Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. Modern information management tools. Having information is more than access to data; it requires knowing how to synthesize, interpret, and act it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2023

New startup founders keep all the operating metrics they need in their head. The best sale or acquisition is a gradual one, where the acquirer gets to know you through formal and informal relationships. At minimum, you need to get an exit advisor to keep you on course. Set your startup health gauges and use them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2021

New startup founders keep all the operating metrics they need in their head. The best sale or acquisition is a gradual one, where the acquirer gets to know you through formal and informal relationships. At minimum, you need to get an exit advisor to keep you on course. Set your startup health gauges and use them.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, we investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. Free sites without monetization will disappear over time, and we will lose services we take for granted today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Unfortunately, your personal assessment that you have traction probably won’t be convincing to potential investors and partners, so it’s important that you create and track your progress against some metrics. Define metrics on customer feedback and user counts. Count connections with experts, media, and influencers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

If we build it, they will come” doesn’t work in today’s worldwide information overload. Mergers and acquisitions also require new skills. If you are the hot-shot technical innovator that invented your solution, make sure you have an equally adept business and marketing expert to complement your skills. “If

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. Modern information management tools. Having information is more than access to data; it requires knowing how to synthesize, interpret, and act it.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

If you do build the MVP and show it to them, they will ask you about your metrics. They really want metrics, not a product. However, the good news is that for most investors, you can certainly change the question and get a lot more information without ever building the MVP.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

TestFlight's product provides iOS developers with information on an app's audience, revenue, engagement, and other metrics. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Burstly is backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and SoftBank, and announced a $5.5M funding round in November. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

You have to make sure your cost of acquisition, retention rates, and conversion metrics are all in place. That person would take your information, and either accept it and get back to you, and then place a bunch of phone calls to suppliers to see if could or couldn't be done. You cannot grow your problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. Modern information management tools. Having information is more than access to data; it requires knowing how to synthesize, interpret, and act it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Viral videos, personal anecdotes, and informal surveys would likely be counterproductive. Use business metrics and tools to tune your efforts. Always gauge progress by business indicators, like customer acquisition cost and customer satisfaction. Social media is not all about being social, or treating everyone casually.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little though given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We’ve worked with lots of startups at different points in the funnel, starting from the ground up and working with them through various rounds of funding, all the way through acquisitions, including two by unicorns. But these days, ground up is tougher.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

New startup founders keep all the operating metrics they need in their head. The best sale or acquisition is a gradual one, where the acquirer gets to know you through formal and informal relationships. At minimum, you need to get an exit advisor to keep you on course. Set your startup health gauges and use them.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Product managers have challenges with getting the right information at the right level to the right people. Greathouse: I know it’s difficult to estimate, but how much further along do you think you would be from a customer acquisition and revenue generating standpoint if you had taken in a few million in investment dollars?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

By linking the activities to P&L--not click rates, or cost per sale, or cost per lead, or brand awareness, which are all soft metrics--we are able to give our customers ammunition to take to their board or to finance, and prove the true effectiveness of their marketing and the true effectiveness of the agencies involved. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.” Startup Metrics discusses what a Startup needs to consider before “going live.” Right now we have a lot of Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw work that crosses over between the two facets of our firm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2012

By moving forward with a highly focused customer relationship management initiative, you can gather and leverage more information about your customers. Then you can decide on a marketing program, loyalty program, or a level of attention that is appropriate to each group, for acquisition, retention, and profitability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

By moving forward with a highly focused customer relationship management initiative, you can gather and leverage more information about your customers. Then you can decide on a marketing program, loyalty program, or a level of attention that is appropriate to each group, for acquisition, retention, and profitability.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Although the article is informative, it is the accompanying sidebar that has remained with me over the succeeding years. But we do it anyway, because we believe that the short-term metrics probably aren’t indicative of the long term.”. Don’t Chase The Quick Buck. it was instantly broadcast to its competitors.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Most board meetings are administrative updates that accomplish very little other than inform board members about the performance of the company since the last board meeting. People debate the information you put in front of them. Never put information in front of people if you don’t want it discussed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

It probably had more to do with the fact that they had doubled their sales annually for several years, and still managed to squeeze out a profit of $11M in their year of acquisition. The best advantage includes intellectual property to provide a barrier to entry or incent acquisition.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

LinkedIn has been great to keep track of people I know and their current contact information. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. event I did last fall.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

In seed stage funding, we’re often told that the investments are ultimately about the people/teams, and not necessarily the metrics. For more information on 500 Startups, be sure to visit their website. Doorman is the mobile friendly middleman to accept, then redeliver your packages in 1-2 hour windows up to midnight.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 24, 2010

Record companies evaluated songs based upon a variety of informal means, such as the Old Gray Whistle Test. Evaluate each of the following metrics on a scale of 1 – 10. In the early 1960s, conventional wisdom in the music industry did not lend itself to a systematic manner of evaluating creative content. from the Wharton School.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Our metrics show that when people watch chips, they increase their tendency to want to watch that feature length film. We represented Google in the acquisition of YouTube. Secondly, it's a changing environment for studios, as they are looking for ways to maximize their assets. So, online video was right in my wheel house.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I promised to do this post as a follow-up to the session to provide additional links and information. Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. The real reason to build an MVP is to do early tests of key Startup Metrics for the business.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

If you don't have room information, and have to look in four or five rooms to find an asset, you might as well be doing it the old way rather than signing into a computer. Without room information, adoption falls off. But, we're not focused on an exit--we're focused on profitability, which is a key metric for management.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics. Initally, the product development process should likely be focused on big-picture qualitative information, like whether or not your business is addressing the right audience as well as the preferences for that audience.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. They compete on features, price and execution. It’s not a tablet – it’s an order entry device!

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

And because you are online, you will have access to all sorts of information about the people, what their interests are - it will be easily captured. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. The challenge will be getting people used to this - hence the 25 years.

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