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

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2019

These things are clearly good for morale, but its not so clear that they translate into a competitive advantage. These authors present 20+ years of research, including case studies and metrics, showing how culture really makes or breaks your business.

Competition 76

Competition Coach Case Study Statistics 76

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2018

I will suggest to you as a business owner and entrepreneur that focus on certain key behaviors will drive innovation without waiting for the next competitive crisis: Be outspoken in communicating proactive required change. They have the courage to make bold decisions, often contrary to conventional market research and linear thinking.

Metrics 58

Metrics IBM IBM Competition 58

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2017

Don’t assume anything until you have done market research and listened to real customers. Manage the business with metrics and goals. Business objectives need to be quantified and measured to assess progress and positioning against competition. Then assume the customers will change over time, so never stop listening.

Ideas 72

Ideas Startup Metrics Entrepreneur 72

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2019

He outlines six dimensions of a winning business strategy, with some practical, research-based steps that I like, to focus on in achieving extraordinary results: Above all, deliver an exceptional total customer experience. Highlight your competitive value, not your technology. Seek out and capitalize on emerging opportunities.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Customer Custom Competition 87

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Data from accredited market research groups like Forrester or Gartner is required for credibility. Competition and sustainable advantage. Asserting you have no competition is not credible.

Competition 113

Competition Metrics Startup Invest 113

SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Death By Competitive Analysis - Steve Blank , March 1, 2010 Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product. In response he sent me a competitive analysis. It looked like every competitive analysis I had done for 20 years, (ok maybe better.)

Startup 150

Startup Software Review Competition SoCal 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Data from accredited market research groups like Forrester or Gartner is required for credibility. Competition and sustainable advantage. Asserting you have no competition is not credible.

Competition 116

Competition Metrics Startup Sales 116

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. Leaders have found that keeping everyone on top of changes in technology, competition, and customer demands is critical to success. Make your service deliver process “happy.”

Customer 92

Customer Custom Startup Services 92

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? What technology research is required? What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? What are the biggest areas of technical risk? How can we address this risk?

Fractional CTO 225

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach 225

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth.

.Net 89

.Net Metrics Competition Template 89

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

After reviewing her day-by-day recommendations to improve productivity in a single week, I have extrapolated her guidance to ten productivity tips specifically for entrepreneurs to regain that competitive edge: Focus on managing yourself rather than managing others. Define clear goals and metrics for your productivity.

Tips 100

Tips Activity Startup Product 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to research online before they buy, and over 50% check user reviews before making a decision. Include planned measurements and metrics. Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales.

Startup 105

Startup Search Engine Optimization Summary Customer 105

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2017

Reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to research online before they buy, and over 50% check user reviews before making a decision. Include planned measurements and metrics. Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales.

Search Engine Optimization 58

Search Engine Optimization Startup SEO Customer 58

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Measure yourself against a researched plan, or your “out of cash” brick wall will be looming before you know it. But having no process does not make you more competitive. Product development process.

Startup 107

Startup Outsource Development Training Outsource 107

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

Then you can do a little bit of research and find out that very few companies ever achieve this valuation in a trade sale so you’re clearly gunning for an IPO. while acknowledging that San Fran deals are often higher valuations due to increased competition amongst investors. Use competition to make sure you get a fair price.

Startup 336

Startup Pricing Technical Review Marketing 336

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to research online before they buy, and over 50% check user reviews before making a decision. Include planned measurements and metrics. Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales.

Tips 93

Tips Search Engine Optimization Summary Startup 93

InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

One way to accelerate your research is to speak with other startup CEOs who recently closed fundraising rounds. Based on your research from Step 1, you should be able to communicate meaningful and insightful comments regarding the partners’ tweets, blog content, etc. Even the most jaded VC cannot resist authentic flattery.

Venture Capital 236

Venture Capital Capital Research Customer 236

Frank Addante

APRIL 7, 2016

Working for a great cause or “the why” inspires passion, and as research has repeatedly shown, passion drives higher performance. Moneyball points to a greater point: as a leader, it’s not just about measuring standard, vanilla metrics and goals, it’s about determining and measuring the right metrics and goals.

Company 40

Company Companies Class Metrics 40

Frank Addante

APRIL 7, 2016

Working for a great cause or “the why” inspires passion, and as research has repeatedly shown, passion drives higher performance. Moneyball points to a greater point: as a leader, it’s not just about measuring standard, vanilla metrics and goals, it’s about determining and measuring the right metrics and goals.

Company 40

Company Companies Class Metrics 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Measure yourself against a researched plan, or your “out of cash” brick wall will be looming before you know it. But having no process does not make you more competitive. Product development process.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Data from accredited market research groups like Forrester or Gartner is required for credibility. Competition and sustainable advantage. Asserting you have no competition is not credible.

Invest 74

Invest Tips Competition Metrics 74

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2011

Recent reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to research online before they buy, and over 50% check user reviews before making a decision. Include planned measurements and metrics. But the reality is that sellers are no longer in charge of the customer buying process. Marty Zwilling.

Customer 96

Customer Custom Search Engine Optimization Summary 96

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Measure yourself against a researched plan, or your “out of cash” brick wall will be looming before you know it. But having no process does not make you more competitive. Product development process.

Startup 102

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 102

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Implement metrics and analytics. You need to allocate a few minutes a day, or every week, to researching via blogs and websites like Tech News World the latest recommendations and reviews. But above all, don’t forget to observe your competition and their social media activity. You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

Social Media 95

Social Media Media Startup Blogging 95

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

There are a million ways to either research your industries market size and you’re likely to have to do some basic estimations to figure out much of that is addressable to you. But not doing basic research makes no sense. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

There’s plenty of capital out there, but there’s also a lot of competition for startup funding. Do your research to find the right fit and avoid wasting time on non- starters like not matching the fund’s return profile, product areas, or preferred industries. According to Shayne, only 1 out of 1000 business plans might get VC funding.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Equity Funding 40

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Measure yourself against a researched plan, or your “out of cash” brick wall will be looming before you know it. But having no process does not make you more competitive. Product development process.

Startup 95

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 95

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

We also provide the consumer a slew of tools, that will help them upload their resume and manage their online identity, plus we also have a resume builder function, detailed metrics on exactly who is viewing their resume, and the ability to create and manage multiple versions of their resume. Is this at all competitive with LinkedIn?

Startup 140

Startup Yahoo Sites Oversee.net 140

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

But the end result was incredibly valuable, so looked at that end result and we were able to optimize our campaigns and be more efficient than our competition. That portion we call data aggregation where you are looking at one metric across a lot of different data sources. We could use it for research in this area.

Startup 85

Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? What technology research is required? What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? What are the biggest areas of technical risk? How can we address this risk?

CTO Coach 231

CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop 231

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Susan Etlinger – Altimeter , research and consulting company for business disruption. Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool. Short-lived but an epic way to cap off our interview; Shaq showed his competitive side when he hilarious tried swatting away Chris’s game controller out of his hand.

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

She did a bunch of research on it and finally found a small number of safe brands. EcoMom’s metrics improved throughout this process and that’s when I decided to invest. AngelList has introduced new competition and competition in any industry is always good. EcoMom Makes a Breakthrough in its Search for Funding.

Startup 292

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292