Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

Solution development and delivery. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs. Show that you have a process to hire, fire, and train others as required. For progress and success assessment, each of these needs some metrics defined, a training plan, and responsibility assignments within your team.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Startup Competition 131

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. Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training.

Startup 116

Startup Training Statistics Summary 116

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2023

In all cases, don’t skip the basic training. 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. You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. Don’t stand still. For now, get cooking!

Startup 112

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 112

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.

Sales 289

Sales Startup Training Pricing 289

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.

Organization 116

Organization Activity Metrics Training 116

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.

Tool 121

Tool Statistics Entrepreneur Metrics 121

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In all cases, don’t skip the basic training. 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. You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. Don’t stand still. For now, get cooking!

Startup 156

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 156

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.

Customer 91

Customer Custom Marketing Startup 91

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

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

MAY 12, 2019

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. Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training.

Startup 94

Startup Training Statistics Summary 94

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

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

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

Solution development and delivery. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs. Show that you have a process to hire, fire, and train others as required. For progress and success assessment, each of these needs some metrics defined, a training plan, and responsibility assignments within your team.

Outsource Development 99

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 99

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. We knew there’s a better personal training experience to be had, so we set out to create one. We just found this hole in the fitness industry.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

Solution development and delivery. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs. Show that you have a process to hire, fire, and train others as required. For progress and success assessment, each of these needs some metrics defined, a training plan, and responsibility assignments within your team.

Ideas 62

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Competition 62

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2016

For example, early social media startup Friendster was so enamored with their early acceptance that they turned down a $30 million offer from Google, then quickly ran into money woes and tough competition. As the business grows, it pays to learn how to use automated financial tools, and review the key financial metrics daily.

Startup 57

Startup Training Entrepreneur Customer 57

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2018

In all cases, don’t skip the basic training. 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. You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. Don’t stand still. For now, get cooking!

Startup 81

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 81

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2017

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. Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training.

Startup 56

Startup Training Statistics Summary 56

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2014

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. Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training.

Entrepreneur 110

Entrepreneur Startup Training Statistics 110

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Develop your business plan. Product development process. Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. At this stage, you should start recruiting, hiring, paying, and training others to help you run your business. Manage human resources.

Startup 107

Startup Outsource Development Training Outsource 107

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

If the elements of your business aren't expertly developed and aligned, even the best dream will be in jeopardy. Here is my list of those elements, which every entrepreneur needs to develop before charging into the marketplace with high hopes and (sadly) a business that will likely get lost in the throng.

Pricing 100

Pricing Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

In all cases, don’t skip the basic training. 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. You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. Don’t stand still. For now, get cooking!

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

New product development process. Training and coaching. 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. Sustainable innovation is really the only sustainable competitive advantage. Reward your people.

Coach 98

Coach Ideas IP Sales 98

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

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. Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training.

Startup 93

Startup Training Statistics Summary 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Develop your business plan. Product development process. Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. At this stage, you should start recruiting, hiring, paying, and training others to help you run your business. Manage human resources.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

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. Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training.

Startup 94

Startup Marketing Training Statistics 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

New product development process. Training and coaching. 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. Sustainable innovation is really the only sustainable competitive advantage. Reward your people.

Coach 93

Coach Ideas IP Sales 93

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Develop your business plan. Product development process. Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. At this stage, you should start recruiting, hiring, paying, and training others to help you run your business. Manage human resources.

Startup 102

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 102

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2017

For a hands-on guide in developing data-driven people strategies, I found some practical techniques in a new 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.

Tool 53

Tool Entrepreneur Statistics Metrics 53

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2012

In all cases, don’t skip the basic training. 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. You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. then you can start writing a recipe.

Startup 96

Startup Writing Metrics Marketing 96

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In the case of MakeSpace we had huge initial successes in New York City as Rahul led the scaling of our drivers, our trucks and our warehouses and we figured out the right price points to beat the local competition. We have been able to build deep customer insights on product, pricing, service, geography, competition, etc.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2010

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. Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training.

Startup 78

Startup Training Statistics Summary 78

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Develop your business plan. Product development process. Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. At this stage, you should start recruiting, hiring, paying, and training others to help you run your business. Manage human resources.

Startup 95

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 95

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2011

In all cases, don’t skip the basic training. 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. You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. then you can start writing a recipe.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur Startup Writing Metrics 91

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. Semick: We’re a very metrics driven company, and we have been from the beginning. Metrics related to customer acquisition, lifetime value and churn.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2010

New product development process. Training and coaching. 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. Sustainable innovation is really the only sustainable competitive advantage. Reward your people.

Coach 49

Coach Ideas IP Sales 49