Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

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. Revenue and competitive position followed. In this age of technology, the advent of a better alternative is inevitable.

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Social Media Metrics Custom Customer 87

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2013

Squabbler’s software as a service (SAAS) platform gives publishers a plug and play technology to drive audience engagement through video and has been garnering a lot of interest from big name publishers like Bravo, the CBC, and Major League Baseball. Watch video metrics, track performance.

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Metrics Platform Content Web 79

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

According to many observers , we can thank or blame technology for these higher expectations, providing information at the speed of light, leading everyone to expect more. Some entrepreneurs are so focused on their technology, they assume their customers think the same way. Every job on your team drives your customer experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Competition and sustainable advantage.

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Competition Metrics Startup Invest 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. Leaders have found that keeping everyone on top of changes in technology, competition, and customer demands is critical to success. Involve, empower, and inspire.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Competition and sustainable advantage.

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Competition Metrics Startup Sales 116

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. it’s about measuring online influence and I’m big on metrics as a key element of business planning; 2.) Tesla is not.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

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. We have been able to build deep customer insights on product, pricing, service, geography, competition, etc.

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Startup Technical Review Custom Customer 286

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2016

Costs for advertising on Facebook are increasing, due to high demand, and their profits continue to soar. The way to get ahead of the competition is to look at what they’re doing right and do it better. If your competitor is spending more on social network advertising, so should you. That was $15.5 billion in 2015 alone.

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Marketing Social Media Social Network Technical Review 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. This world of local meets retail meets digital advertising portends to technology disruption and with it VC opportunities. They compete on features, price and execution.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

It's my belief that many marketers still measure in layers -- they might look at how direct mail, or search, or display, or TV, or brand advertising, or their sales force performs, in a certain swim lane. Advertisers are known for their creative focus, not focus on analytics. READ MORE>>.

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Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Working with professional athletes combined with my natural leadership ability and experience in business development makes me uniquely suited to lead a technology company in the health and fitness industry. Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer. Advertising revenue is generated from each site visitor, paid or otherwise.

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Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Competition and sustainable advantage.

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Invest Tips Competition Metrics 74

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

We also provide the consumer a slew of tools, that will help them upload their resume and manage their online identity, plus we also have a resume builder function, detailed metrics on exactly who is viewing their resume, and the ability to create and manage multiple versions of their resume. Is this at all competitive with LinkedIn?

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Startup Yahoo Sites Oversee.net 140

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. So while the simplest way that people often evaluate stocks is by P/E ratios (price-to-earnings), one also needs to look at other metrics such as the PEG (price-to-earnings-growth). [of ” Harsh, but reality.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Game changing technology here!). Morgan Intrator – Yoursigma, combining technology with classroom learning. James Citron – Outspoken , pioneering the combination of mobile messaging and advertisements. Charles Michael Yim – Breathometer , combining smartphone technology with safe alcohol monitoring.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

MW: At my previous company, I was running big online advertising campaigns and delivering – in this case – leads to clients. But the end result was incredibly valuable, so looked at that end result and we were able to optimize our campaigns and be more efficient than our competition. Where did the idea come about in the first place?

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Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85