Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

They helped create over 5 million new businesses in 2022, a forty percent increase over the previous year. Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

What I’m talking about here is a level of discipline and skill necessary to collect and analyze the relevant business data, known as metrics. Here is my selection of ten key metrics that every six-sigma joint like GE tracks without thinking, but too many small businesses only monitor haphazardly, if at all: Sales revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Unfortunately, most of us don’t have enough resources to bootstrap our own startups, so we are completely dependent on investors to help turn great ideas into great businesses. Of course, you need to show how your business will make money and provide an impressive investor return, but that should be only the beginning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2020

In the same way, great entrepreneurs and company leaders should no longer rely on faceless and nameless processes to drive business strategy and innovation to stay competitive. Focus on two or three pertinent metrics in any situation. Keeping it simple is the best course.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Data, however, removes guesswork, biases, and anecdotal reasoning that can throw decision efforts off course. Data helps avoid predetermined (and often erroneous) approaches to solving your people problems. Use data analysis and metrics to measure for results. Working on the wrong problem or assumption.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

” It helps to have seen the way down twice before to know many of the signs. Of course back then it literally was sold in a package and stored on a shelf! Create company measures for success that go beyond financial metrics. And as I always assert, “Great companies are built in downturns. Sales Startup Lessons'

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Of course, you can’t possibly brand yourself if you don’t know who you really are. Oprah Winfrey was helped in her career by her relationship with Barbara Walters. Proactively use metrics and customer feedback before a crisis hits, to recognize when a pivot or product adjustment is required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Of course, margin and profitability are important, but must be committed to adding more value to the lives of your clients, and making the world a better place. Measure progress through metrics on sales, revenue, and penetration. Define and focus on a mission to add value. Make customer experience your key priority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

You need to move to right location and get connected before you ask for help. Of course, there are always exceptions, but how much added risk do you need for your startup? Exposure instills the fear and urgency you need to deliver the right competitive solution. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2021

Of course, any highly emotional and unmanaged conflict can certainly lead to chaos and a dysfunctional organization. For example, in a conflict over the right branding logo , it may help to understand who and how the ultimate decision will be made, including key elements driving the decision, such as targeted customers and competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2016

As a starting point I have to believe the founder has the attributes of an entrepreneur that matter most to me : Tenacity, resiliency, inspiration, perspiration, attention-to-detail, competitiveness, decisiveness, risk tolerance and integrity. Of course I also have to the concept. It’s not enough to love the founding team.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

This is smart because amazing board members can be transformative with important advice and access and can also help attract other great board members (and team members). Of course it happens all the time?—?especially I actually think having a formal board can really help you. Bad board members can make business very unpleasant.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. It’s obvious that we can be too late to these decisions of course. If — and it’s a big if of course — they can do that on the cheap, then why should an LP care at all? When should you start a company?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

As a founder, when you’ve been dealing with these kinds of objections for a couple of years it becomes natural and you easily handle objections on price, product & competition without much thought. And the only way to do that is to help them calculate the ROI (return on investment) of using your product.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Content, of course, is the same!]. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Competition: Gilt Groupe , Ideeli , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , OneKingsLane , department stores like Saks and Neiman Marcus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2018

In the same way, great entrepreneurs and company leaders should no longer rely on faceless and nameless processes to drive business strategy and innovation to stay competitive. Focus on two or three pertinent metrics in any situation. Keeping it simple is the best course.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Today’s higher education is responding by making more courses online and available to people outside of physical boundaries. I believe, though, that they need to be taught more in the context of helping people develop meaningful careers that position them to succeed financially in the changing world in which we live.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In the same way, great entrepreneurs and company leaders should no longer rely on faceless and nameless processes to drive business strategy and innovation to stay competitive. Focus on two or three pertinent metrics in any situation. Keeping it simple is the best course.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Rather they should get a part-time Acting CTO who can help close the gap. Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. Bottom line – if as you recognize this gap, then reach out to get a slice of a CTO who can help bridge the gap. These questions are critical background for any developer at any level.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

You need to move to right location and get connected before you ask for help. Of course, there are always exceptions, but how much added risk do you need for your startup? Exposure instills the fear and urgency you need to deliver the right competitive solution. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2021

Then I found my next set of metrics to take me to the next level. It pushed me harder, it became my own little competition with imaginary people I was riding against and with myself. More results a better mindset and of course better and better results on the scale. On May 31st the competition ended. His advice was this.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

Well, obviously if you knew that in advance it would be big of course that would be true. But to help with the explanation I’d like to put down some markers of typical Internet pre-money valuations done in major US markets (San Fran, NY, LA, etc.) And of course there are always outliers. Here’s the problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

You need to move to right location and get connected before you ask for help. Of course, there are always exceptions, but how much added risk do you need for your startup? Exposure instills the fear and urgency you need to deliver the right competitive solution. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

Of course that’s true. Every $10 million financing only puts more pressure on the founders to figure out how to hit the metrics to get to the next milestone and every company that raises $25 million puts a ton of pressure on their 10 competitors who haven’t. I have written some posts in the past that may be helpful.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

That is, once you invest in a company, you''re a shareholder, and you help that company for the course of its life. We try to help the companies get to a place where we would, as investors, also want to invest in them. It''s not really a set timeframe where they work out of your office and that''s it.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio. I have always worked on early stage products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Data, however, removes guesswork, biases, and anecdotal reasoning that can throw decision efforts off course. Data helps avoid predetermined (and often erroneous) approaches to solving your people problems. Use data analysis and metrics to measure for results. Working on the wrong problem or assumption.

Tool 53

Tool Entrepreneur Statistics Metrics 53

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

You need to move to right location and get connected before you ask for help. Of course, there are always exceptions, but how much added risk do you need for your startup? Exposure instills the fear and urgency you need to deliver the right competitive solution. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

You need to move to right location and get connected before you ask for help. Of course, there are always exceptions, but how much added risk do you need for your startup? Exposure instills the fear and urgency you need to deliver the right competitive solution. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning. If you look at the structure of the travel industry above – of course we know that the hotel industry is fragmented while the airline industry is reasonable consolidated. If you’re not successful then who cares.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you have a market lead then raising capital and making investments now will help you as others enter the market. So while the simplest way that people often evaluate stocks is by P/E ratios (price-to-earnings), one also needs to look at other metrics such as the PEG (price-to-earnings-growth). [of ” The Details.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

He has set up an office, a process & people around him that are helpful to entrepreneurs in need of hands-on skills in a mass service way. Oh, and of course I shoot all of my videos at the ThisWeekIn studios which are located in the Mahalo offices. Helped get the first security to ever be sold over the internet with a credit card.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

To cap off our 6th year at SXSW and follow up on last year’s amazingly successful Trend Lounge , we knew this year had to be bigger, better, more engaging, and of course, even more fun. Noor Siddiqui – Remedy On Glass , helping doctors collaborate using Google Glass. Setting the Stage : The Indiegogo/TechZulu Tech Cafe.

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