Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. Train and coach continuously. Know your customers intimately.

Startup 154

Startup Training Customer Custom 154

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I used an analogy I heard from Michael Dougherty (founder of Jelli) recounting what First Round Capital told him, “sometimes you’re on the local train and sometimes you’re on the express train. The express train might get you there faster but there are no options to get off along the way.

Venture Capital 308

Venture Capital Training Startup Entrepreneur 308

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

Coach 144

Coach Metrics Social Network Competition 144

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the kay to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Training and coaching. Ownership. Accountability.

Coach 137

Coach Metrics Competition Ideas 137

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

while acknowledging that San Fran deals are often higher valuations due to increased competition amongst investors. For me I think that investors have got to accept the new reality in pricing if they want to remain competitive in markets like we’re seeing now. It’s hard to stop a train. Here’s the problem.

Startup 336

Startup Pricing Technical Review Marketing 336

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

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. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive. Marketing, sales, support, and service operations.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Startup Competition 131

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

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2023

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. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive. Marketing, sales, support, and service operations.

Outsource Development 115

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 115

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. validate your business model) Continuous improvement.

Startup 156

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 156

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

MAY 24, 2015

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. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive. Marketing, sales, support, and service operations.

Outsource Development 99

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 99

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308

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

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Highlight the competitive edge you bring to the market. Put operational systems and metrics in place early. Proactively provide training and team member rotation. Keep up with new technology for internal processes, actively hire people with new skills, and provide industry training for exposure to new techniques and competition.

Marketing 116

Marketing Resource Training Startup 116

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

JUNE 21, 2013

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. Train and coach continuously. Know your customers intimately.

Customer 92

Customer Custom Startup Services 92

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

MAY 23, 2012

Training and coaching. Once a new product is launched, a key metric is the ratio of new product sales to overall sales. Sustainable innovation is really the only sustainable competitive advantage. Yet survival in today’s world of rapid business change requires that you keep one step ahead of your competition.

Coach 98

Coach Ideas IP Sales 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

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. Here you will likely need to train others to help you, so more detail may be required in this process.

Startup 107

Startup Outsource Development Training Outsource 107

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2020

It’s easy for part-timers to make excuses that other priorities caused you to miss milestones, but predictable results and metrics in this mode are even more critical than for full-time members. Don’t wait for anyone to pay your way to class, or give you time off for training. Set realistic milestones and take them seriously.

Startup 150

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Metrics 150

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

Training and coaching. Once a new product is launched, a key metric is the ratio of new product sales to overall sales. Sustainable innovation is really the only sustainable competitive advantage. Yet survival in today’s world of rapid business change requires that you keep one step ahead of your competition.

Coach 93

Coach Ideas IP Sales 93

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

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. Here you will likely need to train others to help you, so more detail may be required in this process.

Startup 102

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 102

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Use data analysis and metrics to measure for results. Through analytics on current employees, you will be able to predict re-training requirements and minimize employee turnover. Efficiency in the workplace is the time it takes to do something, but it can ignore work quality and customer impact.

Tool 121

Tool Statistics Entrepreneur Metrics 121

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

First, you as the leader must be a role model for the actions you desire – including positive communication, active coaching, rewards for results, as well as providing required tools and training. Use metrics to assess needs and growth economics.

Customer 114

Customer Custom Satisfaction Metrics 114

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. validate your business model) Continuous improvement.

Startup 112

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 112

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

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

AUGUST 7, 2020

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. Attract, train, and reward only the best leaders.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Layoffs Social Media Metrics 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

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. Here you will likely need to train others to help you, so more detail may be required in this process.

Startup 95

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 95

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Sustainable competitive advantage. In all cases, you need customer support, formal processes and training in place. As an entrepreneur, make sure you understand your direct and indirect costs, staffing requirements, margins and metrics to make sure these elements are in place. Product distribution or service delivery.

Pricing 100

Pricing Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Forestall loss of momentum by creating a long-term roadmap of activities and objectives, with metrics, to track implementation and measure results. These insights, as well as my own experience, is why every business leader needs to focus on achieving their best employee culture as the key to agility, impact, and competitive advantage.

Organization 116

Organization Activity Metrics Training 116

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

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. Here you will likely need to train others to help you, so more detail may be required in this process.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

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 71

Metrics Training Netflix Resource 71

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

Coach 64

Coach Metrics Competition Ideas 64

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

Entrepreneur 64

Entrepreneur Coach Metrics Competition 64

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