Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Of course, nothing is totally free, and I have heard the horror stories of relatively small companies finding thirty or more employees spending most of their time scanning and using social media for promotions, or engaging high-priced consultants who never seem to be able to show any real return for all of their efforts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2018

New and better technology is becoming available every day to present dashboards and metrics to show how well processes and empowerment are working, assess workload backlogs, and capture customer feedback and satisfaction. Utilize technology and tools for collaboration and sharing. Things that are not measured cannot be managed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Of course it happens all the time?—?especially If your metric move immediate up-and-to-the-right? For starters, the incoming CEO will demand between 4–6% of the company so shareholders will immediately face dilution. Well, once people get on boards it’s pretty tough ego-wise to convince them to step off. But it’s quite rare.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

Social media demands two-way communication, rather than outbound only. Define relevant metrics and measure. Of course, if you found this blog though your own initiative, I have to give you credit for being ahead of the pack. Don’t mix your personal and business profiles or messages. Read everything you can about viral marketing.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

He met with the editors of the three Mac magazines that his customers read and showed them metrics that confirmed that SuperMac's boards were the fastest on the market. "I Number two (was) to create end-user demand and drive it into our sales channel. I highly recommend Steve's How To Build A Startup online courses.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

If you look at the structure of the travel industry above – of course we know that the hotel industry is fragmented while the airline industry is reasonable consolidated. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. If you’re not successful then who cares.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

They suffered in trying to live up to public perceptions and the demands to continue their successes. Of course that’s true. In both cases the biopics portray suffering souls who find extreme and sudden success that casts them into the public eye in a way that they weren’t prepared for. Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Social media demands two-way communication, rather than outbound only. Define relevant metrics and measure. Of course, if you found this blog though your own initiative, I have to give you credit for being ahead of the pack. Don’t mix your personal and business profiles or messages. Read everything you can about viral marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

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 of course there are MUCH more sophisticated financial tools than either of these, but PEG is a short-hand many people use]. Investors value growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

Of course, I understand and don’t condone bad actors who get greedy, and exploit ways to unjustly squeeze customers and employees. Investors look for sales at full price, to people you don’t know, to validate demand, price, and margin. The best business models benefit social needs as well as business needs.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2018

The impact can be seen in the skills gap — the San Francisco Bay Area has the largest skills gap among the locations covered by LinkedIn’s report, meaning that supply isn’t keeping up with demand. The Bay Area is holding strong population-wise, but that isn’t the only metric to consider. Source: LinkedIn.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

Social media demands two-way communication, rather than outbound only. Define relevant metrics and measure. Of course, if you found this blog though your own initiative, I have to give you credit for being ahead of the pack. Don’t mix your personal and business profiles or messages. Read everything you can about viral marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

Well, obviously if you knew that in advance it would be big of course that would be true. And of course there are always outliers. Another firm we saw tried to raise $15 million at a $60 million pre-money with similar metrics. Prices have definitely gone up in 2011 as depicted in the anecdotal chart below.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2010

Social media demands two-way communication, rather than outbound only. Define relevant metrics and measure. Of course, if you found this blog though your own initiative, I have to give you credit for being ahead of the pack. Don’t mix your personal and business profiles and messages. Start social networking with peers.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

I think that the market was, however, hotter two years ago, when companies were buying more aggressively, and there was lots of pent-up demand. For a similar company, with the same metrics and stage, valuations had been tiny. We were involved in the Gradient X deal, and that was a nice one. We don''t worry about that anymore.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

Many collectors, whose primary goal was to complete their collections, were content to have an Excellent or even a Very Good card, which ensured broader demand for lesser grade cards. The advent of investors and grading services drove up the demand for near-perfect cards while suppressing the value of all other cards.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 7, 2015

Of course, the number 1 reason for shifting to online retailing is the lower start-up costs. He further stressed his point that smart consumers have experienced a convenient shopping experience–through online tools, social media–and they will soon continue to demand for it.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2016

Less than a month ago, Snapchat opened custom on-demand geofilters to everyone. Of course, eventually, these filters will be ruined by marketers the same way everything else is. After your filter stops running, you’ll be able to see the results in the “metrics” tab of your account. It will tell you uses and views.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Content, of course, is the same!]. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm. Total raised: $129.0mm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2013

There is no single formula for how to stay healthy while starting and running an exciting but demanding new business, but here are a few suggestions, depending on your lifestyle: Stay fit and rested. Lead by example, of course, and encourage employees regularly to pursue a healthy lifestyle. Quarterly business reviews.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2011

There is no single formula for how to stay healthy while starting and running an exciting but demanding new business, but here are a few suggestions, depending on your lifestyle: Stay fit and rested. Lead by example, of course, and encourage employees regularly to pursue a healthy lifestyle. Quarterly business reviews.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2010

There is no single formula for how to stay healthy while starting and running an exciting but demanding new business, but here are a few suggestions, depending on your lifestyle: Stay fit and rested. Lead by example, of course, and encourage employees regularly to pursue a healthy lifestyle. Quarterly business reviews.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Oh, and of course I shoot all of my videos at the ThisWeekIn studios which are located in the Mahalo offices. EcoMom’s metrics improved throughout this process and that’s when I decided to invest. It could be a bubble or better balance of supply and demand. So Jason heard we were taping and swung by and crashed the end of show.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Not the successful companies themselves but the entire b t culture of swash-buckling startups who define themselves by hitting some magical $1 billion valuation number and the financiers who back them irrespective of metrics that justify it. For a fee, of course. 10 years from now people will be embarrassed to say unicorn.

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