Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

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. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage.

Coach 144

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. In today’s competitive world, with its accelerating rate of change, no competitive advantage lasts long. The only sustainable competitive advantage is creativity. Creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage. Celebrate ideas.

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Competition Netflix Ideas Metrics 135

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2023

Solution development and delivery. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs. For progress and success assessment, each of these needs some metrics defined, a training plan, and responsibility assignments within your team. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

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Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 115

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

From experience and from information about the competition, a coach creates a playbook that contains detailed plans for actions or plays that the entire team must know without question and execute without pause in order to win games and advance toward the playoffs. This one comes straight from football.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In my experience advising businesses, large and small, I have often been surprised by the level of complacency and general malaise I find in the ranks, with a resultant direct loss of productivity and competitiveness. Develop metrics to monitor work intensity. Let that be part of their job satisfaction.

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Satisfaction Metrics Competition Examples 108

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In my experience, competition is the biggest challenge here. This work requires market feedback, managing trials, and working with the sales team as well as developers. Some people are very good as defining metrics, roll-out programs, and reward systems for marketing and sales programs.

Activity 108

Activity Satisfaction Metrics Startup 108

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

But it will be patiently deployed, waiting for a cohort of founders who aren’t artificially clinging to 2021 valuation metrics. We could talk with customers, meet the entire management team, review financial plans, review customer purchasing cohorts, evaluate the competition, etc. In 2009 we could take a long time to review a deal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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Tips Startup Social Media News 161

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Implicit in effective marketing of yourself and your solution are a set of skills that every professional needs and can develop over time in business, whether their focus is on career advancement, or starting your own company. Using metrics to measure results and commitments. Marketing your personal brand and your vision.

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Startup Customer Custom Technical Review 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

Solution development and delivery. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs. For progress and success assessment, each of these needs some metrics defined, a training plan, and responsibility assignments within your team. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Startup Competition 131

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2023

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. (validate your business model) Continuous improvement. Don’t stand still. Emeril Lagasse is always ready to “kick it up a notch!” For now, get cooking! Marty Zwilling

Startup 112

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 112

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It does require leadership at all levels of the organization to find shared values, set clear expectations, attract and develop talent, accelerate execution of a winning strategy, and generate a feeling of alignment, togetherness, and engagement every day. It’s about turning personal values into repeatable behaviors.

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Organization Activity Metrics Training 116

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Develop a personal story as a visionary and learner. These show a focus on the business elements required for success, and metrics for ensuring accountability, management control, and feedback along the way. You need to show you have a “Plan B,” and a never-give-up mindset, in handling any competitive threat or customer reaction.

Ideas 140

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. For starters, the whole team needs to be constantly trained and encouraged to develop their skills.

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Startup Training Statistics Summary 116

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. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage.

Entrepreneur 64

Entrepreneur Coach Metrics Competition 64

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. In today’s competitive world, with its accelerating rate of change, no competitive advantage lasts long. The only sustainable competitive advantage is creativity. Creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage. Celebrate ideas.

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Company Companies Competition Netflix 90

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Innovative technologies require iterative development, while other ideas are primarily marketing and financial. You may be comfortable driving your future based on vision and emotion, or have long been a stickler for details and metrics. Some people love starting companies, while others enjoy scaling them.

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Startup Ideas Metrics Entrepreneur 94

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

For a hands-on guide in developing data-driven people strategies, I found some practical techniques in the classic book, “ The Data Driven Leader ,” by Jenny Dearborn and David Swanson. Use data analysis and metrics to measure for results. Bigger organizations should invest in the new “big data” tools.

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Tool Statistics Entrepreneur Metrics 121

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

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. (validate your business model) Continuous improvement. Don’t stand still. Emeril Lagasse is always ready to “kick it up a notch!” For now, get cooking! Marty Zwilling.

Startup 156

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 156

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. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the key to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 101

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

For example, many investors I know tell me they look for business plans that allocate the largest portion of a requested investment to marketing, but most often see the top “ use of funds ” to be further product or service development. The smart ones were already working on new features, and able to counter competition quickly.

Marketing 133

Marketing Customer Custom Outsource Development 133

socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It means competition is more fierce because formidable new competitors can arrive overnight. With so many APIs, SaaS ecosystems, and cloud platforms to rely on, a digital product that may have taken five years to get off the ground in 2000 can now be brought to life in a matter of months. Why has product management be so slow to adapt?

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Technical Review Metrics Ideas Product 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Measure progress through metrics on sales, revenue, and penetration. Look for more ways to demonstrate a competitive advantage, and partner with complementary organizations if you need strength in manufacturing, distribution, or customer support. Develop a mindset of improvement versus defense.

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Customer Custom Marketing Startup 91

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2018

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Scot Lawrie , the President and technical Co-founder of Los Angeles-based Coverfly (www.coverfly.com), and John Rhodes , Coverfly's head of Marketing and Business Development, to learn a bit more about the early stage, bootstrapped startup focused on Hollywood script writers. What is Coverfly?

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Hollywood Platform Competition 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

As a tech startup grows it needs to develop more process & management if it is to scale. As a founder, when you’ve been dealing with these kinds of objections for a couple of years it becomes natural and you easily handle objections on price, product & competition without much thought. It is tacit knowledge.

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Sales Startup Training Pricing 289

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Seksom most recently ran Corporate Development & Strategy for Twitter so he knows a thing or two about exits to corporates and whether he funds a startup or not I suspect many will get value from building a relationship with him for his expertise. He also wrote this excellent book on the Venture Capital industry that I highly recommend

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Venture Capital Writing Invest Pricing 471

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. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage.

Coach 64

Coach Metrics Competition Ideas 64

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Mithril is struggling to compete against ferocious competition in the growth-stage equity market. If there was a process or bidding war or something resembling a competition, he would just walk,” the employee said.

Venture Capital 202

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

No human or paper tracking systems are a competitive alternative. Live data also requires metrics and infrastructure that can interpret and evaluate the data, and smart businesses must develop these in the algorithms they use in their data-intelligence engines. Configure every decision step into real-time software.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Metrics Commerce Software 84

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

That keeps people from pushing themselves to develop the kind of new solutions that will permanently change the business for the better, versus short-term band-aids. It’s your job as a leader to be the model high performer, quantify the team view with metrics, and expand awareness to the best outside competition and new tools.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Layoffs Social Media Metrics 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2018

Most startups are created by one or two entrepreneurial founders, with a vision and focus on developing an innovative solution, rather than on developing people. Establish metrics on the culture, as well as the product. These metrics need the same top management attention as customer retention and sales metrics.

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Metrics Startup Netflix Customer 57

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

They also have a very smart and efficient approach to creative development that was critical to helping us scale,” she wrote. (If In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. “They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. The key takeaway?

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Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2018

These indicators are a mindset and actions that every one of us can develop and demonstrate, without any special birthright, genes, or advanced intelligence. If your business hires only to fill existing openings, it is falling behind, and ripe for competitive crisis. Set metrics and rewards specifically for innovation.

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Metrics IBM IBM Competition 58

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. In today’s competitive world, with its accelerating rate of change, no competitive advantage lasts long. The only sustainable competitive advantage is creativity. Creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage. Celebrate ideas.

Competition 65

Competition Netflix Ideas Metrics 65

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2019

For example, Apple has been a master at this, developing products like the iPod and iPhone before customers even knew they needed them, creating Apple stores with a whole new shopping and support experience, and intuitive usage needing no manuals. Highlight your competitive value, not your technology.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Customer Custom Competition 87

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2017

Yet, in my experience as a mentor to entrepreneurs, the majority of failures I see are related to starting and growing the business, not developing the solution. Manage the business with metrics and goals. Business objectives need to be quantified and measured to assess progress and positioning against competition.

Ideas 72

Ideas Startup Metrics Entrepreneur 72