Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2023

Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Effective marketing requires converting ideas to real content, creating programs to educate channels, and managing metrics to see what works and what needs to change. Customer acquisition, retention, and support. Customer acquisition, retention, and support.

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Startup Ideas IBM IBM 155

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. Organizations are assigned value by how well they take advantage of the best technology, and turn information into action.

Technical Review 129

Technical Review Funding Organization Coach 129

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Many entrepreneurs never get past their first-stage focus on their innovative product, to scaling the business globally, organizing a structure to handle thousands of employees, and concentrating their focus “on the business” rather than working “in the business.” Utilize mergers and acquisitions to accelerate growth.

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Startup Course Sales Entrepreneur 151

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Radhika teaches entrepreneurship and innovation, and advises organizations around the world on how to build radical products that create a fundamental change instead of optimizing the status quo. Hypermetricemia – metrics for everything. The solution is never to forget that initial clear purpose that translates into priorities.

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Metrics Product Yahoo Examples 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2020

Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Effective marketing requires converting ideas to real content, creating programs to educate channels, and managing metrics to see what works and what needs to change. Customer acquisition, retention, and support. Customer acquisition, retention, and support.

Ideas 122

Ideas Entrepreneur Startup IBM 122

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Happy customers quickly become your biggest advocates, today reaching far beyond friends and family, and they make traditional marketing efforts pale in comparison for growth, loyalty, and new customer acquisition costs. Use metrics to assess needs and growth economics. Make feedback and change your friend, rather than the enemy.

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Customer Custom Satisfaction Metrics 114

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. Organizations are assigned value by how well they take advantage of the best technology, and turn information into action.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Organization Coach Invest 124

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

No matter how passionately you believe that everyone needs one, and positive feedback from friends and early adopters (false positives), before you invest in scaling the business, make sure you set and meet good metrics in cost of customer acquisition, recurring sales, and margin. Mergers and acquisitions also require new skills.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Case Study Mentor Software Review 131

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. The real question you should be asking is "When I've built this product and show you the following metrics, would you invest?" Investors demand more than that.

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Metrics Venture Capital News Product 264

Berkonomics

MARCH 31, 2016

We can invent lots of metrics to measure progress for a leader, including revenue, profit, employee satisfaction, cost containment, percentage of available market, and more. But these are all individual roads to Rio – which is the stated goal for the organization.

Resource 120

Resource Satisfaction Metrics Course 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Every business team becomes inwardly- focused by default, comparing themselves only emotionally to others they know within the organization. It’s your job as a leader to be the model high performer, quantify the team view with metrics, and expand awareness to the best outside competition and new tools.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Layoffs Social Media Metrics 124

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

With the real data from that surge, you need to take a hard look at business model realities, cost of customer acquisition, inventory costs, and other key metrics. Document processes and metrics for economies of scale. Key metrics for scaling, such as customer loyalty, are very important after initial rollout.

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Metrics Startup Training Customer 86

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

But we do it anyway, because we believe that the short-term metrics probably aren''t indicative of the long term.”. If improperly administered, meetings become counter-productive, especially as an organization grows beyond its initial startup phase. Let Your Competitors Chase The Quick Buck.

Tips 223

Tips Framework Metrics Cloud Computing 223

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

While it was a good year for our merger and acquisition practice in the SaaS and fintech space, our most exciting news is in our merchant banking sector where we invest in and advise growth companies often for several years. Socaltech has partnered with Sutton Capital Partners with their Recurring Revenue Conference for several yars.

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Capital SoCal Southern California SaaS 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? The best CEOs realize that they need to build organizations and hierarchy and delegate decision making while still holding their teams accountable. We built a strong brand in the city and acquired a ton of organic traffic.

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Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2015

Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Effective marketing requires converting ideas to real content, creating programs to educate channels, and managing metrics to see what works and what needs to change. Customer acquisition, retention, and support. Customer acquisition, retention, and support.

Ideas 115

Ideas Startup IBM IBM 115

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

And then bit by bit, we grew the organization. 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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Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

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. Organizations are assigned value by how well they take advantage of the best technology, and turn information into action.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Organization Coach Invest 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Too many entrepreneurs start fast, but lose momentum and the ability to change as the organization grows. Initiate new strategic partnerships and investigate acquisitions versus in-house changes. Define and use market metrics to tune your plan. Static content quickly becomes dead content.

Social Media 67

Social Media Metrics Startup Technical Review 67

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2016

Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Effective marketing requires converting ideas to real content, creating programs to educate channels, and managing metrics to see what works and what needs to change. Customer acquisition, retention, and support. Customer acquisition, retention, and support.

Ideas 53

Ideas Startup IBM IBM 53

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

In this case, if enough people enter your organization with a self-serving mindset, such people will eventually dictate that selfish behavior is the norm and it will become part of the de facto culture. But we do it anyway, because we believe that the short-term metrics probably aren’t indicative of the long term.”.

Tips 279

Tips Startup Framework Customer 279

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2012

By recognizing the fundamental and inevitable differences among your customers, you can give your organization a strategic advantage over your product-centric competitors – who may know little to nothing about the customers who account for their success and survival. Focus on individual customer value. Remember, this is not a one-time effort.

Customer 90

Customer Custom Startup Pricing 90

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

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? Another risk with taking capital is that we would grow the organization quickly and sales might lag behind expenses.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

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.

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

By recognizing the fundamental and inevitable differences among your customers, you can give your organization a strategic advantage over your product-centric competitors – who may know little to nothing about the customers who account for their success and survival. Focus on individual customer value. Remember, this is not a one-time effort.

Customer 90

Customer Custom Services Pricing 90

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.

Startup 150

Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

I personally believe that there are lots and lots of good developers working inside of organizations who would love to work on the interesting projects that we work on all the time, yet they arent out actively looking, so its almost impossible to find them. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles CTO Hire CTO Coach Develop 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Limit your scaling efforts to organic growth. You need to nurture non-organic growth partnerships and acquisitions to maximize your valuation. It’s a big change. When you build a great solution or product, all you can think about is shipping more volume of your product to a larger audience.

Social Network 59

Social Network Startup Demand Entrepreneur 59

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 24, 2010

Motown’s system was not just efficient, but it also allowed the company to avoid the cronyism that can infect organizations as they mature. You can inject objectivity into an inherently subjective process by exposing ideas to a cross-section of your organization. Evaluate each of the following metrics on a scale of 1 – 10.

Ideas 187

Ideas Resource Technical Review Startup 187

Jason Nazar

JUNE 1, 2016

You’re looking to build a relationship; you want investors engaged in an organic, authentic conversation. They should include stats like your growth rate (more important than your aggregate users), your cost per acquisition, user engagement and any early signs of conversion and monetization. Forget Your Slides. Put your deck away.

Slides 49

Slides Startup Entrepreneur Metrics 49

CEO Flow

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

The group was gathered by Aaron Ross, who has been an Internet entrepreneur, a Salesforce.com executive and a venture capitalist, among other things, and who recently began organizing small, monthly meetings of chief executives looking to create predictable revenue during one of the worst recessions in our country’s history.

Sales 40

Sales Metrics Organization Customer 40

CEO Flow

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

The group was gathered by Aaron Ross, who has been an Internet entrepreneur, a Salesforce.com executive and a venture capitalist, among other things, and who recently began organizing small, monthly meetings of chief executives looking to create predictable revenue during one of the worst recessions in our country’s history.

Sales 40

Sales Metrics Organization Customer 40

CEO Flow

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

The group was gathered by Aaron Ross, who has been an Internet entrepreneur, a Salesforce.com executive and a venture capitalist, among other things, and who recently began organizing small, monthly meetings of chief executives looking to create predictable revenue during one of the worst recessions in our country’s history.

Sales 40

Sales Metrics Organization Customer 40

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. through organic interactions from the community. through organic interactions from the community. Rapt.FM – Rap battles over live chat.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

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.

Startup 190

Startup Los Angeles Content Hollywood 190

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

We make it trivial to quickly aggregate and monitor your key metrics in real-time! Thousands of organizations have turned to TriNet for human resources, benefits, payroll, workers’ compensation, and strategic human capital services. This way we keep the questions fresh and up to date with current events. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91