Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2023

Most business metrics I see compare current performance to your own previous experience, rather than your performance compared to industry standards and competitors. Amend this culture to highlight and reward new initiatives on a regular basis, with metrics to assess value and progress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Put operational systems and metrics in place early. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/01/2023 Before you spend big money on inventory and scale over a wide area, make sure you have finalized your marketing, manufacturing, and distribution resources. Life is too short to make it all pain and no joy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2023

Don’t fail to develop the proper comprehensive metrics for assessing how you and any partners are doing in terms of value creation. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 1/9/2023 Most great business leaders, including Jeff Bezos , maintain a key internal team to study and implement the next steps.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2023

These must be managed by metrics to allow you to gauge progress, recognize successes, and keep constituents motivated along the way. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 06/06/2023 Build a business plan with specific deliverables and timing. In these changing times, you need to enjoy the journey and the destination.

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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. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/14/2023 There is no business where you can just relax and enjoy the spoils. You make decisions from data, or from the gut.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2023

Make sure you know what is really happening, through metrics and feedback from others. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/18/2023 Measure everything and broadcast highlights. Highlight individual achievements to the whole team, and connect work output to other teams, company purpose, and vision. Make it work now for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Forestall loss of momentum by creating a long-term roadmap of activities and objectives, with metrics, to track implementation and measure results. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 2/3/2023 Be sure to involve highly influential executives, as well as front-line team members, to keep everyone moving.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Measure progress through metrics on sales, revenue, and penetration. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/13/2023 Of course, margin and profitability are important, but must be committed to adding more value to the lives of your clients, and making the world a better place.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2023

Maturing proficiency with innovation metrics. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 3/10/2023 Here we see the first early-stage corporate governance of innovation, with funding and processes for innovation as separate activities from business as usual. This requires dedicated resources of both time and money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

I believe this difficulty stems from the historical use of results-only metrics in measuring performance and rankings, without including learning measures and achievements. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/08/2023 Help them improve their skills and discover new career options while doing higher-quality work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2023

Thus my challenge to you is to start today in documenting specific goals , putting some metrics in place to measure progress, and start celebrating every bit of progress, no matter how small, along the way as follows: Convert dreams into specific written objectives. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 3/21/2023

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