If these numbers work out, then often scaling is more a question of capital. Quite often the goal is to get them into an excel spreadsheet in a form that allows people to easily play with them. Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure . What Dave McClure's presentation does is point to some additional metrics that are useful to think about and consider: A : Acquisition - where / what channels do users come from? A : Activation - what % have a "happy" initial experience? R : Retention - do they

San Diego-based Active Network, which operates a network of online sites focused on community and sports organizations, has acquired ReserveAmerica, a provider of campground reservations, owned by IAC. According to IAC and Active, IAC will sell 100% of its capital stock in ReserveAmerica Holdings, Ltd. to Active in exchange for approximately 3.5 million sharse of Active, convertible preferred stock. The move will make IAC a 9 percent owner of The Active Network.

Torrance-based Active Storage a developer of RAID products for Apple computers, has raised a Series A funding round, the firm said Tuesday afternoon. said the funding was led by Intel Capital, and also included Mission Ventures and Valhalla Partners. The firm said its founders were responsible for Apple's Active STorage XRAID products. The company--which was founded by former executives at Apple, Inc.--said Amount of the funding was not disclosed.

Torrance-based Active Storage , a venture-backed developer of RAID products for Apple computers, said this week that it has released an upgraded iPhone application, which allows its customers to monitor its products directly from their phone. The firm is backed by Intel Capital, Mission Ventures, and Valhalla Partners, and was founded by former Apple executives. Among updates to the software are better connectivity and support options in the case of component failures in the firm's storage devices. The firm said that the ability to monitor its products from the iPhone--which is

Torrance-based Active Storage , a venture backed developer of storage products for the Apple market, announced a new, 32TB RAID product this morning. According to Active Storage, the new 3U product is specifically targeted at media production and Apple professionals, and includes an iPhone monitoring app and native Mac OS X storage management software. Active Storage is headed by ex-Apple executives, and is venture backed by The firm said the new product starts at $19,999. ...Tags: Tags: data raid apple macintosh storage activ

This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital . But I’m no longer an entrepreneur – I’m a VC at a $200 million fund called GRP Ventures , the largest active fund in Southern California.  Many VCs who do lots of seed stage deals are very supportive and active.  This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. A

Venture capital fundraising activity dropped significantly in Q4, according to a report released Monday by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). The report, which tracks the fundraising activity of venture capital firms, found that there was $3.4 billion in forty-three venture capital funds raised in Q4 of 2008, down from $8.4 billion in the prior quarter, and down significantly from the $11.7 billion raised in Q4 of 2007.

Are they actively listening?  Do Sometimes this is enough to pry the VC out of their shell and into an active discussion.  But Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capita photo courtesy of Atlanta Braves This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC .” 8221;

Investors in venture capital funds have caused the problem.   First, they themselves have massive amounts of capital to put to work and it is extremely time consuming and difficult to pick new managers and to deploy smaller amounts of capital.   First, when you are putting that amount of capital to work in a given deal, by definition you need BIG exits to drive returns.   Saturday’s TechCrunch had an article with the title above…  the “end” of traditional VC has been something that we (and many others) have been predicting for a while.   The

They also talked about their outlook on the venture capital market, and how likely they are to be investing this year, given the worried economy. Hi We signed two term sheets in the last six weeks, and are actively looking at opportunities. There's some interesting companies that show up in times like this, who can do it without a lot of capital. Back For this morning's interview, we thought we'd try something different, and put together a virtual panel of venture capitalists to give us a few tips on pitching your company. We brought together Peter Cowen of Groundwork