Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Develop metrics to monitor work intensity. These metrics are also the best way to gauge when your team needs more help, and identifying strong and weak contributors. You can counter positively by encouraging everyone to go home on time, managing meetings carefully, and coaching positively.

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Satisfaction Metrics Competition Examples 108

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential.

Sales 147

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2023

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. Don’t stand still.

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Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 112

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2021

In reality, the picture is a bit larger than this, as outlined in the classic book “ Leading with GRIT ,” by Laurie Sudbrink, a well-known business leadership coach and speaker. Usually the real culprit is procrastination, lack of focus, or low productivity and lack of metrics. Wait and hope for a miracle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This must include metrics and tracking, with the necessary systems and resources to act, recalibrate, and iterate as required. Team members must be engaged and enabled to do the job – that means aligned, equipped, coached, supported, and valued for the work and changes ahead. The process must focus not only on the “what,” but the “how.”

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Coach Resource Summary Metrics 159

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In his classic book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. Leadership brand development. Focus on talent and people growth.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

There are even startups looking into that, like Shiru, which recently raised $17 million to develop more healthier bonding agents for meat. Boyd Myers noted those claims were inspiration for how AKUA approached developing the ingredient list for its kelp burger, which has 15 ingredients , all of which are food or food-derived.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2023

Another important driver of meaning at work is how the work relates to your career or personal development. Make sure you know what is really happening, through metrics and feedback from others. Provide coaching and facilitate mentorship from others in the company for growth. Always communicate with optimism and joy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. Don’t stand still.

Startup 156

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 156

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Business risks are not just development risks. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. Ownership.

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Entrepreneur Coach Metrics Competition 64

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together. Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent. They are usually too self-centered to see the need for developing skills and leadership in the other members of the team, or building a succession plan.

Startup 82

Startup Ideas Organization Entrepreneur 82

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Business risks are not just development risks. Training and coaching. Set milestones and meet them. Ownership. Value creation. Idea management. Observe and measure.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together. Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent. They are usually too self-centered to see the need for developing skills and leadership in the other members of the team, or building a succession plan.

Startup 131

Startup Ideas Organization Entrepreneur 131

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

In his classic book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. Leadership brand development. Focus on talent and people growth.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Organization Coach Invest 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Business risks are not just development risks. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. Ownership.

Coach 64

Coach Metrics Competition Ideas 64

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential.

Startup 97

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

We'll talk more about that, but what we do is bring the data cloud to life through licensed professional coaches, who understand the incentives of behavior change, and meet participants where they are, through three or four occasional recommendations each month. They'll take the risk of chocolate cake over the risk of diabetes in five years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

The keys to sustainable success require you to retain that sense of urgency, focus, and vigilance after the launch that you felt during the development and early funding stages. For a successful launch and scalable growth, they need to establish many checkpoints, with metrics to assess their progress and alignment with the vision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. Don’t stand still.

Startup 81

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 81

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

New product development process. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. Once a new product is launched, a key metric is the ratio of new product sales to overall sales. Based on ROI, incentives should be developed for all participants. Idea management.

Coach 98

Coach Ideas IP Sales 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2015

In reality, the picture is a bit larger than this, as outlined in a new book “ Leading with GRIT ,” by Laurie Sudbrink, a well-known business leadership coach and speaker. Usually the real culprit is procrastination, lack of focus, or low productivity and lack of metrics. Wait and hope for a miracle.

Startup 116

Startup Entrepreneur Class Coach 116

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

We''d bee talking about it for over a year, and it hadn''t made any sense at the stage of development of the company I was working on at the time, but it''s now come to a good place where it made sense. That might be overused, but it''s an important metric. So, we made it happen. What''s your focus area at Upfront?

Entrepreneur 191

Entrepreneur Startup Metrics Capital 191

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential.

Startup 108

Startup Sales Metrics Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. Don’t stand still.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

New product development process. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. Once a new product is launched, a key metric is the ratio of new product sales to overall sales. Based on ROI, incentives should be developed for all participants. Idea management.

Coach 93

Coach Ideas IP Sales 93

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In a new book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. Leadership brand development. Focus on talent and people growth.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Organization Coach Invest 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential.

Startup 56

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 56

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Not only do our business clients turn to us for lawsuits, but they also ask us to create efficient processes and develop their brands. Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.” You are writing about the essentials of business. That's great.

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Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2015

This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together. Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent. They are usually too self-centered to see the need for developing skills and leadership in the other members of the team, or building a succession plan.

Startup 99

Startup Ideas Organization Entrepreneur 99

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential.

Sales 96

Sales Metrics Startup Entrepreneur 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2016

In reality, the picture is a bit larger than this, as outlined in a recent book “ Leading with GRIT ,” by Laurie Sudbrink, a well-known business leadership coach and speaker. Usually the real culprit is procrastination, lack of focus, or low productivity and lack of metrics. Wait and hope for a miracle.

Entrepreneur 59

Entrepreneur Startup Class Coach 59

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. To show these companies that they can remain in LA. 23 companies have gone through Launchpad LA. This education will continue.

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Venture Capital Funding Startup GRP Partners 287

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Successful entrepreneurs start with a customer problem, and develop a solution, rather than the other way around. Develop market insights and a growth vision far beyond today. Manage by metrics rather than by crisis and emotion. Technologists, in particular, are prone to building solutions looking for a problem.

Startup 55

Startup Entrepreneur Technical Review Customer 55

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2017

His 30 years of business and coaching experience bring credibility to his perspective. Develop an attitude of gratitude and humility. Some things need to be done whether we like them or not; for example, daily cash-flow analysis and business metrics. I like the points made in the classic book, “ You Can Win ,” by Shiv Khera.

Software Review 57

Software Review Technical Review Startup Press 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2016

This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together. Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent. They are usually too self-centered to see the need for developing skills and leadership in the other members of the team, or building a succession plan.

Startup 55

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Organization 55

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. Others won’t adapt and won’t step aside and cause major or terminal damage to their business.

Social Network 59

Social Network Startup Demand Entrepreneur 59

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2010

New product development process. Training and coaching. Ongoing coaching from the top is essential to maintain the attitude and spirit. Once a new product is launched, a key metric is the ratio of new product sales to overall sales. Based on ROI, incentives should be developed for all participants. Idea management.

Coach 49

Coach Ideas IP Sales 49