Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Some chaos is normal in every new business, but many wait far too long before they install metrics based on “best practices,” and fail to attack obvious bottlenecks with a vengeance. People with the wrong tools or no training. It’s no secret that some people are more productive than others, due to skills, training, or commitment.

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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. That means making sure you are utilizing coaching and mentoring, as well as training to keep up with changes in technology and the marketplace. Adopt some key metrics to measure your change agility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training. For starters, the whole team needs to be constantly trained and encouraged to develop their skills. Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Switch your attention from product development to sales. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Enhancing Front-End Product Search We also developed a front-end search tool that revolutionized the way users search for products. Moreover, LLMs come equipped with an extensive knowledge base derived from the vast amounts of data they've been trained on. Strive for a balanced outcome.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2020

That means making sure the right people are hired, trained, and in the right place at the right time. Implement metrics and set objectives for every organization. This is also the time for business development focus, related social causes, and exploring common ground (coopetition initiatives) with competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2023

In all cases, don’t skip the basic training. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. Don’t stand still.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2021

It’s easy for an entrepreneur or an employee to convince themselves that they would have been successful if they had more time, received more funding, or had the proper training to do the job. Usually the real culprit is procrastination, lack of focus, or low productivity and lack of metrics. Wait and hope for a miracle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

Solution development and delivery. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs. Show that you have a process to hire, fire, and train others as required. For progress and success assessment, each of these needs some metrics defined, a training plan, and responsibility assignments within your team.

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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

AUGUST 21, 2021

Switch your focus from product development to sales. Explosive growth to an enterprise normally requires a scalable sales model, a well-documented process with incentives, training, and metrics for tracking and management. In my experience, less than half of founding entrepreneurs even aspire to stay and scale their company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

For a hands-on guide in developing data-driven people strategies, I found some practical techniques in the classic book, “ The Data Driven Leader ,” by Jenny Dearborn and David Swanson. Use data analysis and metrics to measure for results. Bigger organizations should invest in the new “big data” tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In all cases, don’t skip the basic training. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. Don’t stand still.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Measure progress through metrics on sales, revenue, and penetration. I recommend the servant leadership style of management, rather than command and control, to make sure teams have the tools and training they need, as well as an appreciation for the mission. Develop a mindset of improvement versus defense.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

As a tech startup grows it needs to develop more process & management if it is to scale. But to effectively scale a sales team you need to codify it, train your sales teams, monitor results, refine your messages and then refine the training / rollout to your teams. I call this “arming & aiming&# your salesforce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The challenge is to recognize the people with the right traits to get results, and to train yourself to work on the right things. Sets goals and milestones, with metrics to track progress. They define metrics for each goal, and diligently track themselves against these metrics.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We have developed a tool that takes scientific, validated methodologies from academia, and use that to assess unconscious bias around race, gender, age, and other personality attributes, in the workplace. Why that it is important, is the metrics associated with this is are how scalable it is.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

On tough issues, I recommend the use of brainstorming with colleagues, to expand your efforts, and develop a half-dozen alternatives. Make sure that you implement a metric with each solution, to prevent the issue from recurring, and check for side effects and follow-on side effects. Then pick the best one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2019

Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training. For starters, the whole team needs to be constantly trained and encouraged to develop their skills. Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics.

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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. It’s your job as a leader to be the model high performer, quantify the team view with metrics, and expand awareness to the best outside competition and new tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Business risks are not just development risks. Training and coaching. Once a new product is launched, a key metric is the ratio of new product sales to overall sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

The keys to sustainable success require you to retain that sense of urgency, focus, and vigilance after the launch that you felt during the development and early funding stages. For a successful launch and scalable growth, they need to establish many checkpoints, with metrics to assess their progress and alignment with the vision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Switch your attention from product development to sales. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Business risks are not just development risks. Training and coaching. Set milestones and meet them. Ownership. Value creation. Observe and measure. Net result and reward.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Business risks are not just development risks. Training and coaching. Once a new product is launched, a key metric is the ratio of new product sales to overall sales.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. We knew there’s a better personal training experience to be had, so we set out to create one. We just found this hole in the fitness industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2016

As the business grows, it pays to learn how to use automated financial tools, and review the key financial metrics daily. Too busy to focus on hiring, training, and managing employees. Hiring the wrong people, or not training them, will destroy your business faster than running out of cash.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Contrary to a popular myth, problem-solving is a talent that can be developed. Make sure there are metrics for problem counts, resolution time and revenue impact. Make sure processes are updated, training is improved or priorities are communicated as required. Analyze issues to prevent similar problems. It never ends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

Solution development and delivery. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs. Show that you have a process to hire, fire, and train others as required. For progress and success assessment, each of these needs some metrics defined, a training plan, and responsibility assignments within your team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Based on my own many years of experience as both an employee and an executive, here are my key recommendations to improve your business productivity, traction and momentum: Implement business metrics, and tie incentives to results. Perfection is not an affordable target in product development, sales or customer support.

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Training Entrepreneur Tool Metrics 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2017

Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training. For starters, the whole team needs to be constantly trained and encouraged to develop their skills. Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Develop your business plan. Product development process. Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. At this stage, you should start recruiting, hiring, paying, and training others to help you run your business. Manage human resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2014

Provide direct customer contact to everyone, as well as training. For starters, the whole team needs to be constantly trained and encouraged to develop their skills. Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics.

Entrepreneur 110

Entrepreneur Startup Training Statistics 110

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2018

In all cases, don’t skip the basic training. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. Don’t stand still.

Startup 81

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 81

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2015

It’s easy for an entrepreneur or an employee to convince themselves that they would have been successful if they had more time, received more funding, or had the proper training to do the job. Usually the real culprit is procrastination, lack of focus, or low productivity and lack of metrics. Wait and hope for a miracle.

Startup 116

Startup Entrepreneur Class Coach 116

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Switch your attention from product development to sales. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. Managing business growth is more than metrics. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals.

Startup 108

Startup Sales Metrics Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2016

That means making sure the right people are hired, trained, and in the right place at the right time. Implement metrics and set objectives for every organization. This is also the time for business development focus, related social causes, and exploring common ground (coopetition initiatives) with competitors.

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