Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Of course, these should never be in a customer pitch, but investors expect an overall strategy with specific budgets, milestones and metrics. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/29/2015. Specific elements of your marketing and sales plans. Partnerships, distribution channels and pricing models should be included.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2015

Translating vision into a plan, milestones and metrics is a key responsibility of every entrepreneur. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/12/2015. Relationships only work if they are win-win, so understanding constituent needs is key. Track and measure both long-term and short-term objectives. Do you fit that mold?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Your challenge as an entrepreneur is to generate traction and at the same time choose the right metrics to quantify and sell that traction to your team and to outsiders. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/04/2015. For all practical purposes, if you can’t or don’t measure it, it doesn’t exist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

As an entrepreneur, make sure you understand your direct and indirect costs, staffing requirements, margins and metrics to make sure these elements are in place. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/18/2015. In all cases, you need customer support, formal processes and training in place.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2015

Set your own metrics and rewards to map to results. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/12/2015. A common refrain I hear from team members in over their heads is how many hours they work and how busy they are. Practice an “up or out” growth policy to prevent role stagnation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2015

Jointly define major milestones and key metrics for the startup. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 3/27/2015. Find some common hobbies or sports to get acquainted before giving away half your company. Business partnerships are long-term relationships, so take your time getting acquainted before closing the deal.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

However, starting in 2015, we found that creating this was really hard. After refining their metrics even more, they doubled their performance, and then quadrupled it. We'd get 20 percent, because we had a real estate license to collect that. We ran that for 90 days, and within 45 days, their performance doubled.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2016

From an insider perspective, 37 percent of CFOs now see the required target as a significant innovation every one-to-three years, according to the results of a 2015 IMA innovation survey. Stroh, which details the principles and metrics to follow for fostering innovation in any organization. by Patrick J.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2018

In 2015, a worker in the San Francisco Bay Area earning $100,000 a year would need to put their entire post-tax salary into renting a three-bedroom apartment. Areas such as Oakland and San Francisco saw rent increases as high as 40 percent between 2015 and 2017. But, you’d be wrong, according to a new report out from LinkedIn.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

We ended up all going to three different colleges in the Fall of 2015. Some of th epilots have made it far enough to have some metrics, to the point we're having conversations about integration. I'm just 22, and both of my cofounders are now 23. We were friends from high school. I went to Berkeley.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

After I sold my last company, Shift, in May of 2015, I took some time off to look for the next thing to do. A lot of what we've been looking at are the metrics. We reconnected, talked about this, and I was thrilled at the opportunity to work with Michael on this. What was appealing to you about the mobile app area?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

The number of startups rose in 2015 for the first time in five years, with the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

billion in 2015. Set business goals and milestones, and use metrics to track performance. , AltaVista, InfoSeek and others), but according to Investopedia , Google was the first to really monetize search. As a result, Google has become a verb, and the company is a tech giant with record growth rates and a revenue of $74.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Manage by metrics rather than by crisis and emotion. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/11/2015. The basic objective of the pull-marketing mindset is to proactively demonstrate value and expertise, so that when potential customers are ready to purchase, your company relationship is “top of mind.” Anyone can.

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JANUARY 22, 2016

billion in 2015 alone. Facebook already includes some report automation tools in their campaigns to help track metrics, but you may want to automate some of the publishing effort too with Hootsuite.com or Argyle Social. Social networking continues to be a superior force in marketing, especially Facebook. That was $15.5

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2015

Define metrics to keep on track for the journey. Common financial metrics include burn rate, gross margin, revenue growth and net profit. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/5/2015. Plan ahead to add more structure, people and financial resources to convert initial success into long-term growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

If one entered between 2009-2015 he or she is no doubt in the “hazard” phase where one need to be careful about thinking he know more about the industry than perhaps he do. It’s kind of a truism for life and certainly our industry. I see it in many young pups. They enter the industry knowing that they know nothing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015. 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. jordandhudson Very heavy. But needed to be seen.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

From its start in 2015, the number of registered users has “suddenly” climbed from 45 million in 2017 to a reported 300 million by the end of 2020. Well-tuned metrics are an absolute must. Then how did Discord “suddenly” become so hot that even Microsoft was rumored to want to buy it for staggering amount? Fourth: measurement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2015

That’s why I also put major emphasis on startup traction, milestones achieved and metrics rather than listening again to how great it’s going to be. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/10/2015. All too often the alternative is that one plus zero ends up as zero.

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