SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. But often the result of a Founder hiring a developer or lead developer or even a VP engineering is a gap created between the founders and the developers. How will we find and interview developers?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Implement metrics and set objectives for every organization. Processes and organizations that have no objectives will produce less and less over time as they attempt to remove risk and potential problems. Spend real time on people development and succession planning. You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In his classic book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. Leadership brand development. Focus on talent and people growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It does require leadership at all levels of the organization to find shared values, set clear expectations, attract and develop talent, accelerate execution of a winning strategy, and generate a feeling of alignment, togetherness, and engagement every day. It’s about turning personal values into repeatable behaviors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

How our VC Firms Like Ours Organizing to Meet the Challenges? Seksom most recently ran Corporate Development & Strategy for Twitter so he knows a thing or two about exits to corporates and whether he funds a startup or not I suspect many will get value from building a relationship with him for his expertise. just to name a few!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

It’s true that gifted visionaries bring many good things to an organization, including big picture ideas, seeing around corners, and a hunter mentality. This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together. Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2022

Make sure you are fostering people development to their full potential, for them and for your business. I still find many organizations that think of internal change in terms of months and years, or even worse, suffer from “analysis paralysis,” or studying a problem forever. Adopt some key metrics to measure your change agility.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers. Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics.

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Berkonomics

MAY 5, 2016

Another leadership development bit? A leader who does not periodically engage others in strategic thinking is missing the critical step in focusing the organization toward achievement of goals and the vision. You should be involved in development and review of the tactics to achieve those strategies you’ve mutually created.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

It’s true that gifted visionaries bring many good things to an organization, including big picture ideas, seeing around corners, and a hunter mentality. This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together. Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Develop a personal story as a visionary and learner. Your story should include childhood initiatives, industry organization leadership roles, and online influencer organizations that you support. Founders who present themselves as a lone entrepreneur may develop an innovative solution, but building a business requires a team.

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Berkonomics

MAY 20, 2021

Enterprise time, as opposed to personal time management, is the sum total of resources available to a company expressed in terms of time – time to develop, to debug, to produce, to deploy, to respond to issues, and to make changes in plans that are not working. The relationship between time and money. And yet another way to make that mistake.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

It starts at the top with the founder and CEO, but has to extend quickly to the bottom of the organization. Every organization needs to have specific mechanisms in place to facilitate change, including regular effective communication, reward systems that reinforce desired change behavior, and accountability for results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2020

Implement metrics and set objectives for every organization. Processes and organizations that have no objectives will produce less and less over time as they attempt to remove risk and potential problems. Spend real time on people development and succession planning. You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This work requires market feedback, managing trials, and working with the sales team as well as developers. Great people leadership and communication skills are critical here, as well as managing an organization. Some people are very good as defining metrics, roll-out programs, and reward systems for marketing and sales programs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2023

The current surge of working remotely, driven by the pandemic and international freelancing, has challenged our thinking on collaboration and leadership, both within teams and outside, to other organizations. Another important driver of meaning at work is how the work relates to your career or personal development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

In his classic book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. Leadership brand development. Focus on talent and people growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Further, based on results from the Sierra-Cedar HR Systems Survey , businesses that use data and tools in their people management, rather than traditional manual processes, see a 79% higher return than other organizations, suggesting the time is ripe for relying on data and analytics. Use data analysis and metrics to measure for results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Radhika teaches entrepreneurship and innovation, and advises organizations around the world on how to build radical products that create a fundamental change instead of optimizing the status quo. Hypermetricemia – metrics for everything. Now is the time to develop a new mindset and stick to it.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

If you do build the MVP and show it to them, they will ask you about your metrics. They really want metrics, not a product. The real question you should be asking is "When I've built this product and show you the following metrics, would you invest?" Investors demand more than that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2023

I’m not suggesting that you model your startup after the complex corporate organizations you hated in your last job, but there are at least eight key functions and activities that every investor expects to find in a startup proposal with any real potential to change the world. Solution development and delivery.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

I was recently asked by an organization, "Tony, what topics can you cover?" 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Many entrepreneurs never get past their first-stage focus on their innovative product, to scaling the business globally, organizing a structure to handle thousands of employees, and concentrating their focus “on the business” rather than working “in the business.” Switch your focus from product development to sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2023

Transforming your organization for the new global economy requires perseverance and long-term thinking. Don’t fail to develop the proper comprehensive metrics for assessing how you and any partners are doing in terms of value creation. Not having a means to measure holistic impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

If you want to build and maintain a creative culture in your organization, you need to make sure your operation is guided by these seven critical strategies: Fuel passion. To promote passion, you need to develop a sense of purpose, promote collaboration, and have fun. With a team full of passion, you can accomplish just about anything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2023

These must be managed by metrics to allow you to gauge progress, recognize successes, and keep constituents motivated along the way. Even experienced business owners can’t keep all the requirements for starting or growing a business in their head, so organizing it on paper is critical to making it consistent and complete.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

This means organizations will require new and different external research to understand what tools they must provide in order to help their members make progress. This data is playing an increasingly important role in strategic planning and product development. Members Hire Associations, Members Fire Associations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Innovative technologies require iterative development, while other ideas are primarily marketing and financial. You may be comfortable driving your future based on vision and emotion, or have long been a stickler for details and metrics. Some people love starting companies, while others enjoy scaling them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

That keeps people from pushing themselves to develop the kind of new solutions that will permanently change the business for the better, versus short-term band-aids. Every business team becomes inwardly- focused by default, comparing themselves only emotionally to others they know within the organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Sounds simple but in practice I promise you most organization fall into the latter trap. Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. Vanity metrics will make you feel good about site traffic of SEO over conversion rate or purchases of your product will get more attention than retention.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Measure progress through metrics on sales, revenue, and penetration. Look for more ways to demonstrate a competitive advantage, and partner with complementary organizations if you need strength in manufacturing, distribution, or customer support. Develop a mindset of improvement versus defense.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Sets goals and milestones, with metrics to track progress. They define metrics for each goal, and diligently track themselves against these metrics. Execute processes and metrics around customer requirements, loyalty, satisfaction, and service. Tie executive titles and organizations to business roles.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Now we’re getting organized. The structure combined the listing of the goal with a series of strategies and then tactics, each designed to support each other, each measurable and made public throughout the organization. Next we’ll look at the last major step in creating an OST plan for an entire organization. Positioning.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Learn how to successfully integrate the strategies and operations of merged organizations, implement the latest techniques, tools and metrics to improve performance, revitalize acquisitions that are not meeting expectations. Watson, former worldwide director of new platform development for Eastman Chemical. See [link] (more).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Michele Ruiz: BiasSync provides a solution for companies, state and federal agencies, school districts, and organizations to assess and manage unconscious bias in the workplace. You have to have at least fifty people in an organization, because the reason is we provide anonymized, aggregated data.

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