Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

These are the timeless principles that must guide all hiring, marketing, and execution decisions. Implement the key business metrices you will live by. Identify the three most important metrics your business must hit every week to achieve growth goals. Stay connected and engaged with your employees.

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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. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 4, 2014

But what does this mean for marketers? Will it be able to help brands market themselves better in social media? Why does twitter analytics considered as the “Holy Grail” for every content marketer? It provides key metrics that allow you to have a better understanding of your tweets. Improve Your Marketing By Tweeting.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In my own business career, many years as a business advisor, and mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I have validated the following strategies to practice and guide you. A broken process or a subtle quality issue can generate a flood of customer satisfaction problems, cost overruns, and loss of market share.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2020

Stroh, which details the principles and metrics to follow for fostering innovation in any organization. Every entrepreneur, no matter how experienced, will benefit from a personal board of directors or advisors to guide them in facets of their business. by Patrick J. Get the right players on board and enable them to do great things.

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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. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. Optimize the total customer experience.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. When should you start a company?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

It should be your guide for what to avoid. Often board members themselves don’t do the work to say “what metrics would we like to see.” Any great board member should tell you, “please don’t create any performance metrics or materials that analyze the business that you’re not already creating for your own management’s use.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2013

Most struggle with the idea and practice of marketing and sales, and see these as a necessary evil, if even required. Of course, for a price, there are many marketing organizations and gurus willing to come to your aid. The modern day field of dreams mantra has pivoted to “If you market it, they will come.” Marty Zwilling.

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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. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. Optimize the total customer experience.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

You might also have a business plan, marketing plan, financials, competitor analysis or other kinds of background document. For example, if you are trying to determine viral coefficient (see Startup Metrics ), then the focus should be around those aspects of the MVP. Or you can have a pitch deck.

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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. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Define metrics to measure what you want to achieve. For example, measuring marketing team members on sales leads may not get you the revenue growth or trust you expected. High-trust leaders see themselves as stewards, rather than owners, guiding people, assets, and decision making. Strive for win-win negotiation outcomes.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

What sized team can I afford in order to sell, market & provide service to these customers? But expanding beyond our core customers was going to take more effort than simply launching in new markets. We realized that operating a business in distributed markets presented multi-city coordination efforts that we weren’t prepared for.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2016

So here’s a short guide to achieving that. What you Before Sets the Course for How Well the Day Goes Make sure you send your financial and operating metrics no less than 72 hours before the board meeting — even better if it can be a week in advance. It’s your job to guide them there. Fix an agenda for the meeting.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market? We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Other Deals.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Dominique Hanssens, who is a prominent UCLA professor and specialist in the area of market response models. Did the TV stimulate search?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2015

Usually the real culprit is procrastination, lack of focus, or low productivity and lack of metrics. These are the cherished entrepreneurs who succeed despite tough odds, and the employees who come up with new approaches to delight your customers, achieve breakthrough goals, and develop innovative new products for markets you never imagined.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

He tells us: If you’re starting a new internet company, its important to know who your audience is, and to make sure that you don’t let your own experience and that of other Time Poor people guide you wrong. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

However, he quickly discovered the deal data the company was collecting was not just data--but a guide to the best practices on helping brokers close more deals, quickly. After refining their metrics even more, they doubled their performance, and then quadrupled it. Andrew Bermudez: It's kind of funny.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2016

Usually the real culprit is procrastination, lack of focus, or low productivity and lack of metrics. These are the cherished entrepreneurs who succeed despite tough odds, and the employees who come up with new approaches to delight your customers, achieve breakthrough goals, and develop innovative new products for markets you never imagined.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

We caught up with Clayton Lewis , the company's CEO (and also a General Partner at Maveron), here in Los Angeles last week as it launched into this market. In today's world, people are lonely, and they are really looking for someone to mentor them, to guide them, to hold them accountable. Arivale is based in Seattle. What is Arivale?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Includes content mobile guides, ie. Makes money by partnering with brands and marketers to publish location-triggered content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2016

Stroh, which details the principles and metrics to follow for fostering innovation in any organization. Every entrepreneur, no matter how experienced, will benefit from a personal board of directors or advisors to guide them in facets of their business. by Patrick J. Get the right players on board and enable them to do great things.

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Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

MBO is very metrics driven, and their shareholder reports are dense with detailed, disciplined reporting that remind you that Rick is former Naval officer. They have 1 million registered users, and have not spent a dime on marketing. Marketing expense? $0. This is a company for the long haul. He runs a tight ship.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. Enjoyed this post? Putting customers first. Innovative.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Lifestyle businesses are typically looked upon with derision by investors, as they generally do not have economic metrics that lead to large exits. Not satisfied with the quality of surf wax currently on the market, he decided to make his own. However, a number of Santa Barbara’s “lifestyle businesses” are anything but small.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2010

As startup entrepreneurs we all want to work with them because having their name as reference clients makes it so much easier for marketing, PR, selling to other customers, fund raising and even recruiting. Subjective warrants – I also see warrants given out without hard metrics. Large companies can be strange sometimes.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

There were no price guides, standardized rating systems or baseball card stores. In fact, in one instance, a dealer purchased all of our sets in order to “take them off the market.” As the collector centric hobby morphed into an investor-driven market, several card companies began producing multiple sets annually.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing.

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