SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

I'm going to be looking at aspects like: Things to consider before building your MVP Features often overlooked when documenting an MVP for developers Understanding important metrics you want to measure Risks and challenges in developing an MVP. Have you conducted Problem, Solution and Feature Interviews with customers?

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CTO Coach Metrics Framework Software Development 219

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

.&# When I talk to people about sales I often describe the sales process as a series of hurdles (objections) that are put up to avoid making a purchase and your responsibility is to work through these common objections with your customer. In the evangelical phase you’re working through these with customers on the fly.

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Sales Startup Training Pricing 289

TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Even when they have talked to multiple developers or development firms, we’re often the first to ask basic questions like “Who are your customers?” ” Of course, it’s more complicated than just checking boxes on a question list. Who are the customers? What are your key Startup Metrics ?

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Develop Development Technical Review SEO 520

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

But it will be patiently deployed, waiting for a cohort of founders who aren’t artificially clinging to 2021 valuation metrics. Of course our execution against the strategy has had to change but the strategy has remained constant. discipline & focus. In 2009 we could take a long time to review a deal.

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Venture Capital Marketing Technical Review Seed Funding 416

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Oh, and if you didn’t guess, the title, “if you don’t have a discrete hypothesis you are incapable of failing” is, of course, an Eric Ries quote. 48:30 Vanity metrics. 52:00 Actionable metrics. 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. There are many in this episode.

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Social Media Startup Metrics Media 301

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Data, however, removes guesswork, biases, and anecdotal reasoning that can throw decision efforts off course. It’s the same for customers and products, where analytics have long proven their value. Efficiency in the workplace is the time it takes to do something, but it can ignore work quality and customer impact.

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Metrics Tool Statistics Entrepreneur 98

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

If your culture rewards those who seek the truth, your team will be prone to objectively identifying tactical course corrections. Obsess About Customers, Not Colleagues Or Competitors. “We We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. You can be customer-focused or competitor-focused.

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Tips Startup Framework Customer 279

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Proof of any business model starts with a finished product or solution, sold to a new customer for full price, with high satisfaction for the value received. Of course, that has be a repeatable event, with enough revenue to sustain the business. Customer support is more than handling exceptions. Marty Zwilling

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you had huge customer growth but just didn’t focus on revenue that’s a different story. So while the simplest way that people often evaluate stocks is by P/E ratios (price-to-earnings), one also needs to look at other metrics such as the PEG (price-to-earnings-growth). [of ” Harsh, but reality.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Steve's first question was, “Who are our customers?" I) took the 300 latest cards, personally wrote a questionnaire and called 300 customers. SuperMac's main customer base were color desktop professionals. All of a sudden I now had customers telling what market, how to reach them and what applications are important.

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Marketing Startup Sales Customer 271

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2021

Of course, no business wants to be the next Blockbuster , which kept charging straight ahead despite subtle clues that the Internet was changing everything. Here are some key strategies that I recommend to prompt you when changes to your business may be required: Look for a changing customer sense of value.

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Marketing Social Media Metrics Customer 162

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Creating metrics. Finding your “teacher customer,&# and much more. Farming out tasks beyond your core, and of course, much more. Where to find customers that buy. New forms of metrics for your business. Purchase the complete collection of all eight books with 20% discount by clicking HERE. STARTING UP!

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eBook Press Metrics Startup 168

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

As a business consultant and angel investor, I often ask for your own assessment of marketing ROI , or customer acquisition cost (CAC). Leaders and investors need to know if you have and are tapping into your key sources of relevant data, including web analytics, sales management data, and customer relationship management (CRM) software.

Customer 100

Customer Custom Acquisition Technical Review 100

Berkonomics

JUNE 30, 2022

As a leader, you set the goals, establish the strategies and tactics to get there (with help from others of course) and sell the dream to all your stakeholders. And that includes potential customers as well as executives and employees. Can unmanaged growth ever happen? But not often.

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Education Metrics Course Resource 156

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Of course, that means a mindset willing to give up much more equity, and taking on a whole new level of risk. Explosive growth to an enterprise normally requires a scalable sales model, a well-documented process with incentives, training, and metrics for tracking and management. Isolate marketing from sales for maximum customer focus.

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Startup Course Sales Entrepreneur 151

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2021

Proof of any business model starts with a finished product or solution, sold to a new customer for full price, with high satisfaction for the value received. Of course, that has be a repeatable event, with enough revenue to sustain the business. Customer support is more than handling exceptions. Marty Zwilling.

Sales 165

Sales Customer Custom Social Media 165

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2021

Every entrepreneur’s first priority should be the alignment of interests across the range of constituents required for success – partners, investors, customers, vendors, and employees. Make sure the inspiration that launched your vision isn’t lost in the course of a pivot or market change. Realign all elements of the plan.

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Social Media Startup Framework Course 143

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2020

With interactive social media and video everywhere, everyone needs to feel they have a relationship with their leaders, and every brand needs leader personification for customers to relate. Interact with employees and customers on a regular basis. Never be too busy to talk to real customers. Keeping it simple is the best course.

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Social Media Metrics Customer Custom 128

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. Create an action plan with metrics. You spend the months influencing the influencers.

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Social Media Framework Media Metrics 135

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2021

Of course, these must always be balanced with winning business practices for maximum value. Focus on customers and people over profits and ego. Especially in these modern times, both your customers and your team are looking for personal relationships to incent their engagement and loyalty. billion buyout.

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Customer Custom Metrics Ideas 157

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

Set up training courses that highlight agility, and adopt agile working practices. It’s important to note slippage indicators, including less internal feedback on requirements to fight competitors, and more focus inward than outward on customers needs and trends.

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Metrics Training Satisfaction IBM 122

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Of course, it takes both short and long-term focus to survive, but I see too many businesses fall into some common product maladies, which ultimately keep them from becoming a unicorn, or achieving the level of disruptive change they initially envisioned. Hypermetricemia – metrics for everything.

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Metrics Product Yahoo Examples 133

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. Jovian's platform allows us to process and analyze campaigns in-flight, and also provide in-flight course corrections for marketers. Wes Nichols: MarketShare is an analytics company.

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Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Over 600,000 new businesses were created in the last year, or over one per minute of every day.

Tips 161

Tips Startup Social Media News 161

Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2016

As a leader, you set the goals, establish the strategies and tactics to get there (with help from others of course) and sell the dream to all of your stakeholders. And that includes potential customers as well as executives and employees. But not often. More often, you (the leader) set the goal and.

Education 120

Education Metrics Course Resource 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Great marketing is required to generate revenue and grow every business, especially new businesses which have no brand recognition nor loyal customer base. Yet, as a business consultant, I still find many of you business leaders relying primarily on your technology, word-of-mouth , or location to attract necessary customers.

Marketing 133

Marketing Customer Custom Outsource Development 133

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Live Shopping is an integral part of the “social commerce” phenomenon – a general term for ecommerce experiences within which customers don’t even have to leave social media platforms to buy items – but other tech companies like Meta, as well as TikTok, have struggled with it in the US and Europe so far.

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Social Media Startup Commerce News 132

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308

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. Create an action plan with metrics. You spend the months influencing the influencers.

Social Media 102

Social Media Media Product Metrics 102

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2021

Of course, experiences and failures are the best teachers, but I find that learning from other people’s experiences is a much faster and less painful approach. You continually get frustrated with your team members, customers, vendors, and partners. It’s very frustrating. All the constituents have their own agenda.

Entrepreneur 174

Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Satisfaction Social Media 174

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I love the enthusiasm, the boundless energy and the sense of possibility that comes from having an idea that hasn’t yet been beat up in the marketplace of competing ideas, customer contracts, VC skepticism, jaded journalists or fickle consumers who are on the The New, New Thing. The full financial details and metrics were in the deck.

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Metrics Startup Sales 150

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A broken process or a subtle quality issue can generate a flood of customer satisfaction problems, cost overruns, and loss of market share. Of course, this all has to start with you having the confidence and conviction that there is at least one solution to every problem, and that you can find it. Then pick the best one.

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Satisfaction Mentor Study Startup 152

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2013

Of course, for a price, there are many marketing organizations and gurus willing to come to your aid. Continue building the relationship to nurture them into paying customers. Focus your resources to convert prospects to customers. Nurture customers and influencers into real fans. Are your customers coming fast enough?

Sales 105

Sales Startup Metrics Customer 105

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

With interactive social media and video everywhere, everyone needs to feel they have a relationship with their leaders, and every brand needs leader personification for customers to relate. Interact with employees and customers on a regular basis. Never be too busy to talk to real customers. Keeping it simple is the best course.

Social Media 99

Social Media Metrics Customer Custom 99

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

We have customers from so many different industries like software, financial services, healthcare, and media. We could also spend time talking with customers rather than updating investors. Within six months we launched with a minimum feature set that a few customers were willing to pay for.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2018

With interactive social media and video everywhere, everyone needs to feel they have a relationship with their leaders, and every brand needs leader personification for customers to relate. Interact with employees and customers on a regular basis. Never be too busy to talk to real customers. Keeping it simple is the best course.

Social Media 96

Social Media Metrics Customer Custom 96