Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2018

Customers and analysts are always looking for innovation indicators. I will suggest to you as a business owner and entrepreneur that focus on certain key behaviors will drive innovation without waiting for the next competitive crisis: Be outspoken in communicating proactive required change. People work on what they get measured on.

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Metrics IBM IBM Competition 58

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2013

But the reality is that sellers are no longer in charge of the customer buying process. Reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to research online before they buy, and over 50% check user reviews before making a decision. The best way to do this is with real customer interviews.

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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. Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution.

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Competition Metrics Startup Invest 113

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2017

But the reality is that sellers are no longer in charge of the customer buying process. Reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to research online before they buy, and over 50% check user reviews before making a decision. The best way to do this is with real customer interviews.

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Search Engine Optimization Startup SEO Customer 58

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

After reviewing her day-by-day recommendations to improve productivity in a single week, I have extrapolated her guidance to ten productivity tips specifically for entrepreneurs to regain that competitive edge: Focus on managing yourself rather than managing others. Define clear goals and metrics for your productivity.

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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. Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

But the reality is that sellers are no longer in charge of the customer buying process. Reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to research online before they buy, and over 50% check user reviews before making a decision. The best way to do this is with real customer interviews.

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Tips Search Engine Optimization Summary Startup 93

InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

One way to accelerate your research is to speak with other startup CEOs who recently closed fundraising rounds. Based on your research from Step 1, you should be able to communicate meaningful and insightful comments regarding the partners’ tweets, blog content, etc. Even the most jaded VC cannot resist authentic flattery.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Death By Competitive Analysis - Steve Blank , March 1, 2010 Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product. In response he sent me a competitive analysis. It looked like every competitive analysis I had done for 20 years, (ok maybe better.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth.

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.Net Metrics Competition Template 89

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

There are a million ways to either research your industries market size and you’re likely to have to do some basic estimations to figure out much of that is addressable to you. But not doing basic research makes no sense. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Measure yourself against a researched plan, or your “out of cash” brick wall will be looming before you know it. Customer service and support. But having no process does not make you more competitive.

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Startup Outsource Development Training Outsource 107

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. Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution.

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Invest Tips Competition Metrics 74

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Implement metrics and analytics. You need to allocate a few minutes a day, or every week, to researching via blogs and websites like Tech News World the latest recommendations and reviews. The trick is to listen first, add something of value to the conversation, and pull the customers to you because they trust you and want more.

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Social Media Media Startup Blogging 95

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Measure yourself against a researched plan, or your “out of cash” brick wall will be looming before you know it. Customer service and support. But having no process does not make you more competitive.

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Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Measure yourself against a researched plan, or your “out of cash” brick wall will be looming before you know it. Customer service and support. But having no process does not make you more competitive.

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Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 102

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

There’s plenty of capital out there, but there’s also a lot of competition for startup funding. This can be a great way to test your product and get customer feedback. Customer financing can minimize your risk, providing more cushion to meet your milestones. His best advice: take capital where you can get it. Crowdfunding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Measure yourself against a researched plan, or your “out of cash” brick wall will be looming before you know it. Customer service and support. But having no process does not make you more competitive.

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Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 95

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

We also allow the users to have a custom URL, for example, resumebucket.com/joshstomel. Is this at all competitive with LinkedIn? There are lots of people there doing competitive intelligence, or doing research on an industry or landscape. So this fixes a lot of problems.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

That, plus I love the space of high-customer-service, focused eCommerce for moms worried about what their kids eat & wear.&#. She did a bunch of research on it and finally found a small number of safe brands. EcoMom’s metrics improved throughout this process and that’s when I decided to invest.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

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. That portion we call data aggregation where you are looking at one metric across a lot of different data sources. MW: We love the customers in LA.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? What technology research is required? What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? Make sure you are continuously looking at the business and customers.

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CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop 231

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Susan Etlinger – Altimeter , research and consulting company for business disruption. Joergen Aaboe – Momentfeed , combining life foot traffic with reduced customer acquisition costs. Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool. Chris Cox – Invoc , inbound call analytics.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99