As you work to develop your product - before and after launch, it's important that you use more than just "gut feelings" to ascertain what's working and what's not. Along those lines, Ryan Carson, co-founder of Carsonified offered a list of six key metrics for your web app and how to track them.

It's a great list - with definitions, calculation methods, examples, and even a link to a Google spreadsheet...

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/09/6-saas-metrics-you-should-trac.php

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It seems Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz are pushing a system that is supposed to help start-ups work out the terms of their initial financing without running up big legal bills.  I checked out the docs and it's a very sound and cost effective way to get your start-up business going.  Good legal minds behind it too...

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Microsoft's Free Sync Service (...this used to be the FolderShare service and is now part of Microsoft's sync.live.com)

Last week, I (David Pogue) wrote about an underpublicized gem in Microsoft's Windows Live suite of free online and offline

services and programs: SkyDrive. It's a free, 25-gigabyte virtual hard drive on the Internet, accessible from any computer.  My readers gently pointed out that I managed to miss an equally spectacular feature: Windows Live Sync. It's

another very good, very...