Berkonomics

JUNE 24, 2021

There are many types of metrics, some very easy to manage. A leader’s duty is to make sure that anything s/he delegates, and measures is given a chance of success by providing the tools required to perform the job. Those include funding, people, training, and facilities. Third: support.

Organization 156

Organization Coach Metrics Training 156

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Using new tools for recruiting key players and advisors. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media News 104

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

When you are starting a new business, every resource is precious, including time, funding, and people. 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.

Outsource Development 122

Outsource Development Outsource Metrics Technical Review 122

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2022

There is no magic lever for growth, so several initiatives are required, with metrics to assess value returned. Manual processes and people are always the most expensive to scale, so every process needs metrics to determine when automation is appropriate. Ask every employee to focus on sales. Both are strategies for business failure.

Startup 134

Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media Metrics 134

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2022

Betting on funds you don’t yet have has crashed many businesses I know. Hire the best, and provide necessary training and tools. Too many busy business leaders I know take shortcuts in hiring, looking for a quick fill, assuming new employees can learn on the job, with minimal training and old tools.

Startup 134

Startup Training Tool Demand 134

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

The company recently raised $8M in a funding from Evolution Media, Aspect Ventures, Upfront Ventures, as well as a long list of angels. Technology was changing the business and our jobs as agents and managers, and we needed to figure out how to leverage tools to create more opportunities. What is Stem?

Startup 140

Startup Content Metrics Platform 140

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

Shane Bernstein: We look at actionable data points and data metrics which are quantifiable across the web, and we qualify them and normalize that data, and sort them based on what they've done. I was inspired looking for a tool to increase output as an agency, and decrease our costs. That's an engagement tool.

Sites 240

Sites Startup Tool CTO Hire 240

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

As a startup investor, I often see business proposals looking for funding that really look like expensive hobbies looking for donations. I still see entrepreneurs who spend money and time for months on a new business idea without any separation of personal and business funds, and any formal accounting system for their new business.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Startup Competition 131

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Using new tools for recruiting key players and advisors. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards.

Tips 161

Tips Startup Social Media News 161

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2023

First you work in the kitchen for a while, learning some tools of the trade, experiment with a few recipes, and test on willing clients. 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. Don’t stand still.

Startup 112

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 112

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2023

Sustained executive sponsorship with funding. Here we see the first early-stage corporate governance of innovation, with funding and processes for innovation as separate activities from business as usual. Maturing proficiency with innovation metrics. This requires dedicated resources of both time and money.

Organization 111

Organization Activity Resource Examples 111

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

There are many types of metrics, some very easy to manage. A leader’s duty is to make sure that anything s/he delegates and measures is given a chance of success by providing the tools required to perform the job. Those include funding, people, training and facilities. Third: support.

Organization 220

Organization Metrics Training Course 220

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2020

There is no magic lever for growth, so several initiatives are required, with metrics to assess value returned. Manual processes and people are always the most expensive to scale, so every process needs metrics to determine when automation is appropriate. Ask every employee to focus on sales. Both are strategies for business failure.

Search Engine Optimization 131

Search Engine Optimization Startup Social Media Metrics 131

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

First you work in the kitchen for a while, learning some tools of the trade, experiment with a few recipes, and test on willing clients. 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. Don’t stand still.

Startup 156

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 156

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

Simple metrics and your personal knowledge of the industry can’t keep up with all the relevant competitive forces. Amazon attracts third-party sellers with tools and processes that make then all winners in the marketplace. These have the vision and the resources to fund long-term digital success.

Competition 142

Competition Software Review Social Media Customer 142

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

Define success metrics, and measure progress regularly. Look for tools to automate and simplify strategy execution. Too many entrepreneurs I know burn themselves out as this burden grows, and they are hesitant to use available tools or outsourcing non-critical tasks to allow scaling.

Startup 123

Startup Outsource Development Entrepreneur Outsource 123

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2021

I believe all of us in business need to practice these actions to improve our effectiveness and leadership, to overcome the tough challenges, including funding and leadership, that we all face: Identify a “higher purpose” that embodies your values. Define and use real metrics to measure progress. Manual assessment is not productive.

Customer 157

Customer Custom Metrics Ideas 157

socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital. We're in the space, and leading the thought process on what needs to be combined, for example, CRM with ITSM tools, to create meaningful results that you can act on at the C-level. You're received some funding lately? What is Perspectium? How did you get into this?

SaaS 113

SaaS Startup Customer Custom 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2021

If you can’t state clearly why your startup is the only choice, then it’s time to regroup before spending your hard-fought funding. A simple and inexpensive way to do this today is to add an interactive tool like LeadChat to your website. Build a marketing plan with deliverables and metrics.

Technical Advisors 154

Technical Advisors Tips Marketing Case Study 154

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2020

Every investor can recite examples of passionate entrepreneurs who seek funding for a worthy cause, like feeding the hungry, without a real business case for who will pay. You can and must fix this by communicating business goals and objectives, and establishing personal metrics which only reward success.

Startup 113

Startup Examples Coach Metrics 113

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

We had created a tool to let people search online for commercial real estate, then we'd have a concierge plug them into a broker, so that they could meet with a tenant or buyer. We figured out we needed some tools to monitor the performance of the agents, otherwise they'd just fall off the face of the earth. How's the startup funded?

Sales 145

Sales Startup Email Tool 145

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

As a startup investor, I often see business proposals looking for funding that really look like expensive hobbies looking for donations. I still see entrepreneurs who spend money and time for months on a new business idea without any separation of personal and business funds, and any formal accounting system for their new business.

Outsource Development 99

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 99

socalTECH

AUGUST 28, 2017

Unlike Yelp and listings sites that are focused on user-generated reviews or things like that, we're really a portfolio sharing site, and a tool of professionals. That is all gearing up for a Series A funding, which will happen in the summer of 2018. Don't be enamored with vanity metrics like for us, growth of photos.

Technical Advisors 100

Technical Advisors Technical Review Metrics Startup 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

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. Distinguish growth opportunities from survival efforts, and make sure they are adequately funded, rewarded, and measured.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Layoffs Social Media Metrics 124

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Jackson, CEO and co-founder of CapLinked (www.caplinked.com), which is developing tools to help entrepreneurs and investors connect. My cofounder and I know how hard it is to get a company up and running, and funded, to keep your investors in the loop. Finally, for CapLinked, how has the firm been funded?

Southern California 243

Southern California Entrepreneur Software Review Yammer 243

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

How do you create a tool to help address unconscious bias in the workplaceand why would you create a new startup in that area? 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.

Content 150

Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

As a startup investor, I often see business proposals looking for funding that really look like expensive hobbies looking for donations. I still see entrepreneurs who spend money and time for months on a new business idea without any separation of personal and business funds, and any formal accounting system for their new business.

Ideas 62

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Competition 62

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2011

We're one of the limited number of companies who have been granted access to Facebook's Ads API program, which allows us to build tools on top of Facebook's advertising tools. We've worked with Microsoft, Live Nation, Variety, and other clients, plus just closed our funding of $2.2M from a group of VCs and angels.

Advertising 198

Advertising Startup Santa Monica Social Network 198

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.

Startup 88

Startup Demand Training Customer 88

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

This one deals with “arming&# your teams – preparing them for battle by giving them the right tools to increase their win rates. As a company you need to invest in ROI calculators (spreadsheets) that are easy for sales reps to plug in basic customer metrics and pop out with an expected benefit.

Sales 289

Sales Startup Training Pricing 289

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Use a simple accounting tool like QuickBooks, get away from co-mingled funds, and you have the first business process you need. Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Funding process. entrepreneur funding hobby investors startup'

Startup 107

Startup Outsource Development Training Outsource 107

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

A tool to better help you find bars & restaurants? We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. ” Scary because that hard earned $40,000 you have slavishly saved “for the future” is going to dwindle fast if you can’t bring in funding. They can’t wait to hear your brilliant idea. “What?

Startup 417

Startup Course Venture Capital Writing 417

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2018

First you work in the kitchen for a while, learning some tools of the trade, experiment with a few recipes, and test on willing clients. 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. Don’t stand still.

Startup 81

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 81

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Failure to react quickly often leads to funding freezes and founder replacements. Define and use market metrics to tune your plan. You need metrics to spot these changes, and regular new initiatives to test new and old alternatives. Regularly update internal process tools and technology.

Social Media 67

Social Media Metrics Startup Technical Review 67

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Using new tools for recruiting key players and advisors. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards.

Startup 61

Startup Social Media News Tool 61

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

First you work in the kitchen for a while, learning some tools of the trade, experiment with a few recipes, and test on willing clients. 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. Don’t stand still.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 93

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

But more importantly we talked in the video about fund raising and how Scott has become so efficient at it. And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248