Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As a new business advisor and occasional investor, I get approached regularly by people who have a dream or a new business idea, and are looking for support and money to make it a reality. Thus, I’m more impressed with entrepreneurs who ask me to review their implementation plan, rather than listen again to their idea.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it! An empty textbox, demanding to be filled with a concise, compelling summary to impress potential employers is daunting. It can empower them to express their ideas more effectively and confidently, no matter what they’re writing. Everyone struggles with empty text boxes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2022

Many smart people I know fall into the category of “idea” people. You may never be at a loss for new ideas, and ways to broaden the appeal of your business. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

The idea is to build excellence in one area, and get the rest from the ecosystem. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric. Indeed these principles are good for all startups Connect ideas and networks from around the world. Develop new venture models for tougher ecosystems.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

Your favorite investor told you this was a bad idea. 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. I’m paranoid about the evaporation of revenue. Most importantly in ensures long-term success.

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Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2020

Entrepreneurs and startups are big believers in innovation, but sometimes they forget that innovation must be continual to assure long-term success, rather than the one big-bang idea that initiated their journey. Stroh, which details the principles and metrics to follow for fostering innovation in any organization. by Patrick J.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2023

Remote professionals also need to feel a sense of psychological safety, where they can make mistakes and trust they will not be punished, or offer ideas and trust they will not be laughed at. Make sure you know what is really happening, through metrics and feedback from others. Don’t ignore or hide your remote and hybrid workers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

Almost every entrepreneur and new business owner I mentor is certain that his/her idea has a very high probability of success, and all find it hard to believe that ninety percent of startups ultimately fail. You need the funding and support, but venture capitalists can be very demanding, and set high targets.

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Technical Review Case Study Mentor Software Review 131

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

27:45 Eric: The thing that is supposed to fail fast is your bad ideas, not your company. 48:30 Vanity metrics. 52:00 Actionable metrics. 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. 48:30 Vanity metrics. 52:00 Actionable metrics. Most people are working on failing ideas. 34:00 Imvu.

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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. Creative ideas are the outliers, and tend to be eliminated first, rather than evaluated fully.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2017

I can't imagine starting a service, like Airbnb, Uber, and other now famous marketplaces, and starting with zero users on either the supply or demand side. We did not start from scratch on that side, either. It's tremendously hard. I think we've got an advantage, to kickstart this, and move faster than they were in the early days.

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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. Creative ideas are the outliers, and tend to be eliminated first, rather than evaluated fully.

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Metrics Entrepreneur Demand Statistics 110

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Yet in my talks with these executives, they are unaware of the issues, or have no idea how to change processes at the rate of change today. They have to be energized and able to adapt as the market and competitors demand. Track competitors and influencers for trends and ideas. Traditional mission statements are not enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2019

In addition to quantifying the positives of the customer lifetime value metric, they address the mistakes that I see regularly in my business advisory service relative to assessing the value of customers and value, including the following: Failing to account for current customer status and stage.

Customer 85

Customer Custom Product Metrics 85

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. Creative ideas are the outliers, and tend to be eliminated first, rather than evaluated fully.

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Metrics Demand Statistics Sales 60

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

At Amazon, Jeff Bezos leads a relentless drive to invent dramatic new ways to delight customers, not waiting for customer demands or competitors to show the way. Contrary to popular belief, I’m convinced that business success is more of function of the right people, rather than the right idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2014

I see entrepreneurs every day who are trying to change the world with a new idea, and startups that are trying to survive their hyper-growth phase by changing processes to meet demand. Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. Change is hard.

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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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InfoChachkie

JUNE 2, 2014

Warning: Kelsey''s idea will make you ask yourself, "Why didn''t I think of that?". Curious to learn more about Kelsey''s seemingly obvious, yet logistically challenging idea, I interviewed her during a rare break in her hectic schedule. We keep our eye on a handful of metrics, but we’re focused on customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2013

I see entrepreneurs every day who are trying to change the world with a new idea, and startups that are trying to survive their hyper-growth phase by changing processes to meet demand. Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. Change is hard.

Startup 101

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

He lays out very plainly his own experiences on both sides of this equation, and I particularly enjoyed his summary startup roadmap of twenty-one steps to success, which add real content to the eight that I recommend to every entrepreneur: Select an idea you can clearly communicate in thirty seconds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2016

Entrepreneurs and startups are big believers in innovation, but sometimes they forget that innovation must be continual to assure long-term success, rather than the one big-bang idea that initiated their journey. Stroh, which details the principles and metrics to follow for fostering innovation in any organization. by Patrick J.

Startup 58

Startup Organization Demand Customer 58

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

Here are some key ideas to get you started: It all starts with the right people on your team. It must be written down, with measurable team objectives, validated by metrics and compared against competition. The bar is being raised, so every entrepreneur needs new initiatives just to stay in the ballgame.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

If you use IntelliJ IDEA , you can have it remind you to use Enum{Set,Map} with inspections: Analyze - Run inspection by name - "Set replaceable with EnumSet" or "Map replaceable with EnumMap".or. Given the popularity of streams, optimizing this method is a good idea! Instead, try to remember these classes for next time.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

While Google and Facebook will buy “acquihires” (at least as of Dec 2011), many acquirers hate the idea of buying companies that aren’t profitable. As I like to say, “If you’re really on to an enormous idea then other people in the market are going to spot that and want to compete with you. Internet scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As the idea went from innovating on software & systems to launching a company to rolling it out in the field brought on Rahul Gandhi as his co-founder to physically launch the company. and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.”

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Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

So while it started more about finding solutions to get him driving cars more or logging airline miles he also focuses on big, industry-changing ideas. And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Scott has this obsession. It’s awesome. Foursquare.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

socalTECH

JULY 8, 2009

Steve Goldman: Ace Metrix is actually the first, on-demand measurement service of TV advertising effectiveness. All the calculations are done automatically, and everything is delivered online, and on-demand for our Ace Analyzer. I always yearned for better metrics to allow our customers to make better decisions.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product.

Startup 150

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

As noted in Small Ideas, Big Benefits , Capital Cards was an exceptional experience for both me and my brother-in-law, as it allowed us to hone our business skills, while competing with people who were more than twice our age. as well as old-world pricing, such as cost-per-thousand views, which was based upon print advertising metrics.

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Pricing Advertising Marketing Startup 138

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 7, 2015

If you dread the 8-5 working hours, your friends will always pop up the idea of giving you career tips at home which you can easily start. 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. If you aren’t a designer yourself or well versed in Photoshop or Illustrator, it’s a good idea to have someone who is for this part of it. After your filter stops running, you’ll be able to see the results in the “metrics” tab of your account.

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Customer Custom Snapchat Design 40

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. 10 years from now people will be embarrassed to say unicorn. At least for now.

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