Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

He offers over 50 guiding principles, distilled from his tenure at Amazon, to become a digital leader in today’s marketplace. Institute deep metrics measuring all aspects of the customer experience. Customer and competitive demands are rising across all sectors and experiences. Accept no excuses. Do what Amazon is doing.

Commerce 89

Commerce Artificial Inteligence Cloud Computing Platform 89

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

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. Managing business growth is more than metrics. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships.

Startup 108

Startup Sales Metrics Entrepreneur 108

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Online travel guide that is served up in-stream with restricted data size in the same was as Twitter. - Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia. Total raised: $16.0mm.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

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. Managing business growth is more than metrics. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships.

Startup 56

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 56

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

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. Managing business growth is more than metrics. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships.

Sales 96

Sales Metrics Startup Guide 96

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. We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments.

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2016

Stroh, which details the principles and metrics to follow for fostering innovation in any organization. Every entrepreneur, no matter how experienced, will benefit from a personal board of directors or advisors to guide them in facets of their business. Today they demand it or walk to competitors, who are not far away.

Startup 58

Startup Organization Demand Custom 58

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Includes content mobile guides, ie. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. It’s awesome. Foursquare.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2011

Metrics-Guided. Lean Approach. Model-Focused. Vision-Driven (You’re definitely going to need a strong vision when those sleepless nights, crying kids, and angry spouse enter the picture). He went on to explain a bit about the customer development model from Blanks: State business model assumptions.

Startup 86

Startup Santa Monica Los Angeles Custom Development 86

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs. So with operations in four key cities and recurring revenue now firmly above $10 million per year and with 10,000+ customers we realized that we needed a proper CFO to guide our growth.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Custom Customer 286

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

For example, if you’re going to build a travel planning website (as many, many startup entrepreneurs do) your basic research would be: How much do people spend on travel books / guides today? The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. And how much do others providers make?

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

There were no price guides, standardized rating systems or baseball card stores. 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. There were very few card dealers and no card investors.

Pricing 138

Pricing Advertising Marketing Startup 138

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2016

Less than a month ago, Snapchat opened custom on-demand geofilters to everyone. Here’s a guide on how to upload and create your own filter. After your filter stops running, you’ll be able to see the results in the “metrics” tab of your account. VaynerMedia used it for a number of event-based activations. Now, anyone can do it.

Custom 40

Custom Customer Snapchat Design 40