Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Major innovation, with major payback, requires real change, addresses a major pain point, and hits a large customer segment who can pay. Even in this era of a pervasive Internet, your customers won’t find even the best new solutions by default. For example, smart entrepreneurs look for recognizable patterns in disconnected domains.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2023

I agree with the classic book by Ros Taylor, “ Creativity at Work: Supercharge Your Brain and Make Your Ideas Stick ,” which outlines some key psychological impediments to creative business thinking and change: Just use the data metrics. Even good decisions today will require adjustments as the environment or customers change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

How good are you and everyone on your team at proactively scanning the environment for opportunities, emerging trends, and customer feedback? Imbue customer change focus. Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t survive.

Startup 116

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2020

I agree with the classic book by Ros Taylor, “ Creativity at Work: Supercharge Your Brain and Make Your Ideas Stick ,” which outlines some key psychological impediments to creative business thinking and change: Just use the data metrics. Even good decisions today will require adjustments as the environment or customers change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

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. Use data analysis and metrics to measure for results. Working on the wrong problem or assumption.

Tool 121

Tool Statistics Entrepreneur Metrics 121

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want. Analytics will soon drive nearly all business decisions for any company that wants to remain relevant to its customers. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Crowdsource: putting your audience to work beyond customers.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Many of the factors are not obvious and include building mystery to drive margin, why boring B2B companies often win but are challenging in other ways, how bootstrapping wins, integrating metrics from the start and many other similar lessons. What is our lifetime customer value and how can we drive that up?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2019

How good are you and everyone on your team at proactively scanning the environment for opportunities, emerging trends, and customer feedback? Imbue customer change focus. Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t survive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want. Analytics will soon drive nearly all business decisions for any company that wants to remain relevant to its customers. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Crowdsource: putting your audience to work beyond customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2014

I agree with the book by Ros Taylor, “ Creativity at Work: Supercharge Your Brain and Make Your Ideas Stick ,” which outlines some key psychological impediments to creative business thinking and change: Just use the data metrics. Sales people tend to remember the latest product when selling to clients, not the one best for that customer.

Entrepreneur 113

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want. Analytics will soon drive nearly all business decisions for any company that wants to remain relevant to its customers. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Crowdsource: putting your audience to work beyond customers.

Startup 55

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 55

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want. Analytics will soon drive nearly all business decisions for any company that wants to remain relevant to its customers. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Crowdsource: putting your audience to work beyond customers.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 99

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2017

How good are you and everyone on your team at proactively scanning the environment for opportunities, emerging trends, and customer feedback? Imbue customer change focus. Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t survive.

Startup 56

Startup Training Statistics Summary 56

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2014

How good are you and everyone on your team at proactively scanning the environment for opportunities, emerging trends, and customer feedback? Imbue customer change focus. Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t survive.

Entrepreneur 110

Entrepreneur Startup Training Statistics 110

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2013

I agree with the new book by Ros Taylor, “ Creativity at Work: Supercharge Your Brain and Make Your Ideas Stick ,” which outlines some key psychological impediments to creative business thinking and change: Just use the data metrics. Sales people tend to remember the latest product when selling to clients, not the one best for that customer.

Metrics 110

Metrics Entrepreneur Demand Statistics 110

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2017

Statistics show that the failure rate for new businesses within the first four years is fifty percent or greater, even with companies that have a large startup budget. Having a website won’t help if customers can’t find it. Use social media to actively engage with your customers. Customer service is not just fixing problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2016

I agree with the classic book by Ros Taylor, “ Creativity at Work: Supercharge Your Brain and Make Your Ideas Stick ,” which outlines some key psychological impediments to creative business thinking and change: Just use the data metrics. Even good decisions today will require adjustments as the environment or customers change.

Metrics 60

Metrics Demand Statistics Sales 60

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 29, 2014

Using transactional business data like simple website traffic, sales metrics, social interactions, ad conversions, and employee performance statistics, Freshplum helps firms forecast demand, optimize the timing of supply shipments, and cut prizes among others resulting into revenue growth. Know your customer’s preferences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2018

Unfortunately, most of the entrepreneurs who contact me for guidance only seem to work on strategic issues when they are in a crisis, such as losing a major distributor or being swamped with customer complaints. Define metrics to assess roll-out progress and value. It’s a bit late when strategy becomes operational.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

How good are you and everyone on your team at proactively scanning the environment for opportunities, emerging trends, and customer feedback? Imbue customer change focus. Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t survive.

Startup 93

Startup Training Statistics Summary 93

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Yet, according to statistics from the Small Business Association (SBA), over half of new businesses offer something else - personal professional services, including consulting, business coaching, and advisory services. Flexible business models, including value-based pricing, bundling, and custom proposals are the places to begin.

Social Media 56

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

How good are you and everyone on your team at proactively scanning the environment for opportunities, emerging trends, and customer feedback? Imbue customer change focus. Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t succeed.

Startup 94

Startup Marketing Training Statistics 94

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2017

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. Use data analysis and metrics to measure for results. Working on the wrong problem or assumption.

Tool 53

Tool Entrepreneur Statistics Metrics 53

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To help companies make informed business decisions, we are building statistical models that show information at higher-than-the-platform level. We are also building better segments of customer profiles that help the clients understand who their core audience is, but also helps us build predictive audiences for finding new people.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Q: Tell us about your customers/users …. We want hard data and metrics – we want proof. A: Huge problem causing lots of pain for customers. The flip side to the hand wavers are the compulsive footnoters who provide every statistic available or lengthy background information. with actual data and metrics.

Tips 70

Tips Startup Statistics Metrics 70

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2010

How good are you and everyone on your team at proactively scanning the environment for opportunities, emerging trends, and customer feedback? Imbue customer change focus. Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t succeed.

Startup 78

Startup Training Statistics Summary 78

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2017

When we looked at their loss numbers, we knew the type of statistical analysis we were doing could solve that problem, too, which is why we started the company. When you look at the metrics, in some cases, the rules-based systems will have 200 to 300 to 1 false positive rates. Thanks, and good luck! READ MORE>>.

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Frank Addante

MAY 18, 2016

Details can come in the form of concrete deliverables, metrics, and results. A Stanford research study showed that statistics alone have a retention rate of 5-10%, but when coupled with anecdotes, the retention rate rises to 65-70%. In storytelling, the details are the vehicle for the larger message. What does that even mean?

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Frank Addante

MAY 18, 2016

Details can come in the form of concrete deliverables, metrics, and results. A Stanford research study showed that statistics alone have a retention rate of 5-10%, but when coupled with anecdotes, the retention rate rises to 65-70%. In storytelling, the details are the vehicle for the larger message. What does that even mean?

Company 40

Company Companies Advertising Startup 40

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

introNetworks is still going strong and has some of the biggest customers in the world, like NASA and McCann World Group. We're working on how quickly we can provision servers, and what those metrics are, and it's been fantastic. You have been working on introNetworks, why you decided to create new the service?

Social Media 203

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