Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2016

That should make you wonder - how do you measure traction in a metric? While thinking about the parameters of traction, and how to measure it, I was impressed with a new book, “ Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth ” by Ash Maurya, a serial entrepreneur, and creator of the one-page business modelling tool Lean Canvas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2023

We all have our favorite metric and our passion, but keeping up with real-world changes and trends seems to be always just out of reach. In my experience, all business metrics are still used too often for people management and accountability, rather than business management. Accurate measurement of the wrong things is not helpful.

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Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2023

The technique, “OST” (objective, strategies, and tactics), is a very good way to organize your effort to find guideposts and then develop metrics to measure progress. Penetrate the Fortune 500 with at least five active accounts within two years. Let’s call it “OST.” What is a strategy? Aren’t these just goals?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2021

But very few are talking about how to measure your results and return on investment (ROI), and the right metrics for optimizing your marketing environment. He has one of the first books on this subject, and he breaks the process down into nine key activities, as follows: Get focused and identify goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

What I’m talking about here is a level of discipline and skill necessary to collect and analyze the relevant business data, known as metrics. Here is my selection of ten key metrics that every six-sigma joint like GE tracks without thinking, but too many small businesses only monitor haphazardly, if at all: Sales revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2022

First you need to take consolation from the fact that you are not alone, and more importantly you need to implement an active growth and marketing plan to include the following initiatives: Ramp-up visibility and strategic alliances. Actively listen to customer feedback, and don’t be a one-trick pony.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2013

ForwardMetrics, which is headed by Ozzie DiVinere, said its cloud-based software helps organizations create and track their strategic plans, helping to track the progress of employees towards business results--rather than just activity. forwardmetrics forward metrics strategic planning software venture capital' READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

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. Create an action plan with metrics. You spend the months influencing the influencers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2022

Instead of sizing up new opportunities and actively courting every new customer, you start worrying about cutting costs, repeatable processes , and overtaking known competitors. Internal metrics are great for fixing problems, but industry experts, influencers, and customers are better indicators of future change and trends.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2009

Los Angeles-based Image Metrics (www.image-metrics.com) recently landed a $6.5M, Series B funding round for the firm's facial animation products. I was introduced to Image Metrics a year before I joined, and was helping them along. Editor's note: you can see Image Metrics "Emily" demo on their web site ). I fell in love with it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2023

You need to look at everything through fresh eyes, continually ask questions not usually asked, and actively listen to contrary views. Focus on two or three pertinent metrics in any situation. Unbundle projects into smaller elements, and personalize the top couple of metrics for each team. Keeping it simple is the best course.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. That means you have to start with assessing the current state against the same metrics, before you can assess progress or change. Make sure metric results are available to the team, to keep them motivated.

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Berkonomics

MAY 18, 2017

The technique, “OST” (objective, strategies and tactics), is a very good way to organize your effort to find guideposts and then develop metrics to measure progress. Penetrate the Fortune 500 with at least five active accounts within two years. What is a strategy?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2023

There may be a lot of talk and activity, some initial workshops, boot camps, and visits to Silicon Valley, but there is no sustained support. Episodic innovative activity from a key sponsor. In these companies, you will see more sustained innovative activity, but little organization-wide recognition of innovation as a discipline.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Define realistic metrics to keep track of progress. You need metrics to incentivize the right team behaviors. Does your business have a Chief Innovation Officer or equivalent function to coordinate activities, make sure resources are provided, and ensure execution and achievement of long-term goals?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2020

First you need to take consolation from the fact that you are not alone, and more importantly you need to implement an active growth and marketing plan to include the following initiatives: Ramp-up visibility and strategic alliances. Actively listen to customer feedback, and don’t be a one-trick pony.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Obviously this definition is generic, so my first recommendation is that you take the lead in defining traction metrics for your startup, and then selling your results convincingly to investors. I like to see at least 10,000 active users, or a user base, page-views, or mobile downloads that double every three months.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2019

But very few are talking about how to measure your results and return on investment (ROI), and the right metrics for optimizing your marketing environment. " He has one of the first books on this subject, and he breaks the process down into nine key activities, as follows: Get focused and identify goals.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2013

It''s a combination of leveraging our data to provide activation of users, by sending out the posts, and really providing brands with the metrics of before, during, and after a campaign. In addition, those platforms are not providing the metrics that marketers need. That''s how we take the business to the next level.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 18, 2022

This is due to both supply and demand: On the demand side, some companies are providing solutions for something consumers are not actively looking for, while on the supply side, companies have figured out the most effective manufacturing process, which is complex and expensive, Elder explained.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2021

The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Waste in a startup is any activity that burns resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Focus on activities rather than results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2021

Establish and evaluate metrics at multiple levels. As times change, you may need new metrics, such as total experience, web site hits, and social media complaints. A good way to start this activity is to participate in industry conferences, and build relationships with peers and other leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

I recommend you start with team building activities to strengthen trust and communicate the objectives to everyone on a regular basis. Take the necessary time to identify the most promising activities that will have the greatest impact on where your organization is right now. Use personal relationships to test buy-in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2020

Actively seek and learn from the counsel of smart people. Make sure you actively interact with and show appreciation for people smarter than you, even if they don’t always agree with you. Use metrics in lieu of feelings to measure progress. He never gave up, despite multiple setbacks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The challenge is to avoid the bad risks, while actively seeking and managing the smart risks. Use metrics to measure results of marketing initiatives. The risks you want to take are the ones that you planned for in your resources, set up metrics to measure, and manage on an ongoing basis. Customers like leaders, not followers.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 19, 2021

With this move, Los Angeles wants to hitch its wagon to this momentum and is actively looking for tech busineses that can help with carbon accounting. That means good things for companies like CarbonChain , Persefoni , ClimateView , and SINAI Technologies , which all have offerings meant to help with carbon accounting and management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2021

Demonstrate active listening in a neutral location. Face-to-face you can better demonstrate active listening through body language and playing back what you have heard. The longer a conflict is active, the more likely that positions will harden, and emotions will make resolution more painful than productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

That means full transparency and no excuses for issues and activities that are obviously in your domain. Make sure that metrics and goals are set up front, and not modified as the project progresses. First of all, you need to be a role model for accountability. Provide assessments based wholly on facts.

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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. Highlight purpose in all your marketing and team activities, and make customers your best advocates through word-of-mouth and stories from the field.

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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. Create an action plan with metrics. You spend the months influencing the influencers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2016

I believe the right attributes and habits can be recognized and learned, and here are seven key ones that I find in successful entrepreneurs: Actively recruits others and solicits win-win relationships. Asks hard questions, and actively listens to critical feedback. Sets goals and milestones, with metrics to track progress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Some chaos is normal in every new business, but many wait far too long before they install metrics based on “best practices,” and fail to attack obvious bottlenecks with a vengeance. Yet I still see expense budgets based on traditional channels, with no strict metrics on cost of customer acquisition by channel, or lifetime customer value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Decide early where and when money will come from, set some milestones and metrics, and work to a plan, or be caught short. The free model, with a loose intent to monetize later, made popular during the tech bubble, doesn’t work anymore. No matter how good your cause, it takes real money to sustain a business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Hypermetricemia – metrics for everything. My advice is to focus on a handful of high-level metrics that matter , and are simple and relevant to organizational objectives. It suddenly and consistently seems reasonable to trade off long-term goals for survival in the short term. You may win the near-term battle but lose the war.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

And measuring activities or output can mislead you into thinking you’re doing a great job. So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

First, you as the leader must be a role model for the actions you desire – including positive communication, active coaching, rewards for results, as well as providing required tools and training. Use metrics to assess needs and growth economics. Inspire your teams with love and affirmation.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

These enhanced capabilities transform the search experience from a passive retrieval process into an active, dynamic interaction. FLARE (Forward-Looking Active Retrieval augmented generation): FLARE uses the prediction of upcoming sentences to anticipate future content. Strive for a balanced outcome.

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