Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2018

While his insights have come from large organizations, I give many of the same recommendations to every startup: Channel engagement performance. Metrics which must be tracked include number of leads, conversion rates by lead stage, velocity, growth rate, and total lead database size. Lead-stage content performance.

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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. Measuring message delivery in social media is a lot like measuring it in classic advertising, so classic metrics apply. Get attention and reach your audience. Project the future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2015

While his insights have come from large organizations, I give many of the same recommendations to every startup: Channel engagement performance. Metrics which must be tracked include number of leads, conversion rates by lead stage, velocity, growth rate, and total lead database size. Lead-stage content performance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2012

But very few are talking about how to measure your results, and the right metrics for optimizing your marketing environment. Jim Sterne, who has written six books on Internet advertising, marketing, and customer service, tackled this complex world of social media metrics in his book titled " Social Media Metrics."

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Berkonomics

MAY 18, 2017

If you have been following the last several weeks of these postings, then now we’re getting organized. The structure combined the listing of the goal with a series of strategies and then tactics, each designed to support each other, each measurable and made public throughout the organization. What is a strategy?

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Berkonomics

JUNE 24, 2021

These are not the strategic visionary skills, like leading companies through risky product launches, or steering the course through economic storms where leaders become oversized personalities for their superhuman efforts. These are the skills of daily operation, the ones that make or break a company – from the top.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

Big companies and small, from Amazon to Zappos, have set the bar high along the following lines: Business must be available when and where you are. Company amazingly finds you based on your interests. The best companies do their homework first to find the customers who will appreciate their service.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2013

Encinitas-based ForwardMetrics has just taken $1M in a seed funding round, to help companies better conduct their strategic planning. forwardmetrics forward metrics strategic planning software venture capital' The startup said that the new funding round brings its total raised to $1.75M. Source of the seed funding was not announced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2023

Every organization I get asked to help these days seems to realize that innovation is required on their part to survive and thrive in this age of constant change. Unfortunately, there are other organizations that still don’t see the need to innovate. They also want to know how they stack up to competitors.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 16, 2022

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. What is your leadership end game goal?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

And as I always assert, “Great companies are built in downturns. And it’s when mediocre companies get pulverized.” ” Case studies get done with ebullient CEO’s espousing the benefits of said software even though their organization was barely using the product. It’s when the game slows.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In fact, I believe the majority of true entrepreneurs are not interested in this new role, and jump ship quickly by hiring an experienced CEO or merging with another company, to start their next entrepreneurial effort. Implement metrics and set objectives for every organization. You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2010

But very few are talking about how to measure your results, and the right metrics for optimizing your marketing environment. Jim Sterne, who has written six books on Internet advertising, marketing, and customer service, tackled this complex world of social media metrics in his recent book titled " Social Media Metrics."

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Social Media Metrics Media Satisfaction 84

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2020

While his insights have come from large organizations, I give many of the same recommendations to every startup: Channel engagement performance. Metrics which must be tracked include number of leads, conversion rates by lead stage, velocity, growth rate, and total lead database size. Lead-stage content performance.

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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. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. Focus on talent and people growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2019

Technology is not the solution per se , but it provides the key enablement, drivers, and support for the required flexibility, integration, communication, metrics, and affordability that are required in the workplace today. The goal must be to eliminate organization silos, flatten hierarchies, and empower employees within projects.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2022

The long-standing rule of thumb that companies have ten years between significant disruptions was reset a few years ago to five years, according to experts Larry Downes and Paul Nunes. Stroh, which details the principles and metrics to follow for fostering innovation in any organization. by Patrick J.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

He makes the case, and I agree, that creativity in a company, large or small, doesn’t just happen – it requires a culture. If you want to build and maintain a creative culture in your organization, you need to make sure your operation is guided by these seven critical strategies: Fuel passion.

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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. Measuring message delivery in social media is a lot like measuring it in classic advertising, so classic metrics apply. Get attention and reach your audience. Project the future.

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Social Media Media Metrics Satisfaction 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

According to one study a decade ago, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. Managing business growth is more than metrics. In his classic book, “ Second Stage Entrepreneurship ,” Daniel J. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. I often answer the same way … * “First, yes, nearly every corner of our market is over-valued. By definition?—?I’m dot-com bonanza.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Netflix employees staged a walkout yesterday in response to the company’s handling of a Dave Chappelle special that premiered on October 5. Netflix has decided to air Chappelle’s special, which contains jokes about transgender people, even though some employees have voiced concerns they feel have been ignored by the company.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

These are not the strategic visionary skills, like leading companies through risky product launches, or steering the course through economic storms where leaders become oversized personalities for their superhuman efforts. These are the skills of daily operation, the ones that make or break a company – from the top.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Company leaders, as well as front-line team members usually realize when they have a problem, but most have no idea what is possible or how to change the culture. Take the necessary time to identify the most promising activities that will have the greatest impact on where your organization is right now.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 6, 2018

There is no scientific proof, no metric to measure the full meaning of “good.” and no special acknowledgement from any “good-watching” organization. But early successes, built upon the broken backs of adversaries, are rarely followed by long- term wins for the tyrant or for the tyrant’s company. My unscientific conclusion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Technology is not the solution per se , but it provides the key enablement, drivers, and support for the required flexibility, integration, communication, metrics, and affordability that are required in the workplace today. The goal must be to eliminate organization silos, flatten hierarchies, and empower employees within projects.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2022

He lived the philosophy that companies must be paranoid in order to survive, and continually disrupt their own markets to prevent overrun by competition. I still find many organizations that think of internal change in terms of months and years, or even worse, suffer from “analysis paralysis,” or studying a problem forever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Chris Musselwhite and Tammie Plouffe, in a classic HBR article on change readiness for large companies, define it as “the ability to continuously initiate and respond to change in ways that create advantage, minimize risk, and sustain performance.” This requires leadership, teamwork, and trust at all levels. Expedite change reaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2023

The current surge of working remotely, driven by the pandemic and international freelancing, has challenged our thinking on collaboration and leadership, both within teams and outside, to other organizations. Make sure you know what is really happening, through metrics and feedback from others. Start with ‘How are you?’

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 26, 2022

Four years and hundreds of long lines later, the truck is still there, but the company is taking on what co-founder Nile Dreiling calls “a stale $40 billion donut industry ” by expanding its presence into brick-and-mortar locations in Los Angeles after raising $9 million in financing. The fun part?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

I can think of many companies that waited too long to react to change, including Polaroid and Blockbuster , and were never able to recover. Don’t be lulled into a false sense of security by an initial innovation that has served your company well so far. Define realistic metrics to keep track of progress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2017

I believe these factors are key to the future success of every new startup, as well as every mature company: Leadership must be values-based and people focused. Company culture drives decision making and process. Historically, organizations played down the role of work-based personal relationships.

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Berkonomics

MAY 5, 2016

It must be the lifeblood of a company that is going to make a difference in an industry or the world. Many times it is a customer, an employee, or an industry conference that sparks the idea that drives you to create and express your vision of the future for your company or product line.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

They outline and give some positive recommendations to counter the key organizational impediments to fast transformation that I see all too often, even in businesses with top management committed to first-mover speed and agility: Passive resistance to change from within the organization.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 1, 2018

And it is one of the most important lessons you can learn as a manager or board member of a company or a non-profit enterprise. The CEO spoke, shared metrics, spoke of issues to be addressed during the coming week, and did a fine job of pointing the assembled troops in the right direction. If that fits, well then, this one is for you.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 22, 2016

The Most Important Metric. Near the conclusion of our discussion, I asked each CEO to name any non-obvious metrics by which they guide their businesses. Many companies create customer success teams to onboard and upsell customers. However, these metrics measure your company’s success, not that of your customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

It’s true that gifted visionaries bring many good things to an organization, including big picture ideas, seeing around corners, and a hunter mentality. The organization can’t keep up the pace of change, and soon loses motivation, productivity, and all sense of where they are headed. Yet they also come with a set of shortcomings.

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