Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works. Create an action plan with metrics. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media 135

Social Media Framework Media Metrics 135

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

Products and services for a business need to be attuned to customer requirements, cost and quality tradeoffs, with milestones for pricing and completion. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Formalize the use of tools and information technology.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Startup Competition 131

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 110

Startup Entrepreneur Capital Examples 110

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works. Create an action plan with metrics. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media 102

Social Media Media Product Metrics 102

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 97

Startup Metrics Competition Organization 97

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. DTC entrepreneurs are more focused on immediate impact, because if they’re not selling product, there’s no large brand propping them up. It won’t be a fit if there’s no real unique value prop for the product.

Commerce 211

Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

Image via Pixabay Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works. Create an action plan with metrics. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media 96

Social Media Media Marketing Metrics 96

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths. Look for and reward quantum changes, like cutting cycle time in half, in your processes, products, and services.

Technology 97

Technology Social Media Startup Entertainment 97

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. ” These allow you to clone one card to appear on multiple boards.

Software Review 149

Software Review Guide Technical Review Class 149

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We back very early stage companies and work alongside executive teams as their build their teams, launch their products, announce their companies and raise their first downstream capital rounds. We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts.

Venture Capital 471

Venture Capital Writing Invest Pricing 471

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 93

Startup Entrepreneur Capital Examples 93

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 81

Startup Metrics Organization Ideas 81

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths. Look for and reward quantum changes, like cutting cycle time in half, in your processes, products, and services.

Startup 106

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 106

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

Products and services for a business need to be attuned to customer requirements, cost and quality tradeoffs, with milestones for pricing and completion. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Formalize the use of tools and information technology.

Outsource Development 99

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 99

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? How are we going to manage the product roadmap?

CTO Coach 231

CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop 231

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works. Create an action plan with metrics. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media 62

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 62

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.)

Startup 150

Startup Software Review Competition SoCal 150

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths. Look for and reward quantum changes, like cutting cycle time in half, in your processes, products, and services.

Startup 55

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 55

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 104

Startup Entrepreneur Examples Satisfaction 104

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

Products and services for a business need to be attuned to customer requirements, cost and quality tradeoffs, with milestones for pricing and completion. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Formalize the use of tools and information technology.

Ideas 62

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Competition 62

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. I have always worked on early stage products. Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2017

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.

Tips 55

Tips Startup Entrepreneur Examples 55

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works. Create an action plan with metrics. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media 91

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 91

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. Leverage information technology. But having no process does not make you more competitive.

Startup 107

Startup Outsource Development Training Outsource 107

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 98

Entrepreneur Startup Examples Satisfaction 98

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2012

Bloom’s “ The New Experts ,” that today’s customers are armed with three lethal weapons – instant access to information about every potential purchase, immense choice, and real-time comparison of competitive prices. This moment is the period whey your customer is actually using your products and services. Your multiplier moment.

Customer 93

Customer Custom Startup Competition 93

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

With perfect information and too much competition you pay up or they walk right down the street and get it from somebody else.” And if you’re lucky and hit product/market fit straight out of the gate – awesome. Money when you find product / market fit is an extreme differentiator. Until it didn’t.

Funding 150

Funding Venture Capital Startup Marketing 150

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Bloom’s “ The New Experts ,” that today’s customers are armed with three lethal weapons – instant access to information about every potential purchase, immense choice, and real-time comparison of competitive prices. This moment is the period whey your customer is actually using your products and services. Your multiplier moment.

Customer 88

Customer Custom Competition Metrics 88

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For instance, we ask what makes your solution special and, in another question, ask you to specifically drill down into your competition and how you are better. You don’t need to list your competition in both places. We want hard data and metrics – we want proof. with actual data and metrics. The #TrustMeFail.

Tips 70

Tips Startup Statistics Metrics 70

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. If you have investors or board members that have wide relationships you can get significantly more value out of them by keeping them informed.

Tips 365

Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. Leverage information technology. But having no process does not make you more competitive.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

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. * We can develop and deploy products faster – far beyond our clients’ ability to absorb them. * Anyone can work hard, hire people and raise more money.

Metrics 66

Metrics Slides Competition Activity 66

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. * We can develop and deploy products faster – far beyond our clients’ ability to absorb them. * Anyone can work hard, hire people and raise more money.

Metrics 66

Metrics Slides Competition Activity 66

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. * We can develop and deploy products faster – far beyond our clients’ ability to absorb them. * Anyone can work hard, hire people and raise more money.

Metrics 66

Metrics Startup Slides Activity 66

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. Leverage information technology. But having no process does not make you more competitive.

Startup 102

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 102

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 3, 2013

SFA had many of the same adoption challenges as those that the advertising market is facing today: management wanted to use it because it simplified and standardized sales force management; it offered one dashboard, one place to view metrics on the organization and one place to store critical customer information. Sound familiar?

Advertising 76

Advertising Sales Organization Customer 76

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. Leverage information technology. But having no process does not make you more competitive.

Startup 95

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 95