Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2017

Manage the business with metrics and goals. Metrics drive a results-oriented culture that leads to continuous quality improvements, required pivots, and recognition of success. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/17/2017. Learn and incent your team to enjoy the journey as well as the destination.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2018

Areas such as Oakland and San Francisco saw rent increases as high as 40 percent between 2015 and 2017. Plenty of workers have had enough: In the final quarter of 2017, according to real estate company Redfin , more residents left San Francisco than any other major U.S. cities in the final quarter of 2017, with 10.4

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 04/12/2017. Less is more. How many do you already practice today?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2017

What metrics should you use to measure success? Define both hard data and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the new solution, as well as on the productivity of you team. That means you must know the current state of competitors against the same metrics, before you can assess progress or success.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

At year end 2017, Association Executives would find it useful to see the world as their members do and understand what help they need to make progress in their Industry or Profession. Developing Metrics to measure new product & service impact on Industry Business & Growth Challenges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

One metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). Marty Zwilling Published by Xerox Small Business Solutions on 07/31/2017. Once you know how to improve your customers’ experience, you need to also know how to benchmark it. Remember the old adage, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2017

Technology is not the solution per se , but it provides the key enablement, drivers, and support for the required flexibility, integration, communication, metrics, and affordability that are required in the workplace today. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 05/05/2017. No one is happy or satisfied.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2018

New and better technology is becoming available every day to present dashboards and metrics to show how well processes and empowerment are working, assess workload backlogs, and capture customer feedback and satisfaction. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/26/2017. Things that are not measured cannot be managed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different. Marty Zwilling Published by Xerox Small Business Solutions on 03/06/2017. An integrated marketing strategy starts with an overall brand management strategy, delivered through online and offline communications, promotions, and customer engagement vehicles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Here are ten key questions you should ask in selecting any recruiter or firm: What are your search successful completion metrics? Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/13/2017. Competent recruiters should be willing to share the percentage of searches that they actually complete.

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StartUp Beat

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In 2017, these sorts of collaborations between big brands and influencers are only to increase.”. Influencers don’t always post what they agreed to, and many campaigns fall short of expectations due to a lack of actionable, metric-driven insights.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2017

Every company needs to track their progress and measure results – establish metrics to understand how much and how effectively their workplaces are being transformed and compete. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/04/2017. It’s not enough to merely talk about these changes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2017

Start by setting some specific growth targets, and implement metrics to chart your progress. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/20/2017. Measure against specific objectives, rather than crises solved. Surviving daily challenges is necessary but not sufficient to build a sustainable business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2017

Some things need to be done whether we like them or not; for example, daily cash-flow analysis and business metrics. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/02/2017. Other influences to avoid include doom and gloom prognosticators, and work weeks that stretch through every weekend. Learn to like the things that need done.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Pick metrics to measure change implementation and results. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/24/2017. It’s a bad strategy to assume that all existing processes and systems must be updated, rather than replaced to accommodate a market change. Always evaluate new tools and new systems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Measure your agility by putting metrics on change. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/10/2017. People must be measured in performance reviews against industry best practices, rather than previous results in your business. They may be improving every period, but losing the race.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2017

Set goals based on values, that are meant to exceed, and use metrics, rather than gut feeling to assess your own progress, as well as that of your team. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 06/09/2017. Measure, don’t guess, with tools that build, not limit. Hope is the weakest strategy for improvement in business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Use data analysis and metrics to measure for results. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 12/09/2017. Efficiency in the workplace is the time it takes to do something, but it can ignore work quality and customer impact. Subjectively measuring employee engagement. Manually assessing engagement clearly isn’t working.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2017

Deadlines and results are just two of the many metrics you must use in business to measure yourself and others on motivation and productivity. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 07/12/2017. There is no substitute or excuse for not getting things done in business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

To check your return on marketing investment, you need to define metrics and a formal process to evaluate progress and cost tradeoffs. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/09/2017. Just like product marketing, professional services requires a clear profile and demographics of your ideal client.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

exabytes per month at the end of 2017, of which more than half was video. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Accelerate: speed is life in this new world.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Ajay Royan told Bloomberg in 2017 that Mithril does not “charge excessive fees.” Startups either get three dozen term sheets or none at all, since every firm is walking around with the same frameworks and metrics in their head. Some more on metrics design and quantification. To every member of Extra Crunch: thank you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

exabytes per month at the end of 2017, of which more than half was video. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Accelerate: speed is life in this new world.

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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. Discord is a great example of a company going viral mostly from word of mouth. Fourth: measurement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2017

Include planned measurements and metrics. Marty Zwilling Published by Xerox Small Business Solutions on 04/06/2017. This is your rollout of the new product offerings, business model updates, and process changes to map to the new understanding of the customer buying process. Start where the customer wants you to be and work backwards.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2017

Inventors don’t always appreciate documented processes, quality controls, and metrics. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 03/27/2017. No matter how innovative your invention, it won’t sustain a business unless it can be built and sold in volume by ordinary people in multiple environments.

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