 2.0 application?  Learn tips & best practices for setting the right process, goals, and metrics for your startup.	Dan Olsen YourVersion
10:00 - 10:30	Scalability for Startups: How to Grow Up without Blowing Up How do startups balance performance and scalability vs. fast iteration and cost efficiency? Learn how to scale your startup without blowing up, or overdoing it.	Frank Mashraqi Give Real
10:30 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:30	Putting the Fun in Functional: New Trends in Applying Game Design to Web 2.0 Startups Find out how traditional game design mechanics can be used to make a website more compelling & engaging.	Amy Jo Kim Shuffle Brain
11:30 - 12:00	Marrying Design & Development: a Match made in Heaven, not Hell Learn about the basic fundamentals of web design, and find out how developers and designers can work together to create great websites and applications.	Jeff Veen Small Batch, Inc. Erika Hall Mule Design Studio
12:00 - 12:30	Sit! Stay! Click!  How to Create a Website that Makes Users Beg for More The best startups engage their users as fans for life.  Find out how to get users to fall in love with your website, and keep them coming back for more.	Ted Rheingold Dogster, Inc.
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch
1:30 - 2:00	Creating & Implementing a Web 2.0 Marketing Plan How to design and implement an online marketing plan for acquiring users from multiple marketing channels, how to prioritize & mix channels based on stage of startup growth.	Sean Ellis Startup Marketing
2:00 - 2:30	Searching for Users: SEO as an Engine for Customer Acquisition Learn SEO strategies and techniques for acquiring startup users & customers from search engines, links, & blogging.	Stephan Spencer Netconcepts
2:30 - 3:00	Social Media & Word-of-Mouth Marketing for Startups Digg, Delicious, Twitter.  Word of mouth has never been sexier.  Learn how to use social media & social bookmarking to spread the word to your mother.	Muhammad Saleem ACS
3:00 - 3:30	Arch Viral: Creating Social Apps for Social Platforms Facebook & MySpace are the largest social networks on the planet.  Find out how to create a social application for these platforms that's so viral it's an epidemic.	Lance Tokuda RockYou
3:30 - 4:00	Break
4:00 - 4:30	Revenue: The Internet Wants to Be Free, but You Need to Get Paid Learn how to generate revenue using a variety of business models & strategies including advertising, digital goods, subscriptions, lead generation, & e-commerce.	Andrew Chen Futuristic Play
4:30 - 5:00	Customer Service is the New Marketing Want more customers?  No problem... just deliver great customer service.  Find out how to make satisfaction  your most valuable viral marketing campaign.	Thor Muller Get Satisfaction
5:00 - 5:30	Funding Wisdom: What I Wish I Knew Then Forget the school of hard knocks - this is your chance to hear what 3 successful startup executives learned about the funding process, including timing considerations, types of funding, term sheets and working with investors.	Saar Gur Charles River Ventures Peter Pham BillShrink Manish Chandra Kaboodle Garrett Camp StumbleUpon
6:00 - 9:00	After Party Reception hosted by MySpace.com

Tim O'Reilly: "Web Meets World" (Web 2.0 Expo, NY08)

nice to see Tim up on SlideShare :)  more presentations from Web 2.0 Expo NY

Tim O'Reilly, Web 2.0 Expo NY 2008

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"Stop Throwing Sheep & Do Something WORTHY!" - Tim O'Reilly, 09/18/08

and Now for Something Completely Different... (LoveFoXXX Monkey Dance, Cansei de Ser Sexy)

ok, just got back from SeedCamp 2008 in London, & a brief layover in NYC to hookup with some friends for dinner. here's a quick CSS diversion b4 i go gonzo next 2 weeks on Startup2Startup, Startup Metrics, & STARTonomics... enjoy :)

SeedCamp 2008: congrats to BaseKit, Kyko, MobClix, Soup, Stupeflix, Toksta, UberVu :)

I had a great time being an advisor / mentor for SeedCamp 2008 in London this past week.  i'll be writing up a longer post on my experience there over the weekend, but just wanted to give a quick shout-out to the winners, as well as other startups & advisors who participated.  In particular, thanks to Saul Klein & Reshma Sohoni for inviting me over to London to present my Startup Metrics for Pirates (AARRR!) talk for the SeedCamp participants... it was a blast :)

Congrats to the SeedCamp 2008 winners:

• Basekit, Chepstow, Wales, England – www.basekit.com – a service for making building complex websites easy
• Kyko (nee Babuki), Oxford, England – a service for multi-player social gaming
• Mobclix, San Francisco, US – www.mobclix.com – rich analytics and targeted advertising platform for the iPhone
• Soup, Vienna, Austria – www.soup.io – simple way for anyone to share and publish experiences online
• Stupeflix, Paris, France – www.stupeflix.com – platform for turning photos into shareable videos in real time
• Toksta, Berlin, Germany – www.toksta.com – IM and video chat for social networks
• uberVU, Bucharest, Romania – www.ubervu.com – service for tracking and analyzing conversations across the web

Seedcamp Day 5  Highlights from Seedcamp on Vimeo.

Andrew Chen: Solves Unified Field Theorem for Bkfst, Whips Out "6 Steps to Startup Analytics" B4 Lunch.

Sometimes i like to brag i skipped 2 grades, never graduated from high school, and started college at Johns Hopkins when i was 16.  Then of course i meet folks like Andrew Chen who graduated when he was only 14 (think he started at 12), has helped create a very successful startup, was an entrepreneur-in-residence at MDV, and i realize... um, i ain't all that.

As further evidence of me playing Salieri to Andrew's Mozart (sans poisoning, tho i do lay claim to Patron Saint of Silicon Valley Mediocrity), i am compelled to point out Andrew's latest masterpiece "The First 6 Steps to Homegrowing Basic Startup Analytics". 

While i weakly hope my Startup Metrics for Pirates lays down some basic fundamentals, i do not even begin to delude myself my simple melody can approach Andrew's 16-part symphonic grandeur, with both strategy & tactics laid out in brilliant & comprehensive detail.

Andrew: You Da Man.

(btw, did i mention i recruited Andrew to speak at STARTonomics in San Francisco on October 2nd?  if you can't beat 'em... get 'em to join up :)

Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London)

Here is the latest & greatest Startup Metrics for Pirates (AARRR!) presentation i'm doing today for all the SeedCamp 2008 startups here in London.  For those of you who've seen earlier versions, i've added a few new twists like the "1-Page Business Model" that i hope make it better. 

Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008)

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We'll also be covering these topics at our STARTonomics conference in San Francisco on October 2nd (now is a great time to register :)

remember: Friday, Sept. 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day... AARRR!

Startup Metrics: Example Marketing Channels

Startup Metrics: Example Marketing Channels
Originally uploaded by davemc500hats

This probably needs to be simplified more... republishing it now just to get some feedback before i present at SeedCamp.com

U like?  U hate?  what parts?

feed me in the comments.

Updated Sample User Conversion Metrics / Dashboard

Example Conversion Metrics
Originally uploaded by davemc500hats

here's a simpler example of user conversion metrics (the old one i did was a little too complicated).

Startup Metrics: The 1-Page Business Model

The 1-Page Business Model
Originally uploaded by davemc500hats

i'm flying to London today to do an new version of Startup Metrics for Pirates at SeedCamp 2008.

i've been refining a few ideas, and i'll be using this example "1-Page Business Model" to describe how startups should design  & prioritize features & development process.

TonchiDot Sekai Camera (aka World Camera): "Look Up, Not Down! We Have Patent! Imagine... Join Us!"

TonchiDot Sekai Camera was without a doubt the most amazing & hysterical presentation at TechCrunch50 this year... never seen anything like that demo, or the Q&A that came after. 

The entire room was spellbound, then laughing uncontrollably at the Q&A responses ("Look Up, Not Down!  We Have Patent!  Imagine!  Join Us!").  Almost never see Jason Calacanis & Michael Arrington speechless, but it happened.  Several audience members gave the presenters a standing O.