Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2023

The technique, “OST” (objective, strategies, and tactics), is a very good way to organize your effort to find guideposts and then develop metrics to measure progress. Email readers, continue here…] Here are some example strategies from some of my companies over the recent years. What is a strategy?

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Creating a gerat company in a relative vacuum is an exercise in complete trust that the entrepreneur knows what’s best for the customer, perhaps even without interaction with such a customer. So, I’ve developed the three step dance in order to help form a repeatable method of how to create a great company from an early idea.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. I am an investor and advisor to one such “eyeballs” company. Microsoft paid $9.00 per registered user for Hotmail.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 30, 2022

More often, you (the leader) set the goal and push for achievement – hopefully establishing a realistic set of strategies and accurate metrics to measure progress along a timeline. A leadership goal vs. a mantra: I once sat in on a roundtable meeting in which the executive of a company stated his goal as “educate the world.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2020

You need to track what content is resonating with your prospective customers, through metrics including submit rate by content offer, elasticity, velocity, cost, and ultimately revenue by content program. Nurturing stage email performance. The fuel for any good demand generation program is relevant, buyer-centric content.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 16, 2022

We can invent lots of metrics to measure progress for a leader, including revenue, profit, employee satisfaction, cost containment, percentage of available market, and more. Email readers, continue here…] More importantly, what if you as a leader haven’t a stated goal for your enterprise? What is your leadership end game goal?

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Investors have to look behind the plan and at the entrepreneur and his or her team, knowing that, over time, most of us have come to the conclusion that it is the execution of the ever-changing plan, not the plan itself that makes a company a success. Tyson’s insight into the realities of the market. Tyson’s statement also addresses change.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 24, 2019

And many of these actions are repetitive to a fault, contributing to boredom and ultimately to restlessness and desire for something new, in or out of the company. Create and publish metrics as goals and comparisons to past accomplishments. The solution that works. There is a solution. Everyone loves a good game.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Email delivery platform SendGrid , which has significant operations in Orange County, said today that it has launched a new app on the iPhone and iPad. SendGrid said the app allows users access to their Sendgrid account and metrics. sendgrid email delivery software iphone ipad mobile smartphone' READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 24, 2021

These are not the strategic visionary skills, like leading companies through risky product launches, or steering the course through economic storms where leaders become oversized personalities for their superhuman efforts. These are the skills of daily operation, the ones that make or break a company – from the top.

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Berkonomics

MAY 18, 2017

The technique, “OST” (objective, strategies and tactics), is a very good way to organize your effort to find guideposts and then develop metrics to measure progress. Here are some example strategies from some of my companies over the recent years. What is a strategy? Yet each is measurable if achieved.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Is it worth the time and effort when measured from the perspective of the company and of the employee? What metrics will you use to fairly evaluate each direct report? One argument: legal protection for the company. Alignment of employee goals with those of the company. In terms of value…well let’s examine that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2021

For example, I commonly see metrics to keep track of revenue per employee, overtime, and absenteeism, but I don’t often see measures of overall customer satisfaction with individual employees. Incentives should be a combination of metrics and recognition to highlight results. Incent and reward employees who delight customers.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Currently, TikTok relies heavily on digital advertising to bring in revenue, although this has not been as reliable of a profit stream in recent months as it has previously and is forcing the company to look for alternative ways to make money. Please fill in your email. By some metrics, certainly not. Please fill in your name.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

NOT because the founder of the company has an established credibility working for both Facebook and MINT when those companies were in infancy. I am a raving fan of AppSumo because the creator of the brand, Noah Kagan , leads his company focusing on community first and sales second. His email list is everything.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What are your key Startup Metrics ? What set of functionality would make your company launch-ready? Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Email - are you sending out emails periodically?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

Facebook has created an environment where millions of people can hold billions of conversations with people and companies, transforming how people expect to interact with each other and the world. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. Data enable: use metrics and measurements.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What are your key Startup Metrics ? What set of functionality would make your company launch-ready? Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Email - are you sending out emails periodically?

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Berkonomics

JULY 15, 2021

The culture of the company is built day by day by those actions, often centering on the founder’s vision and management style with little room for deviation. Email readers, continue here…] I’ve seen this happen so many times, it is almost a rule for me. Why is this so often a problem? which unfortunately is a general rule. .

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 6, 2018

There is no scientific proof, no metric to measure the full meaning of “good.” Email readers, continue here…] Surely the ruthless more often win in the short run. But early successes, built upon the broken backs of adversaries, are rarely followed by long- term wins for the tyrant or for the tyrant’s company.

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Berkonomics

JULY 1, 2021

Here’s one that most small company founders and CEO’s miss until it may be too late. What is the role of a chief financial officer in growing and protecting the company? And it extends beyond the usual interpretation of the CFO position in many companies. Where else would there be a knight-protector in a company?

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 5, 2013

It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. No-one challenged this number, and it became an unattributed source of the metric for market size for years. Email readers, continue here.]

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

So, I’ve developed the three-step dance in order to help form a repeatable method of how to create a great company from an early idea. Email readers, continue here…] Making the effort to gather metrics from the field in any form and then ignoring it, takes guts and determination – and in most cases a measure of stupidity.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Investors have to look behind the plan and at the entrepreneur and his or her team, knowing that, over time, most of us have come to the conclusion that it is the execution of the ever-changing plan, not the plan itself that makes a company a success. Email readers, continue here.] Tyson’s statement also addresses change.

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Berkonomics

MAY 5, 2016

It must be the lifeblood of a company that is going to make a difference in an industry or the world. Many times it is a customer, an employee, or an industry conference that sparks the idea that drives you to create and express your vision of the future for your company or product line.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

And many of these actions are repetitive to a fault, contributing to boredom and ultimately to restlessness and desire for something new, in or out of the company. Create and publish metrics as goals and comparisons to past accomplishments. There is a solution. Everyone loves a good game.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Netflix employees staged a walkout yesterday in response to the company’s handling of a Dave Chappelle special that premiered on October 5. But Sarandos doubled down on his defense of the special, writing an internal email that “content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm.” Several things can be true.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

In a funding round with 1 or 2 VCs and 15-20 angels or 4-6 seed funds if you gave every investor you financial information and performance metrics your proprietary information would increase in its probability of leaking out. We are doing what we do – writing larger checks and playing an active role at the company.

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Berkonomics

MAY 20, 2021

Enterprise time, as opposed to personal time management, is the sum total of resources available to a company expressed in terms of time – time to develop, to debug, to produce, to deploy, to respond to issues, and to make changes in plans that are not working. But first, identify what those critical resources are in your company.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 6, 2018

There is no scientific proof, no metric to measure the full meaning of “good.” Email readers, continue here…] Surely the ruthless more often win in the short run. But early successes, built upon the broken backs of adversaries, are rarely followed by long- term wins for the tyrant or for the tyrant’s company.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

These are not the strategic visionary skills, like leading companies through risky product launches, or steering the course through economic storms where leaders become oversized personalities for their superhuman efforts. These are the skills of daily operation, the ones that make or break a company – from the top.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. I would likely open up your deck, read it again and begin contemplating your company again.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

The company recently raised $8M in a funding from Evolution Media, Aspect Ventures, Upfront Ventures, as well as a long list of angels. We have them add their name, email address, and input the percent amount. How did you start the company? What's the biggest lesson you've learned so far in starting up a company?

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, we investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. Email readers, continue here.] I am an investor and advisor to one such company. Microsoft paid $9.00

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Growth like this, this early in a company’s lifecycle rarely happens. Email updates frequently. And as Rob points out – if you email members with short updates more frequently they are more up to speed when you do need them to weigh in. Make your emails actionable. ” Or, “I sent u an email.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

He's also led significant technology projects for a very impressive list of companies including Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, HP, Sun, and the list goes on. Its common for startups to think about services like hosting/computing, storage, analytics, maps, email delivery and tracking, and eCommerce. Tony has a Ph.D.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2016

push for achievement – hopefully establishing a realistic set of strategies and accurate metrics to measure progress along a timeline. I recently sat in on a roundtable meeting in which the executive of a company stated his goal as “educate the world.” More often, you (the leader) set the goal and.

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