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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

In the case of MakeSpace we had huge initial successes in New York City as Rahul led the scaling of our drivers, our trucks and our warehouses and we figured out the right price points to beat the local competition. presented pricing challenges when compared to a whole new set of offline competitors we didn’t know well.

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8 Disciplines for Transforming Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

A successful business requires focus – define the customer need with a specific solution for a specific price and cost. 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.

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8 Principles For Building A Competitive Core Business

Startup Professionals Musings

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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Report: The Bay Area Isn’t Bleeding Tech Workers After All

Tech.Co

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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6 Keys to Marketing Customer Experience vs Products

Startup Professionals Musings

This will create a connection with them, which demonstrates more value than price or quality. One metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). Marty Zwilling Published by Xerox Small Business Solutions on 07/31/2017. You create a loyal customer that wants to buy from you, and will recommend you to others.

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8 Key Ingredients to a Profitable Consulting Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Many are reluctant to really “market” themselves, and have trouble differentiating their offerings to clients, except by price. If your business card and website come across as just another advisor, consultant, or accountant, then don’t be surprised if price is the only focus. Set pricing to assure both revenue and profit.

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7 Ways To Survive The Retail Customer Shift To Online

Startup Professionals Musings

What neither group seems to fully comprehend is that retail needs to fundamentally change to succeed, far beyond the addition of an online component, to meet the experience expectations of today’s generation, an oversupplied global marketplace, and technology for instant pricing and distribution.