Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2016

push for achievement – hopefully establishing a realistic set of strategies and accurate metrics to measure progress along a timeline. I recently sat in on a roundtable meeting in which the executive of a company stated his goal as “educate the world.” More often, you (the leader) set the goal and.

Education 120

Education Metrics Course Resource 120

Berkonomics

AUGUST 7, 2014

Attend trade show education sessions. Create metrics for customer acquisition, retention, conversion, reach, or anything that helps you to better understand the effects of your changes to the program. The first rule of marketing and positioning is to listen to the marketplace. Hire consultants. But listen! Adapt (again)!

Marketing 176

Marketing Metrics Education Resource 176

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

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. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships.

Sales 147

Sales Metrics Guide Startup 147

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Implement metrics and set objectives for every organization. Long-term success requires planning for leader development in every organization, rotation of high-potential employees through key roles, and support for outside executive education programs. Now the experiments are over, and high productivity is the objective.

Startup 137

Startup Training Entrepreneur Organization 137

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Demographics at funds and startups will also be under the microscope, since signatories have agreed to report on their composition by race, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability status, immigration status, veteran status, educational attainment, socioeconomic origin, tenure at a firm.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 1, 2018

I first heard this expression in a governance seminar for a non-profit higher educational board upon which I sit, years ago. The CEO spoke, shared metrics, spoke of issues to be addressed during the coming week, and did a fine job of pointing the assembled troops in the right direction. I could not have been more pleased.

Report 226

Report Metrics Organization Education 226

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2022

Set goals based on values, that are meant to exceed, and use metrics, rather than gut feeling to assess your own progress, as well as that of your team. The days of educating customers to sell your current solutions are gone. Measure, don’t guess, with tools that build, not limit. Lead to learn and the benefit will go both ways.

Case Study 139

Case Study Customer Custom Tool 139

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining. In the book, Jaffe introduces three new sets of metrics for gauging progress: Medium-term metrics.

Media 95

Media Framework Social Media Metrics 95

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 3, 2009

Monday, March 9, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Successful Acquisition Integration. 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. See [link] (more).

Acquisition 100

Acquisition CalTech Metrics Education 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 -- Caltech Executive Education: Successful Acquisition Integration. 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.

Acquisition 100

Acquisition CalTech Metrics Education 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Our online solution combines both scientific methodology, as well as highly produced, entertaining, professional development content around education and awareness of unconscious bias. It's education, measurement, analysis, and ongoing mitigation strategy. That's what we do over the course of our two year contract.

Content 150

Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2022

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? A responsible entrepreneur promotes both loyalty and responsible consumption by educating consumers so they can make more informed decisions about their purchases, based on ecological footprints, and other sustainability criteria.

Startup 110

Startup Entrepreneur Capital Examples 110

SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Successful Acquisition Integration. 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.

Acquisition 100

Acquisition CalTech IP Metrics 100

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Well-tuned metrics are an absolute must. And the tools for most are available, sometimes free, for the educated marketer. If you can’t measure the results of your attempts to gain a viral response, how can you know when to focus upon reinforcing or changing the effort? Fifth: reaction.

Social Network 179

Social Network Metrics Ideas Sites 179

Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

Well-tuned metrics are an absolute must. And the tools for most are available, sometimes free, for the educated marketer. If you can’t measure the results of your attempts to gain a viral response, how can you know when to focus upon reinforcing or changing the effort? Fifth: reaction.

Sites 156

Sites Product Social Network Press 156

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2020

Implement metrics and set objectives for every organization. Long-term success requires planning for leader development in every organization, rotation of high-potential employees through key roles, and support for outside executive education programs. Now the experiments are over, and high productivity is the objective.

Startup 125

Startup Training Entrepreneur Organization 125

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

48:30 Vanity metrics. 52:00 Actionable metrics. 1:09:50 We need education! 43:20 The inception of Lean Startup. 44:45 Telling an entrepreneur to focus is like telling a fat person to lose weight. 46:18 iOS Vs. Android. 46:50 Engines of Growth. 49:00 Startups are all naked in the mirror. 53:35 Opposition to departmental silos.

Social Media 301

Social Media Startup Metrics Media 301

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

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. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships.

Startup 97

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 97

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. But these still need coaching on the unknowns, and ongoing education to keep up with the industry and the technology. Innovation is not a random walk into the unknown. Ownership.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 101

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2016

I work with two companies that aim to change education but both are indirectly aiming to do so. I think I’m better at the product stage of a business and helping with strategy, marketing, pricing, feature sets and so forth than I am at evaluating later-stage businesses based on financial results and business metrics and priced accordingly.

Invest 254

Invest Writing Pricing Metrics 254

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining. In the book, Jaffe introduces three new sets of metrics for gauging progress: Medium-term metrics.

Advertising 66

Advertising Marketing Startup Framework 66

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining. In the book, Jaffe introduces three new sets of metrics for gauging progress: Medium-term metrics.

Marketing 100

Marketing Social Media Framework Media 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

But the most important metric has been the deep and lasting relationships that have been built with startups and also between senior executives. The first two years of the program focused on education & mentorship. This education will continue. 23 companies have gone through Launchpad LA. So we went ahead.

Venture Capital 287

Venture Capital Funding Startup GRP Partners 287

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

These usually provide a customer’s first impression of your offering, and should not be blatantly self-promotional, but instead informative, educational, and even entertaining. In the book, Jaffe introduces three new sets of metrics for gauging progress: Medium-term metrics.

Media 101

Media Marketing Startup Framework 101

InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2019

Measure What Matters – The McDonald brothers were dogmatic about tracking metrics. They’re driven by metrics that don’t matter.” Brad Feld, American Venture Capitalist. The format was too different and the McDonald brothers didn’t offer an adequate level of customer education.

Startup 100

Startup Netflix Entrepreneur Metrics 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2019

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? A responsible entrepreneur promotes both loyalty and responsible consumption by educating consumers so they can make more informed decisions about their purchases, based on ecological footprints, and other sustainability criteria.

Startup 93

Startup Entrepreneur Capital Examples 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2019

Set goals based on values, that are meant to exceed, and use metrics, rather than gut feeling to assess your own progress, as well as that of your team. The days of educating customers to sell your current solutions are gone. Measure, don’t guess, with tools that build, not limit. Lead to learn and the benefit will go both ways.

Case Study 93

Case Study Customer Custom Tool 93

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

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. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships.

Startup 108

Startup Sales Metrics Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Empowering and educating everyone to make the right decisions at every opportunity leads to happy customers and business success. Communicate your values often, and use values-based performance metrics to gauge your results, measure the level of implementation, leadership development, and succession planning. Input = output.

Startup 101

Startup Tips Education Customer 101

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I first heard this in a governance seminar for a non-profit higher educational board upon which I sit, years ago. The CEO spoke, shared metrics, spoke of issues to be addressed during the coming week, and did a fine job of pointing the assembled troops in the right direction. It made an impact and stuck with me through the years.

Metrics 120

Metrics Education Course Email 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2017

In my role as a new business advisor, I sometimes see people who are very intelligent and well-educated, but not adept at problem solving. Establish metrics to assure solution and prevent recurrence. Define the required metrics, including a check for side effects and follow-on problems.

Metrics 58

Metrics Entrepreneur Examples Coach 58

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

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. 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

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. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships.

Sales 96

Sales Metrics Startup Entrepreneur 96

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

You need executive buy-in, committed budgets, and education for the whole team on objectives and activities. Don’t forget the metrics and analytics. Social media is not free – it takes time and skills that you won’t have by default. Ad hoc coverage by team members in their spare time is a recipe for failure.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Startup Tips 108

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? A responsible entrepreneur promotes both loyalty and responsible consumption by educating consumers so they can make more informed decisions about their purchases, based on ecological footprints, and other sustainability criteria.

Startup 104

Startup Entrepreneur Examples Satisfaction 104

InfoChachkie

JUNE 2, 2014

We keep our eye on a handful of metrics, but we’re focused on customer satisfaction. This is a disruptive concept for the bridal industry so we need to spread awareness that bridesmaid dress rentals is an option and educate them on the process since it is new to women.

Design 208

Design Customer Custom Satisfaction 208

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. If nothing else you will create board cohesion and board education by engaging your board. By being so metrics driven we can have a lot more quantifiable and objective discussions at board meetings and at mid-point reviews. .

Tips 365

Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365