Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Immediately following the closing of the round I flew out to a big real estate conference in France to meet with prospective customers. I plodded through the conference and went straight to a doctor in London. I stopped doing conferences, traveling or pitching to VCs. I somehow never really felt stressed during all of this.

Entrepreneur

Berkonomics

MAY 5, 2016

Many times it is a customer, an employee, or an industry conference that sparks the idea that drives you to create and express your vision of the future for your company or product line. But no enterprise can grow or succeed without the delegation of tasks and without the thoughtful use of metrics to measure progress and success.

Metrics

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2021

Establish and evaluate metrics at multiple levels. As times change, you may need new metrics, such as total experience, web site hits, and social media complaints. A good way to start this activity is to participate in industry conferences, and build relationships with peers and other leaders.

Marketing

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

In a world where it’s easier to judge the immediate value of a business, I know that metrics like “time on site&# matter. This morning, 7/19/11 we will hold an open Twitter conference on job creation in America. That’s what I plan to talk about at the TweetMyJobs conference. That’s what AOL was.

Social Media

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Lee and I were recently at the Exponential Conference, and Lee got up in front of the whole group, primarily healthcare providers. Third, there's ultimately the real opportunity to develop scientific, validated metrics for wellness. Clayton Lewis: We say we're launching a new industry, called Scientific Wellness. READ MORE>>.

Coach

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2023

More meetings in your conference room won’t get to the truth as well as simply talking to people who interact with customers directly. 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. Keeping it simple is the best course.

Customer

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

In my opinion no amount of clever marketing or chest beating at conferences can create a market if you don’t have an amazing product to begin with. The team has stated it and has built metrics around key goals for future success.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2020

More meetings in your conference room won’t get to the truth as well as simply talking to people who interact with customers directly. 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. Keeping it simple is the best course.

Social Media

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Ask for short conference calls. By being so metrics driven we can have a lot more quantifiable and objective discussions at board meetings and at mid-point reviews. . If anything we feel indebted to him for his hard work. I would say the norm for many early-stage companies is somewhere between 6-10 in-person meetings per year.

Tips

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2016

What you Before Sets the Course for How Well the Day Goes Make sure you send your financial and operating metrics no less than 72 hours before the board meeting — even better if it can be a week in advance. There are always times where one member needs to be on a web conference or telephone call due to travel conflicts.

Guide

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

They’re easily impressed when you’re selected for TechCrunch50 but not easily engaged in a detailed discussion about your conversion metrics. They work for a prestigious firm, have sat on big boards, went to HBS and speak at lots of conferences. You know in your gut who they are.

Venture Capital

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

We were invited in March to the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference to present. Over the summer, we are going to regroup and look at the key metrics, in terms of the number of users we got, how much we spent on marketing, and how many transactions went right or wrong, and bottle it up and reproduce it in the fall across new campuses.

UCLA

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

Socaltech has partnered with Sutton Capital Partners with their Recurring Revenue Conference for several yars. Leaseville, the pioneer in the virtual lease-to-own (LTO) space demonstrated strong metrics on its new product this year and is now poised to scale significantly. What was the biggest news for you/your company this year?

Capital

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

More meetings in your conference room won’t get to the truth as well as simply talking to people who interact with customers directly. 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. Keeping it simple is the best course.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2018

More meetings in your conference room won’t get to the truth as well as simply talking to people who interact with customers directly. 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. Keeping it simple is the best course.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

Utilize all the avenues for networking, including industry conferences, investor meetings, peer gatherings, and local civic organizations, to make your presence and value known. Define key metrics to measure progress and success. Use comparable metrics for managing team member results.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Create a written plan, with target milestones and metrics. Once you have achieved some success as an idea person who has implemented a business, you can broaden your positive impact by mentoring and coaching other aspiring entrepreneurs, supporting worthy causes, writing a book, and speaking at leadership conferences.

Ideas

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2022

A strong vision and deep insight may get your business off the ground, but long-term success requires constant data analysis, metrics, and attention to your customer feedback. Balance of passion with reality and customer feedback. If tracking the market and reality checking are not your thing, you may need a partner who can fill that gap.

Mentor

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2021

In fact, many of the same venues, such as industry conferences, entrepreneur forums and local business organizations are useful for both. Jointly define major milestones and key metrics for the startup. Seek input from seasoned investors and peers. Network to find co-founders just as you network to find investors.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

It’s human nature to prioritize the metrics that get measured, so the simple act of keeping track is often enough to have a significant positive impact. I suggest you try to figure out the 3-5 key metrics that are used to judge the health of companies in your industry, and keep track of these somewhere in your scorecard.

.Net

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Being an entrepreneur is about, “The journey through the ‘NO’ to get to the YES’ ” said by Ryan Caldbeck, CEO of CircleUp , on a panel at the Connections Conference in Indianapolis. There are a sea of writeboard walls with rainbow scribbles of metrics and brainstorms. DeveloperTown in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Startup

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I'm working quite a bit with startups who are leveraging social media, but I'm finding it hard to predict success and metrics. And how can an early stage company think about social media relative to important startup metrics (see [link] )? I'm sure that you had to think about that at Google and United Online. How did you do that?

Product

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2015

In fact, many of the same venues, such as industry conferences, entrepreneur forums and local business organizations are useful for both. Jointly define major milestones and key metrics for the startup. Seek input from seasoned investors and peers. Network to find co-founders just as you network to find investors.

Startup

Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

MBO is very metrics driven, and their shareholder reports are dense with detailed, disciplined reporting that remind you that Rick is former Naval officer. They have periodic conference calls with groups of users. Shortly after the call, I turned down a very generous offer to by my MBO stock. This is a company for the long haul.

Customer

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2023

In fact, many of the same venues, such as industry conferences, entrepreneur forums and local business organizations are useful for both. Jointly define major milestones and key metrics for the startup. Seek input from seasoned investors and peers. Network to find co-founders just as you network to find investors.

Startup

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I just went out to a VC conference out in New York, and what I'll say is -- it was just too damn easy. There were companies at the VC conference starving for money, but I think we could have raised $20M like nothing. But, we're not focused on an exit--we're focused on profitability, which is a key metric for management.

Startup

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 9, 2012

It also lists thousands of scientific conferences across the world to make it easy for researchers to stay informed, engaged and involved. The network boasts of millions of free and ready to use online publications from the right sources for all the members of one’s own work community according to ResearchGate. 2 million Researchers On site.

Social Network

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Siemer & Associates runs its annual conference next week to delve into the same topics. For a similar company, with the same metrics and stage, valuations had been tiny. What''s the current environment for M&A and IPOs, in general? David Siemer: I''ll start with IPOs, something we don''t here.

Southern California

Tech.Co

APRIL 30, 2018

The freight shipment marketplace will match shipper and driver, book loads, optimize routes, track metrics, and manage payments. At the Collision conference, in partnership with the Arlington Economic Development , these startups will showcase their latest technology aimed at improving our lives and streamlining the most arduous of tasks.

Startup

LATechDigest

JANUARY 27, 2020

Santa Monica-based talent management software firm Cornerstone OnDemand announced the launch of its suite of people analytics products at its annual Convergence Conference. Cornerstone Planning.

Cornerstone OnDemand

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In addition to relationships, today’s clients want to see you and your expertise on videos online, industry conferences, and social media to feel the trust for differentiation. To check your return on marketing investment, you need to define metrics and a formal process to evaluate progress and cost tradeoffs.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Adopt a project-based revenue model with metrics. You need to use the modern vehicles for promotion and relationship building, including a professional web site, social media, and industry conferences to show your expertise, credentials, and connections. Use social media for more visibility.

Social Media

LATechDigest

MAY 12, 2016

Santa Monica-based talent management software firm Cornerstone OnDemand announced the launch of its suite of people analytics products at its annual Convergence Conference. Cornerstone Planning.

Cornerstone OnDemand

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

People attending marquee conferences with rock bands, prominent speakers, Gartner Group prognosticators and lots of other happy customers. Create company measures for success that go beyond financial metrics. You manage what you measure so be careful about having too narrowly defined of performance metrics.

Marketing

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money.

Venture Capital

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Of the ones I have been to recently, the Nantucket Conference has been my favorite. It's a great talk. It's a great talk.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Kai taught me that the key metric to whether a sales process is going well is “engagement.” I tried it, it worked incredibly well and meeting with people (in person, in a web conference or on the phone) is ALWAYS better for you to understand their buyer needs and them to better understand you.

Funding