Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Business success is all about meeting the needs of the modern buyer, who is more informed, has access to more choices, and is ever smarter about making purchasing decisions. Metrics which must be tracked include number of leads, conversion rates by lead stage, velocity, growth rate, and total lead database size.

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Metrics Marketing Demand Paramount 101

Berkonomics

AUGUST 1, 2019

From experience and from information about the competition, a coach creates a playbook that contains detailed plans for actions or plays that the entire team must know without question and execute without pause in order to win games and advance toward the playoffs. This one comes straight from football. But you know that of course.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 16, 2022

We can invent lots of metrics to measure progress for a leader, including revenue, profit, employee satisfaction, cost containment, percentage of available market, and more. With this information and challenge, how would you measure your effectiveness as a leader? There are many roads to Rio, so they say.

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Resource Satisfaction Metrics Course 156

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

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. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Social Media Framework Media Metrics 135

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2020

Business success is all about meeting the needs of the modern buyer, who is more informed, has access to more choices, and is ever smarter about making purchasing decisions. Metrics which must be tracked include number of leads, conversion rates by lead stage, velocity, growth rate, and total lead database size.

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Marketing Invest Demand Metrics 174

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

From experience and from information about the competition, a coach creates a playbook that contains detailed plans for actions or plays that the entire team must know without question and execute without pause in order to win games and advance toward the playoffs. This one comes straight from football.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Recently, several retailers that have used TikTok to sell items have informed the Financial Times that “the level of resources needed to sell on the app was not worth the returns”. By some metrics, certainly not. Should Tech Giants Stop Trying to Make Social Commerce Happen?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The best relationships allow for informal conversations about concerns that can be acted on later. Develop metrics to monitor work intensity. These metrics are also the best way to gauge when your team needs more help, and identifying strong and weak contributors. Let that be part of their job satisfaction.

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Satisfaction Metrics Competition Examples 108

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What are your key Startup Metrics ? How much member profile information do you need before allowing a user to login? Location/Geography - are you using geographic information? What about reporting and moderation? Analytics/Metrics - what are the key startup metrics that you will need to track? Dump out data?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What are your key Startup Metrics ? How much member profile information do you need before allowing a user to login? Location/Geography - are you using geographic information? What about reporting and moderation? Analytics/Metrics - what are the key startup metrics that you will need to track? Dump out data?

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Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Berkonomics

AUGUST 16, 2010

Many early stage CEO’s believe they can delegate design and creation of metrics, flash reports, analytical reports and more to their bookkeepers. And at some early stages, a bookkeeper is capable of preparing such information. The lesson here is twofold.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Similarly, you can add labels to cards to provide more information at-a-glance. The Dashboard offers a bird's-eye view of projects, letting you see key metrics such as due dates, assigned cards, and cards-per-list so bottlenecks can be prevented before they begin. ” These allow you to clone one card to appear on multiple boards.

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Software Review Guide Technical Review Class 152

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Most startup founders don’t relish the thought of managing repeatable processes, greedy stockholders, and endless regulation reports. New startup founders keep all the operating metrics they need in their head. The best sale or acquisition is a gradual one, where the acquirer gets to know you through formal and informal relationships.

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Startup Entrepreneur Metrics Acquisition 99

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2021

A required metric is average days to payment compared to expectations. Not producing and reviewing financial reports regularly. It’s well worthwhile to learn the basics and use financial reports. Considering the job done once a client has been invoiced. A startup must ensure that the payments are collected per agreed terms.

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Technical Review Startup Summary Pricing 151

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2021

Most startup founders don’t relish the thought of managing repeatable processes, greedy stockholders, and endless regulation reports. New startup founders keep all the operating metrics they need in their head. The best sale or acquisition is a gradual one, where the acquirer gets to know you through formal and informal relationships.

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Startup Entrepreneur Metrics Acquisition 173

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

If we build it, they will come” doesn’t work in today’s worldwide information overload. You need advisors and a board of directors, but they require regular communication and reporting, a strategic plan, and discipline. It takes the right team to build a great business. A growing team needs skilled managers and an HR organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

I paraphrase here the key challenges he identifies, adding my own insights: Marketing ROI requires cross-enterprise information. You must have a strong Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) with a clear strategy for spending, and metrics to gauge results. You have to determine how to share these costs and credit.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

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. The problem is traditionally, there is a swivel chair problem, where when one customer has an issue they want to report to that service provider.

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SaaS Startup Customer Custom 113

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

It turns out that financial reporting (GAAP) doesn’t take into account the only thing that matters to startup survival – cashflow. The full financial details and metrics were in the deck. So my time was freed up to call board members in advance and walk them through our metrics and understand any concerns.

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Outsource Development Metrics Startup Sales 150

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 23, 2013

Digging deeper behind the scenes we are presented with a powerful analytics solution enabling marketers the ability to track success metrics down to the minute. We’re talking real-time metrics here, ladies and gentlemen. What does this mean? PromoJam 2.0 PromoJam 2.0 is available with a risk-free 15 days trial for everyone.

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Platform Metrics Social Media Marketing 99

InfoChachkie

MARCH 23, 2015

A company''s Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a beloved metric slavishly tracked and reported by product marketing and customer support executives of both established and nascent enterprises. However, rather than obsessing on a single metric, entrepreneurs should focus on improving their Net Profit Score.

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.Net Startup Satisfaction Technical Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2019

According to current reports , both your employees and your customers have to feel they know you, and you know them, before levels of trust can accrue. Annual bonuses tied to production metrics are nice, but these will not generate the long-term trust and loyalty you need to set the culture.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To help companies make informed business decisions, we are building statistical models that show information at higher-than-the-platform level. The data science team also builds pretty robust reporting. If Facebook skews too heavily, and Google is on last click, then sometimes it looks like things are never working.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 30, 2018

The product blends data mining, cognitive AI, and learning science to analyze a company’s competencies and present the information through simple reporting in order to gain valuable insights from their big data. The team at Headai creates software bots to help automate everyday intellectual tasks. in Spring 2018. Lovelytics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

A required metric is average days to payment compared to expectations. Not producing and reviewing financial reports regularly. It’s well worthwhile to learn the basics and use financial reports. Considering the job done once a client has been invoiced. A startup must insure that the payments are collected per agreed terms.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Summary Pricing 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2015

This field combines telecommunications, GPS and other technologies to enable real time reporting on vehicle usage metrics that was not previously possible. Simba Technologies provided a leap forward in this field when they made OLAP reporting available for familiar tools, like Excel.

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LATechDigest

MAY 12, 2016

Our clients now have access to four distinct analytics applications that will help them to make smarter, more strategic and more informed talent decisions.”. Interactive data visualization tools allow managers to easily search, filter and compare people by centralizing information from across the Cornerstone unified talent management suite.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

According to many observers , we can thank or blame technology for these higher expectations, providing information at the speed of light, leading everyone to expect more. It must be written down, with measurable team objectives, validated by metrics and compared against competition.

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Customer Custom Startup Coach 55

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2012

A required metric is average days to payment compared to expected. Not producing and reviewing financial reports regularly. It’s well worthwhile to learn the basics and use financial reports. Considering the job done once a client has been invoiced. A startup must insure that the payments are collected per agreed terms.

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Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur Summary 109

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Most startup founders don’t relish the thought of managing repeatable processes, greedy stockholders, and endless regulation reports. New startup founders keep all the operating metrics they need in their head. The best sale or acquisition is a gradual one, where the acquirer gets to know you through formal and informal relationships.

Startup 98

Startup Entrepreneur Metrics Acquisition 98

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The image of a self-proclaimed expert who can generate a report, make a great presentation, and leave you to do the implementation, is just not attractive when you don’t have a staff, and you are already overloaded with the crisis of the day. Adopt a project-based revenue model with metrics. Use social media for more visibility.

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Social Media Software Review Customer Custom 56

Steve Reich

AUGUST 15, 2015

You will create havoc if you fail to keep your Angels (or any other investor) informed. Take the time to shoot them a “what’s up” email monthly, and serious financial reports quarterly. They know all the details and all the metrics because they are industry experts. They don’t live in your world.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 3, 2013

SFA had many of the same adoption challenges as those that the advertising market is facing today: management wanted to use it because it simplified and standardized sales force management; it offered one dashboard, one place to view metrics on the organization and one place to store critical customer information.

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Advertising Sales Organization Customer 76

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

However, mobile devices have not only revolutionized the world of the consumer--they've also made inroads into the corporate market, changing how companies provide access to important information and data to their partners and employees. The use cases range from sales enablement to human resources, to executive reporting.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Product managers have challenges with getting the right information at the right level to the right people. Greathouse: One of the things an outside investor brings to the equation, in addition to money, is a set cadence with regard to planning, reporting and honest post-mortems of initiatives. Semick: Yeah, right (laughs).

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

He gave a glimpse into the 500 Startups program, including, but not limited to: Weekly roundup meetings with all hands to report wins and losses. So far, after every batch completion, that’s been the number one benefit reported by almost all our startups. For more information on 500 Startups, be sure to visit their website.

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Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Most board meetings are administrative updates that accomplish very little other than inform board members about the performance of the company since the last board meeting. People debate the information you put in front of them. Never put information in front of people if you don’t want it discussed.

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