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.

Competition 148

Competition Metrics Demand Customer 148

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. Company values must include respect for the environment and social good. No one is happy or satisfied.

Company 78

Company Companies Coach Satisfaction 78

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. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge.

Sales 147

Sales Metrics Guide Startup 147

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

Assess many change initiatives have come to fruition from your team, visit a couple of key customers and listen for future needs, and study your newest competitor. Other experts point that your employee improvement culture, sense of direction, personal purpose, and job satisfaction may be more important than any metrics.

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Metrics Training Satisfaction IBM 122

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2021

Do case studies and gather customer testimonials, as well as build relationships that lead to advocacy, loyalty, and word-of-mouth support. Networking is all about marketing yourself and your company. Build a marketing plan with deliverables and metrics. Avoid the use of jargon, big claims, and special promotions.

Technical Advisors 154

Technical Advisors Tips Marketing Case Study 154

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.” In summary, change will happen.

Startup 116

Startup Training Statistics Summary 116

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2023

As a business consultant, I can get you started in this transformation, but I was pleased to see more detailed guidance, including things to watch out for, in a recent book, “ The Ecosystem Economy ,” by Venkat Atluri and Miklos Dietz, both senior partners at McKinsey & Company with much experience.

Outsource Development 140

Outsource Development Outsource Startup Metrics 140

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2021

For larger and mature companies, the hard part seems to be giving up the familiar space that isn’t working so well anymore, so that you can focus on a new segment or opportunity. It’s a tough world even for big-company generalists, who take on the complexities of product diversification. Well-articulated goals and metrics.

Startup 154

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Metrics 154

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2022

These are ones behind many of the modern game-changing companies, like Pinterest and Tesla. Put it behind you by setting your own realistic metrics for success and happiness. Find the men and women you wish to be more like, talk to them, study them, and learn from them. Expand your support group and test your limits.

Satisfaction 153

Satisfaction Entrepreneur Writing Startup 153

Frank Addante

MAY 18, 2016

At Rubicon Project, I’ve found these tools to be vital in helping me convey the story of our company. When you’re telling your story, include a hero: someone who is a champion of your company’s purpose. Details can come in the form of concrete deliverables, metrics, and results. They have lofty goals, and take risks.

Company 40

Company Companies Advertising Startup 40

Frank Addante

MAY 18, 2016

At Rubicon Project, I’ve found these tools to be vital in helping me convey the story of our company. When you’re telling your story, include a hero: someone who is a champion of your company’s purpose. Details can come in the form of concrete deliverables, metrics, and results. They have lofty goals, and take risks.

Company 40

Company Companies Advertising Startup 40

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. Company values must include respect for the environment and social good. No one is happy or satisfied.

Coach 132

Coach Satisfaction Startup Organization 132

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 9, 2013

During the period studied, only "1.3% of privately held companies had a female founder, 6.5% In a similar vein, a 2012 study by the Kauffman Foundation noted that women account for only 10% of all the founders of high-tech startups. As more female CEOs build successful companies with great outcomes, this should change.

Customer 185

Customer Custom Study Metrics 185

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2022

I fully support and appreciate his case studies and conclusions on specific required personal initiatives, and how these can change people, organizations, and even entire industries. Your company finances, reputation, or even your survival may be on the line. Thompson is a well-recognized successful values-based leader and speaker.

Case Study 139

Case Study Customer Custom Tool 139

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2021

According to consistent feedback over the past several years, even in the best companies, employees seem stuck at less than 40 percent happy and "fully engaged.” Every study shows that people are really engaged in their work, if they feel that it has value and purpose. Strive to practice strength-focused leadership.

Satisfaction 168

Satisfaction Coach Resource Tool 168

Frank Addante

APRIL 7, 2016

Great company culture isn’t just about ping pong tables, free lunches, bouncy ball chairs and free gummy bears. As CEO of Rubicon Project, a lot of people ask me what defines the culture of our company. Here’s my take on a few things effective company culture is about…and a few things it’s not about: 1.

Company 40

Company Companies Class Metrics 40

Frank Addante

APRIL 7, 2016

Great company culture isn’t just about ping pong tables, free lunches, bouncy ball chairs and free gummy bears. As CEO of Rubicon Project, a lot of people ask me what defines the culture of our company. Here’s my take on a few things effective company culture is about…and a few things it’s not about: 1.

Company 40

Company Companies Class Metrics 40

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Per the latest study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic has grown 17-fold over the past 5 years, reaching 11.5 Facebook has created an environment where millions of people can hold billions of conversations with people and companies, transforming how people expect to interact with each other and the world.

Technology 97

Technology Social Media Startup Entertainment 97

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Mr. Everhart distills his leadership insights from many decades in one of the largest business-to-business marketing agencies, working with companies across the country. You must have a strong Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) with a clear strategy for spending, and metrics to gauge results.

Customer 100

Customer Custom Acquisition Technical Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

According to one study a while back, 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. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge.

Startup 97

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 97

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2017

We caught up with the company's founder and CEO, David Baird , a former AOL executive, to learn more about what Gigmor is working on. How did you start the company? David Baird: I've been a musician since I was five, studying classical piano, and evolved into guitar like so many other people. What is Gigmor? READ MORE>>.

Startup 150

Startup Metrics Offshore Sites 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

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. It’s actually quite hard to lay out an annual company strategy that is articulate and underpinned by facts.

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Activity Conference Press Case Study 164

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2020

These are ones behind many of the modern game-changing companies, like Pinterest and Foursquare. Put it behind you by setting your own realistic metrics for success and happiness. Find the men and women you wish to be more like, talk to them, study them, and learn from them. Expand your support group and test your limits.

Entrepreneur 123

Entrepreneur Satisfaction Writing Startup 123

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2019

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.” In summary, change will happen.

Startup 94

Startup Training Statistics Summary 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 Facebook has created an environment where millions of people can hold billions of conversations with people and companies, transforming how people expect to interact with each other and the world.

Startup 106

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 106

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

We caught up with Clayton Lewis , the company's CEO (and also a General Partner at Maveron), here in Los Angeles last week as it launched into this market. Clayton Lewis: What is interesting, is if you can find companies in any of the four sectors, it's rare to find those who look at the human product as you are, which is a system.

Coach 100

Coach Startup Study Venture Capital 100

InfoChachkie

APRIL 30, 2012

A/B testing requires marketers to leave their egos and emotions at the door and allow quantifiable metrics to drive their decisions. In one study, 56% of the subjects were twice as likely to complete a survey sent by someone with a name similar to their own, versus 30% of the subjects in the control group.

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Study Advertising Research Customer 243

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Per the latest study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic has grown 18-fold over the past 5 years, reaching 7.2 Facebook has created an environment where millions of people can hold billions of conversations with people and companies, transforming how people expect to interact with each other and the world.

Startup 55

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 55

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

According to one study a while back, 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. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge.

Startup 108

Startup Sales Metrics Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2019

I fully support and appreciate his case studies and conclusions on specific required personal initiatives, and how these can change people, organizations, and even entire industries. Your company finances, reputation, or even your survival may be on the line. Thompson is a well-recognized successful values-based leader and speaker.

Case Study 93

Case Study Customer Custom Tool 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2019

In fact, you may have noticed in a recent study , that the business CEO turnover rate last year was the highest in 10 years, and may go even higher this year. Leaders in new companies who have had to do much of the work themselves sometimes find it hard to now find time for the people who are now critical to their future.

Tips 97

Tips Mentor Coach Metrics 97

socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

For this morning's company profile, we thought we'd connect with ShareSquare (www.getsharesquare.com), a newly funded Los Angeles startup focused on QR barcodes -- 3D barcodes -- focused on musicians and entertainers. We caught up with Matthias Galica , the firm's founder, to hear more about the company.

Startup 220

Startup West Hollywood Metrics Entertainment 220

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

In a recent study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 81% in 2013 and will reach 1.3 Facebook has created an environment where millions of people can hold billions of conversations with people and companies, transforming how people expect to interact with each other and the world.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2019

In the popular press, it’s easy to find articles that will convince you that companies with a good culture, such as Google, do it by lavishing perks and benefits , including some combination of free meals, trips and parties, financial bonuses, gyms, and a dog-friendly environment. What the team feels is more important than what they know.

Competition 76

Competition Coach Case Study Statistics 76

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

According to one study a while back, 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. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge.

Startup 56

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 56

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2019

The most successful companies today build a strategy to proactively anticipate the needs of their customers, as a group and individually, and totally delight them with all aspects of the shopping experience, value, delivery, and help with any follow-on questions or problems. Highlight your competitive value, not your technology.

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Technical Review Customer Custom Competition 87