Berkonomics

AUGUST 1, 2019

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. But you know that of course.

Coach

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Decide what to measure and create metrics. Frequent and informal recognition with peers is the most powerful incentive to innovate and change the culture. It’s always valuable and symbolic to take the time to speak with real live people, both informally and in executive interviews. Design your invisible competitive advantage.

Development

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

If you have investors or board members that have wide relationships you can get significantly more value out of them by keeping them informed. So naturally we’re pushing for him to drop critical information when their paths cross organically. More information comes out. I am on a board that does business with Yahoo!

Tips

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. With this information and challenge, how would you measure your effectiveness as a leader? There are many roads to Rio, so they say.

Resource

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2023

In the same way, great entrepreneurs and company leaders should no longer rely on faceless and nameless processes to drive business strategy and innovation to stay competitive. Focus on two or three pertinent metrics in any situation. Unbundle projects into smaller elements, and personalize the top couple of metrics for each team.

Customer

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2020

In the same way, great entrepreneurs and company leaders should no longer rely on faceless and nameless processes to drive business strategy and innovation to stay competitive. Focus on two or three pertinent metrics in any situation. Unbundle projects into smaller elements, and personalize the top couple of metrics for each team.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Decide what to measure and create metrics. Frequent and informal recognition with peers is the most powerful incentive to innovate and change the culture. It’s always valuable and symbolic to take the time to speak with real live people, both informally and in executive interviews. Design your invisible competitive advantage.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

Formalize the use of tools and information technology. 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. Show that you have a process to hire, fire, and train others as required.

Entrepreneur

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

By linking the activities to P&L--not click rates, or cost per sale, or cost per lead, or brand awareness, which are all soft metrics--we are able to give our customers ammunition to take to their board or to finance, and prove the true effectiveness of their marketing and the true effectiveness of the agencies involved.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

Social Media

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. To help companies make informed business decisions, we are building statistical models that show information at higher-than-the-platform level. The key takeaway? Editor’s note: The interview below has been edited for length and clarity.

Commerce

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

That’s dumb, exaggerated or just ill informed. EcoMom’s metrics improved throughout this process and that’s when I decided to invest. The ability to show traction is actually the most important piece of information on profiles. AngelList has introduced new competition and competition in any industry is always good.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2023

Formalize the use of tools and information technology. 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. Show that you have a process to hire, fire, and train others as required.

Outsource Development

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. The best relationships allow for informal conversations about concerns that can be acted on later.

Satisfaction

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In the same way, great entrepreneurs and company leaders should no longer rely on faceless and nameless processes to drive business strategy and innovation to stay competitive. Focus on two or three pertinent metrics in any situation. Unbundle projects into smaller elements, and personalize the top couple of metrics for each team.

Social Media

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

We also provide the consumer a slew of tools, that will help them upload their resume and manage their online identity, plus we also have a resume builder function, detailed metrics on exactly who is viewing their resume, and the ability to create and manage multiple versions of their resume. Is this at all competitive with LinkedIn?

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little though given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2022

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? The real opportunity for entrepreneurs is to provide solutions that solve a problem better than the competition, while also providing sustainability and social responsibility. Even informal results can be your best advertising.

Startup

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Similarly, you can add labels to cards to provide more information at-a-glance. The Dashboard offers a bird's-eye view of projects, letting you see key metrics such as due dates, assigned cards, and cards-per-list so bottlenecks can be prevented before they begin. .” New sidebar.

Software Review

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2018

In the same way, great entrepreneurs and company leaders should no longer rely on faceless and nameless processes to drive business strategy and innovation to stay competitive. Focus on two or three pertinent metrics in any situation. Unbundle projects into smaller elements, and personalize the top couple of metrics for each team.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? The real opportunity for entrepreneurs is to provide solutions that solve a problem better than the competition, while also providing sustainability and social responsibility. Even informal results can be your best advertising.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Decide what to measure and create metrics. Frequent and informal recognition with peers is the most powerful incentive to innovate and change the culture. It’s always valuable and symbolic to take the time to speak with real live people, both informally and in executive interviews. Design your invisible competitive advantage.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

Formalize the use of tools and information technology. 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. Show that you have a process to hire, fire, and train others as required.

Outsource Development

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2013

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? The real opportunity for entrepreneurs is to provide solutions that solve a problem better than the competition, while also providing sustainability and social responsibility. Even informal results can be your best advertising.

Entrepreneur

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. Today all of our banking and payment information is accessible online and we are one-click from buying from Amazon, iTunes, the AppStore and PayPal.

Venture Capital

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2019

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? The real opportunity for entrepreneurs is to provide solutions that solve a problem better than the competition, while also providing sustainability and social responsibility. Even informal results can be your best advertising.

Startup

CEO Flow

JUNE 8, 2009

The internet has changed business – in helpful and challenging ways: * We have more information and metrics – and more confusion from all the clutter. * The company culture is pressured, competitive, political. * Are we working harder, under more pressure, but running in place? Mistakes are punished.

Metrics

CEO Flow

JUNE 8, 2009

The internet has changed business – in helpful and challenging ways: * We have more information and metrics – and more confusion from all the clutter. * The company culture is pressured, competitive, political. * Are we working harder, under more pressure, but running in place? Mistakes are punished.

Metrics

CEO Flow

JUNE 8, 2009

The internet has changed business – in helpful and challenging ways: * We have more information and metrics – and more confusion from all the clutter. * Goal setting and tracking metrics take up 80% of the attention; prioritization of projects and goals is 20%. * Mistakes are punished. Burnout is common. No burnout.

Metrics

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Leverage information technology. But having no process does not make you more competitive. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Leverage information technology. But having no process does not make you more competitive. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2023

I see this happening in smaller ways often, where there is minimal focus on competition. Here are some key initiatives that I recommend to every business owner and leader to stave off new competitors before they seriously impact or cause a competitive crisis in your business: Continually compare yourself to known competitors.

Metrics

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Leverage information technology. But having no process does not make you more competitive. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Leverage information technology. But having no process does not make you more competitive. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important.

Outsource Development