Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. That means you have to start with assessing the current state against the same metrics, before you can assess progress or change. Make sure metric results are available to the team, to keep them motivated.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? What technology research is required? Accounting?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

Milana Rabkin: I think we had no idea how difficult it would be to build a product, and how much work it was to clean up metadata, and create an efficient framework, tools, and technology to get us to today. I come from the agency business, where we're all about making deals, and the metrics that matter are revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. You spend the months influencing the influencers.

Social Media 102

Social Media Media Product Metrics 102

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2021

The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate. Re-evaluate processes as they are today and set metrics to better represent the new sales, operational, and service needs.

Social Media 143

Social Media Startup Framework Course 143

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. You spend the months influencing the influencers.

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Social Media Media Marketing Metrics 96

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The world is full of high-achievers and high expectations, but without the proper framework for turning entrepreneurial determination into real leadership accomplishment, you risk going nowhere. Proactively sets metrics and track goals. Always an evangelist and a good communicator. Willing to question assumptions and adapt.

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Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Framework 141

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. That means you have to start with assessing the current state against the same metrics, before you can assess progress or change. Make sure metric results are available to the team, to keep them motivated.

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Startup Resource Metrics Technical Review 108

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little though given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. You spend the months influencing the influencers.

Social Media 91

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 91

SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

Provide the metrics you are trying to achieve. Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer. Developers like to do things their way even when it doesn’t meet the needs of the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2013

Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. That means you have to start with assessing the current state against the same metrics, before you can assess progress or change. Make sure metric results are available to the team, to keep them motivated.

Startup 101

Startup Resource Metrics Technical Review 101

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The world is full of high-achievers and high expectations, but without the proper framework for turning entrepreneurial determination into real leadership accomplishment, you risk going nowhere. Proactively sets metrics and track goals. Always an evangelist and a good communicator. Willing to question assumptions and adapt.

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Entrepreneur Ideas Framework Tips 122

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Focusing on the metrics that ultimately drive the business, often the bottom line, has provided a reality check, a counter-weight to the desire to consume all new technologies. As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2014

The world is full of high-achievers and high expectations, but without the proper framework for turning entrepreneurial determination into real leadership accomplishment, you risk going nowhere. Proactively sets metrics and track goals. Always an evangelist and a good communicator. Willing to question assumptions and adapt.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Ideas Framework Tips 111

socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

The company is all about data solutions which combine meaningful application frameworks together. David Loo: Ultimately, at the C-level, the CIO requires data metrics and intelligence, in order to compete and make decisions and take actions to further a company's agenda. How did you get into this? What specific problem were you seeing?

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SaaS Startup Customer Custom 113

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media News 104

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2015

The world is full of high-achievers and high expectations, but without the proper framework for turning entrepreneurial determination into real leadership accomplishment, you risk going nowhere. Proactively sets metrics and track goals. Always an evangelist and a good communicator. Willing to question assumptions and adapt.

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Entrepreneur Ideas Framework Tips 103

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2012

The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate. Re-evaluate processes as they are today and set metrics to better represent the new sales, operational, and service needs.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Social Media Startup Framework 93

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2013

The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate. Re-evaluate processes as they are today and set metrics to better represent the new sales, operational, and service needs.

Startup 94

Startup Social Media Entrepreneur Framework 94

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. You spend the months influencing the influencers.

Social Media 62

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 62

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Amos Schwartzfarb: My hope is that, at a bare minimum people read it and say, there is a framework here I can use, to use data to test whether what I believe is going to be a company is true. Amos Schwartzfarb: To the degree that it's possible, always use quantifiable metrics.

Sales 113

Sales Startup Custom Development Framework 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

After learning from a board member about the Jobs To Be Done framework, the board and leadership team agreed that this approach, which explores what causes someone to hire or fire a product or service, could provide even more actionable insights. This work only took them so far, however.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

We're all using enum types here and there, we're all using the collections framework. It beats RegularEnumSet in all important metrics: Query speed ( contains(element) , etc.) Fast forward to today, I don't see many people using int flags anymore (though there are notable exceptions ). Iteration speed Space consumed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2018

The world is full of high-achievers and high expectations, but without the proper framework for turning entrepreneurial determination into real leadership accomplishment, you risk going nowhere. Proactively sets metrics and track goals. Always an evangelist and a good communicator. Willing to question assumptions and adapt.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Framework Tips 66

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

Startup 61

Startup Social Media News Tool 61

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2016

Every entrepreneur needs a strategy, and some metrics to measure what’s working and how much it costs. He offers a framework I like with lots of practical guidance on how to evaluate possibilities, overcome obstacles, and generate measurable results: Identify alternatives that make sense for your business.

Marketing 58

Marketing Startup Social Media Newsletter 58

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? What technology research is required? Accounting?

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CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop 232

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2022

They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free. In any case, reframing the conversation from paid media marketing to the new framework requires a balance, and measurements along the way to better manage return on investment.

Marketing 127

Marketing Framework Social Media Media 127

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Klout Puts Metrics Into Social Media Management - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , May 21, 2010 I really like klout.com for three good reasons: 1.) it’s about measuring online influence and I’m big on metrics as a key element of business planning; 2.) What should I do?’. Where Do You Fit? they released a new 2.0

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free. In any case, reframing the conversation from paid media marketing to the new framework requires a balance, and measurements along the way to better manage return on investment.

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Media Marketing Startup Framework 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free. In any case, reframing the conversation from paid media marketing to the new framework requires a balance, and measurements along the way to better manage return on investment.

Marketing 100

Marketing Social Media Framework Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free. In any case, reframing the conversation from paid media marketing to the new framework requires a balance, and measurements along the way to better manage return on investment.

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Media Framework Social Media Metrics 95

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Startups either get three dozen term sheets or none at all, since every firm is walking around with the same frameworks and metrics in their head. Some more on metrics design and quantification. There is a huge amount of money sloshing around, and very few deals that are in that sweet spot between obvious and highly risky.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free. In any case, reframing the conversation from paid media marketing to the new framework requires a balance, and measurements along the way to better manage return on investment.

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Advertising Marketing Startup Framework 66

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

It’s a very personal topic and I’d like to offer you a framework to decide for yourself, based on the following factors: How Long is it Taking to Raise Capital at Your Stage in the Market? ” and if anybody gives you a specific number I would be a bit skeptical because there is no universal answer.

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Startup Capital Funding Invest 259

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

Natural language merchandiser Compare Metrics. Addison, Texas is home of The open source eCommerce framework Broadleaf. Retail pricing intelligence provider Blacklocus ; who was picked up by Home Depot, making ATX the home of their innovation center. Offline engagement platform EyeQ. Web based shipping service Ordoro.

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Technical Review Commerce Yahoo Web 71