Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Stroh, which details the principles and metrics to follow for fostering innovation in any organization. As the pace of change in the marketplace increases, innovation is required at a faster pace in every organization, old and new, to stay competitive. by Patrick J. Catching up later is not a viable strategy for survival.

Metrics 102

Metrics Startup Organization Demand 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2023

I’m not suggesting that you model your startup after the complex corporate organizations you hated in your last job, but there are at least eight key functions and activities that every investor expects to find in a startup proposal with any real potential to change the world. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

Outsource Development 115

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 115

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

” Case studies get done with ebullient CEO’s espousing the benefits of said software even though their organization was barely using the product. Every consultant was pitching a process for reinventing your organization through BI. Create company measures for success that go beyond financial metrics.

Marketing 354

Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It does require leadership at all levels of the organization to find shared values, set clear expectations, attract and develop talent, accelerate execution of a winning strategy, and generate a feeling of alignment, togetherness, and engagement every day. Failure to cascade change success across all teams.

Organization 116

Organization Activity Metrics Training 116

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In my experience, competition is the biggest challenge here. Even the best solutions require marketing and motivating advocates these days, with the rise of instant global competition, and flood of alternatives available via the Internet. Timing is important, and communication with your customer set is critical.

Activity 108

Activity Satisfaction Metrics Startup 108

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The first ones address trends that I see in the market today, while the rest are meant to force you to be proactive in managing your own team and organization to anticipate the level of change I’m sure you will face ahead. Highlight the competitive edge you bring to the market. Put operational systems and metrics in place early.

Marketing 116

Marketing Resource Training Startup 116

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. It starts at the top with the founder and CEO, but has to extend quickly to the bottom of the organization. Expedite change reaction.

Startup 116

Startup Training Statistics Summary 116

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Many risks can be managed or calculated to improve growth or provide a competitive edge, while others, like skipping quality checks to save money, are recipes for failure. Use metrics to measure results of marketing initiatives. There is an old saying that good lawyers run away from risk, while good businessmen run towards risk.

Resource 121

Resource Metrics Entrepreneur Customer 121

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Further, based on results from the Sierra-Cedar HR Systems Survey , businesses that use data and tools in their people management, rather than traditional manual processes, see a 79% higher return than other organizations, suggesting the time is ripe for relying on data and analytics. Use data analysis and metrics to measure for results.

Tool 121

Tool Statistics Entrepreneur Metrics 121

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

How our VC Firms Like Ours Organizing to Meet the Challenges? But we also organize ourselves around practice areas and have done for the past 7 years and these include: SaaS, Cyber Security, FinTech, Computer Vision, Sustainability, Healthcare, Marketplace businesses, Video Games? That never would have happened 10 years ago.

Venture Capital 471

Venture Capital Writing Invest Pricing 471

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Your story should include childhood initiatives, industry organization leadership roles, and online influencer organizations that you support. These show a focus on the business elements required for success, and metrics for ensuring accountability, management control, and feedback along the way.

Ideas 140

Ideas Entrepreneur Equity Resource 140

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2021

In my experience, a level of disagreement among key team members is a sign of a healthy organization, allowing it to survive and prosper in this age of multiple disruptive trends. Of course, any highly emotional and unmanaged conflict can certainly lead to chaos and a dysfunctional organization.

Activity 145

Activity Organization Examples Satisfaction 145

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

I’m not suggesting that you model your startup after the complex corporate organizations you hated in your last job, but there are at least eight key functions and activities that every investor expects to find in a startup proposal with any real potential to change the world. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Startup Competition 131

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2020

Stroh, which details the principles and metrics to follow for fostering innovation in any organization. As the pace of change in the marketplace increases, innovation is required at a faster pace in every organization, old and new, to stay competitive. by Patrick J. Catching up later is not a viable strategy for survival.

Startup 138

Startup Organization Demand Customer 138

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2018

Writers can submit their scripts into these programs, and the dashboards make it convenient to track, and it also allows them to track placement and their scores in these competitions. It just sort of took off from there, so I began pitching this around town to all these labs and competitions, who have come on board.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Hollywood Platform Competition 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

You may be comfortable driving your future based on vision and emotion, or have long been a stickler for details and metrics. Disruptive technologies require the vision and willingness to take a big leap, whereas incremental changes to existing competition must be managed with data and finesse.

Startup 94

Startup Ideas Metrics Entrepreneur 94

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2021

The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate. That means keeping all the players and all the organizations centered on what matters amid the crosscurrents of change.

Social Media 143

Social Media Startup Framework Course 143

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2021

Well-articulated goals and metrics. Maintain an intimate knowledge of the competition. No organization, large or small, can manage more than five goals and priorities without becoming unfocused and ineffective. Build it at the start and don’t ever lose it. Study their moves and engage your team for an analysis of updates.

Startup 154

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Metrics 154

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Measure progress through metrics on sales, revenue, and penetration. Look for more ways to demonstrate a competitive advantage, and partner with complementary organizations if you need strength in manufacturing, distribution, or customer support. Seek customer feedback on ways to improve value and satisfaction.

Customer 91

Customer Custom Marketing Startup 91

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. And then bit by bit, we grew the organization. We work with large brands that have a strong organic following on social media; and their question is: “Hey, Greg, why should I spend more money if I would have acquired those users anyway?”

Commerce 211

Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Many risks can be managed or calculated to improve growth or provide a competitive edge, while others, like skipping quality checks to save money, are recipes for failure. Use metrics to measure results of marketing initiatives. There is an old saying that good lawyers run away from risk, while good businessmen run towards risk.

Entrepreneur 129

Entrepreneur Resource Metrics Customer 129

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. In today’s competitive world, with its accelerating rate of change, no competitive advantage lasts long. The only sustainable competitive advantage is creativity. Creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Company 90

Company Companies Competition Netflix 90

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I still see organizations that penalize teams for change requests, and try to live by the old adage of “it’s always been done this way.” Use metrics to assess needs and growth economics. A popular set of metrics for customer views is the New Promoter System ( NPS ), available from Bain & Company.

Customer 114

Customer Custom Satisfaction Metrics 114

Berkonomics

MARCH 31, 2016

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. But these are all individual roads to Rio – which is the stated goal for the organization. That requires real thought and strategies.

Resource 120

Resource Satisfaction Metrics Course 120

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Sounds simple but in practice I promise you most organization fall into the latter trap. So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc.

Activity 164

Activity Conference Press Case Study 164

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2022

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? Current examples include Conscious Capitalism® , popularized by John Mackey, The B Team , founded by Sir Richard Branson, the 1% for the Planet organization, and the Benefit Corporation (B Corp) now available in 35 States.

Startup 110

Startup Entrepreneur Capital Examples 110

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Every business team becomes inwardly- focused by default, comparing themselves only emotionally to others they know within the organization. It’s your job as a leader to be the model high performer, quantify the team view with metrics, and expand awareness to the best outside competition and new tools.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Layoffs Social Media Metrics 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2022

A strong vision and deep insight may get your business off the ground, but long-term success requires constant data analysis, metrics, and attention to your customer feedback. Ability to organize and motivate individuals into teams. The competition will improve, the market will change, and your customers will demand more.

Mentor 133

Mentor Startup Customer Custom 133

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Dashboard offers a bird's-eye view of projects, letting you see key metrics such as due dates, assigned cards, and cards-per-list so bottlenecks can be prevented before they begin. It's organized by workspace which allows you to jump to different boards within those workspaces easily.

Software Review 152

Software Review Guide Technical Review Class 152

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2019

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. It starts at the top with the founder and CEO, but has to extend quickly to the bottom of the organization. Expedite change reaction.

Startup 94

Startup Training Statistics Summary 94

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Mistrustful leaders and organizations are preoccupied with keeping people from doing their worst. Define metrics to measure what you want to achieve. Making sure the best idea wins, not the most powerful person, promotes a sense of teamwork and leadership trust from deep within an organization. Empower others to do their best.

Mentor 98

Mentor News Summary Coach 98

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Cyber & nuclear threats, disruptive innovation, and increasing competition for market share will continue to reshape how members view their memberships. This means organizations will require new and different external research to understand what tools they must provide in order to help their members make progress.

Research 140

Research Organization Help Product 140

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The best CEOs realize that they need to build organizations and hierarchy and delegate decision making while still holding their teams accountable. Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2019

In addition to quantifying the positives of the customer lifetime value metric, they address the mistakes that I see regularly in my business advisory service relative to assessing the value of customers and value, including the following: Failing to account for current customer status and stage.

Customer 85

Customer Custom Product Metrics 85

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. In today’s competitive world, with its accelerating rate of change, no competitive advantage lasts long. The only sustainable competitive advantage is creativity. Creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Competition 65

Competition Netflix Ideas Metrics 65

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. The whole point of delegating investment decisions to a GP is to empower them to organize their firm to win deals and get stuff done. Some more on metrics design and quantification. When should you start a company?

Venture Capital 202

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2013

The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. In today’s competitive world, with its accelerating rate of change, no competitive advantage lasts long. The only sustainable competitive advantage is creativity. Creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Product 92

Product Competition Netflix Ideas 92