socalTECH

JULY 22, 2013

forwardmetrics forward metrics strategic planning software venture capital' DiVinere was previously at executive at Altegris, before it was acquired by Genworth, serving as Vice President of the Altegris Private Client Group. DiVinere''s co-founder is Scott Warner, who was founder and CEO of AccuSoft Corporation. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

JULY 7, 2022

The best leaders find metrics to measure progress in achievement of these tactics, then don’t interfere with the execution of these tactics unless negative metrics signal a reason to do so. But no enterprise can grow or succeed without the delegation of tasks and without the thoughtful use of metrics to measure progress and success.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What are your key Startup Metrics ? Analytics/Metrics - what are the key startup metrics that you will need to track? Are there specific metrics needed for future funding rounds or for operations? Who are the other stakeholders involved? Other types of users? Administrators? How will you be taking this to market?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What are your key Startup Metrics ? Analytics/Metrics - what are the key startup metrics that you will need to track? Are there specific metrics needed for future funding rounds or for operations? Who are the other stakeholders involved? Other types of users? Administrators? How will you be taking this to market?

Develop 384

Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Berkonomics

JANUARY 25, 2018

Many early stage founders and CEO’s believe they can delegate design and creation of metrics, flash reports, analytical reports and more from their bookkeepers. We need to repeat this distinction on occasion, because there is a considerable difference between the cost of a bookkeeper and an accountant. Why bother with this?

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2013

It''s a combination of leveraging our data to provide activation of users, by sending out the posts, and really providing brands with the metrics of before, during, and after a campaign. In addition, those platforms are not providing the metrics that marketers need. That''s how we take the business to the next level.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

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. David set up employee policies, helped negotiate office leases, established our long-term accounting system, implemented RJ Metric and so forth.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

If you do build the MVP and show it to them, they will ask you about your metrics. They really want metrics, not a product. The real question you should be asking is "When I've built this product and show you the following metrics, would you invest?"

Metrics 264

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 5, 2013

It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. No-one challenged this number, and it became an unattributed source of the metric for market size for years. Or cost estimation.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments.

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Berkonomics

MAY 18, 2017

The technique, “OST” (objective, strategies and tactics), is a very good way to organize your effort to find guideposts and then develop metrics to measure progress. What is a strategy?

Organization 275

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

48:30 Vanity metrics. 52:00 Actionable metrics. 43:20 The inception of Lean Startup. 44:45 Telling an entrepreneur to focus is like telling a fat person to lose weight. 46:18 iOS Vs. Android. 46:50 Engines of Growth. 49:00 Startups are all naked in the mirror. 51:10 Astrology and causality in startups. 54:20 Semi-autonomous teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

But it will be patiently deployed, waiting for a cohort of founders who aren’t artificially clinging to 2021 valuation metrics. So we largely sat out fundings of NFTs or other areas where we didn’t feel like we were the expert or where the valuation metrics weren’t in line with our funding goals.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Later, we learned that knowing that about a user helps with targeting in advertising, and how that can help improve business metrics and help you make better decisions. We learned a lot when we opened up our technology for advertising, and figured out what metrics matter to them, and what problems had not been solved.

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TechEmpower

JUNE 6, 2018

Not just in measured results per second (several metric crap tonne), but in number of tests measured (~1830), number of framework permutations tested (~464), number of languages included (26), and total execution time of the test suite (67 hours, or 241 billion microseconds to make that sound properly enormous). It's lost in the noise.

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Framework TechEmpower Platform Metrics 378

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

We built one of our companies upon forecasted metrics for a specific class of retail consumer base, but found that there wasn’t enough money in our universe to pay for marketing to create that much dedicated traffic to our site. I can’t recall any of my companies hanging onto its original plan after some level of consumer feedback.

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Berkonomics

JULY 27, 2023

That’s how you would feel if you ran your company without a dashboard containing relevant metrics that drive your company. and great, relevant metrics? Email readers, continue here…] Metrics should be created by you and your managers to measure near real time progress of your enterprise. The post Go ahead!

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Berkonomics

MARCH 7, 2024

Email readers, continue here…] Many early-stage founders and CEOs believe they can delegate design and creation of metrics, flash reports, analytical reports and more from their bookkeepers. We need to repeat this distinction on occasion, because there is a considerable difference between the cost of a bookkeeper and an accountant.

Metrics 156

Metrics Training Report Tool 156

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2021

But very few are talking about how to measure your results and return on investment (ROI), and the right metrics for optimizing your marketing environment. Measuring message delivery in social media is a lot like measuring it in classic advertising, so classic metrics apply. Get attention and reach your audience.

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Social Media Media Metrics Satisfaction 127

Berkonomics

AUGUST 1, 2019

Well, if you have a plan but do not share it with your direct reports, then they are acting without motivation toward mutual goals, without metrics to measure their progress toward the goals, and without the leadership that makes great winners. He compares these metrics to past seasons, to competitors, to his own lifetime bests.

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Coach Metrics Training Course 120

Berkonomics

JUNE 28, 2018

Start by carefully restating the goal for the process, such as “produce 500 quality units per day” and create metrics to measure the present output and quality (rejects or time lost) with this goal. No matter what your company produces, there is surely a more efficient way to approach the process.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

But we do it anyway, because we believe that the short-term metrics probably aren''t indicative of the long term.”. Numerous small changes, any one of which had a minor impact on inventory costs or customer conversion metrics were compounded when combined with other small improvements. Let Your Competitors Chase The Quick Buck.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

There are many types of metrics, some very easy to manage. [Email readers, continue here…] Second: measure the results of delegation. If there is no attempt to measure, no-one will know if the work is up to standards for timeliness, quality, or the vision of the leader. Third: support.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

That might work for $50-100k but less likely for $3m unless you’re a seasoned entrepreneur, known to the VC, have some metrics that work in your favor or have built something the VC believes to be truly unique. And make sure you have some metrics or some way of demonstrating why you believe this is going to be a really big market.

Startup 360

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2015

private companies grow so quickly that their metrics catch up with their valuations. And it doesn’t change the fact that our late-stage venture markets are over-valued relative to public markets, so either. public stocks go up and privates can grow into IPOs; or. I’m betting on the middle option but time will tell.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

It is what is commonly referred to as “vanity metrics” as in, “Look at how many more followers I got us! Clicks are also a simple measure that you can get from basic link tracking packages. End of story. That’s all “top of funnel” analysis that leaves you flying blind as a marketer. Or Likes – LIKES!

Marketing 307

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2020

You need to track what content is resonating with your prospective customers, through metrics including submit rate by content offer, elasticity, velocity, cost, and ultimately revenue by content program. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2021

For example, I commonly see metrics to keep track of revenue per employee, overtime, and absenteeism, but I don’t often see measures of overall customer satisfaction with individual employees. Incentives should be a combination of metrics and recognition to highlight results. Incent and reward employees who delight customers.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

According to the company, it has developed a platform that addresses the critical steps of data extraction, transformation, and analysis to give end users access to business data and metrics.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Making the effort to gather metrics from the field in any form and then ignoring it, takes guts and determination – and in most cases a measure of stupidity. 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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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Email readers, continue here…] So, think of ways to make each process into a game, one in which there is a defined metric or measure of the winner at the end of a cycle short enough to permit teaching, celebration, challenge, and motivation for the next time played. How do you make “process” into “game?”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2020

I agree with the classic book by Ros Taylor, “ Creativity at Work: Supercharge Your Brain and Make Your Ideas Stick ,” which outlines some key psychological impediments to creative business thinking and change: Just use the data metrics. Avoid the tendency to fix blame and look for excuses. Failure to learn.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Email readers, continue here.] Metrics and management: What might be the first indication the company will not be able to achieve its goals and objectives? On the flip side of success, which companies or individuals are most likely to want to buy whatever is left of the company if it is unsuccessful?

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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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socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2020

The company said its data, from the Triton Webcast Metrics streaming measurement service showed a 14% increase in the share of streaming attributable to News/Talk formatted radio stations, which grew from a 29% share to 33%. READ MORE>>.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review News Report Metrics 124

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 6, 2018

There is no scientific proof, no metric to measure the full meaning of “good.” (He lost the suit and paid both sides’ fees.). My unscientific conclusion. And I have come to conclude that “good guys” (men and women) do finish first. and no special acknowledgement from any “good-watching” organization. Even without these, I am sure of this.

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