Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

In most businesses, this means selling something, and proving that your product or service has value. These are the timeless principles that must guide all hiring, marketing, and execution decisions. Implement the key business metrices you will live by. Don’t delegate this cash management stage to anyone else in the business.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The iPad probably would have failed before production, had he used feedback and research from past failures of tablets in any previous form as a guide. On the other hand, most products or services are created in response to a real or perceived need. And most of us are not Steve Jobs.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Content Recommendations in Streaming Services While many streaming platforms suggest content based on viewing history, LLMs have the power to significantly elevate this experience. This anticipated content then serves as a query, guiding the retrieval of pertinent documents. Strive for a balanced outcome.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

If you want to build and maintain a creative culture in your organization, you need to make sure your operation is guided by these seven critical strategies: Fuel passion. Many businesses give lip service to their celebration of innovation, but punish, rather than reward, risk-taking and creativity. Celebrate ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

He offers over 50 guiding principles, distilled from his tenure at Amazon, to become a digital leader in today’s marketplace. Institute deep metrics measuring all aspects of the customer experience. Recently, I saw some help in that regard in a new book, “ Think Like Amazon ,” by John Rossman, a former top executive at Amazon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2013

It''s a line from an old movie "Field of Dreams" which is still leading to the demise of too many startups, led by entrepreneurs who really started their business to build an exciting new product or service. entrepreneur startup metrics marketing sales business' Fans contribute 2.6 Are your customers coming fast enough?

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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. What is Digsy? My background is in commercial real estate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

If you want to build and maintain a creative culture in your organization, you need to make sure your operation is guided by these seven critical rules: Fuel passion. Many businesses give lip service to their celebration of innovation, but punish, rather than reward, risk-taking and creativity. Celebrate ideas.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

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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. This is an interesting concept and not something Ive seen articulated this way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2013

If you want to build and maintain a creative culture in your organization, you need to make sure your operation is guided by these seven critical rules: Fuel passion. Many businesses give lip service to their celebration of innovation, but punish, rather than reward, risk-taking and creativity. Celebrate ideas.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2012

If you want to build and maintain a creative culture in your organization, you need to make sure your operation is guided by these seven critical rules: Fuel passion. Many businesses give lip service to their celebration of innovation, but punish, rather than reward, risk-taking and creativity. Celebrate ideas.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

How profitable is my product or service? What sized team can I afford in order to sell, market & provide service to these customers? So with operations in four key cities and recurring revenue now firmly above $10 million per year and with 10,000+ customers we realized that we needed a proper CFO to guide our growth.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

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Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

I should add that Rick is hardly a starry-eyed devotee of customer service. MBO is very metrics driven, and their shareholder reports are dense with detailed, disciplined reporting that remind you that Rick is former Naval officer. You will see patterns in their responses that will guide you to the next innovation.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2011

If you want to build and maintain a creative culture in your organization, you need to make sure your operation is guided by these seven critical rules: Fuel passion. Many businesses give lip service to their celebration of innovation, but punish, rather than reward, risk-taking and creativity. Celebrate ideas.

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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. A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements. Includes content mobile guides, ie. If you’re an entrepreneur make sure you watch the video for that segment alone. It’s awesome.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2010

So Plan B for many BigCo’s is to take “performance-based warrants.&# The following is a guide to what these are, whether to offer them and how to structure them. If they value your product / service they’ll buy it. If they don’t value your product / service they won’t. Common Mistakes.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

How is this different from other DNA testing startups and services out there today? In today's world, people are lonely, and they are really looking for someone to mentor them, to guide them, to hold them accountable. Third, there's ultimately the real opportunity to develop scientific, validated metrics for wellness.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

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. 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.) The Holy Grail of. Innovative.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Other highlights include “LOST” executive producer Carlton Cruze on hand to present his partnership with companion app i.TV , a presentation of the handheld personalized program guide Ninento TVii for Wii, and TVGuide.com showed off their WatchList app. They all gather different metrics.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. And how much do others providers make?

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

There were no price guides, standardized rating systems or baseball card stores. In addition, rigid grading systems were established by professional grading services. The advent of investors and grading services drove up the demand for near-perfect cards while suppressing the value of all other cards.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. The real reason to build an MVP is to do early tests of key Startup Metrics for the business. " Once you have the metrics defined, it focuses your effort. To prove/disprove a hypothesis.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

We make it trivial to quickly aggregate and monitor your key metrics in real-time! Start Engine offers a team of mentors who have proven themselves as successful entrepreneurs – not professional investors – ensuring that its startups are guided by the right people for the right reasons. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool. As a vendor for game-changing plasma lighting, they’ve grown themselves a fantastic business servicing the Hollywood/entertainment industry in Los Angeles with their innovative lineup of clearer, cleaner, and cooler stage and spot lighting.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

How could it be when they always have “schlocky” ads or PSAs (public service announcements). Online text book rental service. Offers a private label service that allows campus book retailers to offer an online rental model; serves 1.3mm to-date. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

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