Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2018

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. Waste in a startup is any activity that spends resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Productive processes start with a plan, and end with metrics that measure value delivered.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

What I’m talking about here is a level of discipline and skill necessary to collect and analyze the relevant business data, known as metrics. As the end of the year approaches, it’s a good time for every startup to assess the metrics, technology, and platforms they’re using to manage the business. Cost of customer acquisition.

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Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2023

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?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Deliverables and the resources you have to achieve them are two sides of the same equation. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2012

But very few are talking about how to measure your results, and the right metrics for optimizing your marketing environment. Jim Sterne, who has written six books on Internet advertising, marketing, and customer service, tackled this complex world of social media metrics in his book titled " Social Media Metrics."

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 8, 2020

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. That’s likely to be completely unreachable for you with almost any amount of resources. Sources for your data.

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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. Project the future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

These are risks that can be mitigated with the right resources. A smarter risk is to build a plan, with associated greater resources, that will put you in position to expand your product line and keep one step ahead of competitors. Use metrics to measure results of marketing initiatives. Implement a modern real business model.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Create, change, throw out, tweak or put more resources behind those efforts or campaigns that are working. Create metrics for customer acquisition, retention, conversion, reach, or anything that helps you to better understand the effects of your changes to the program. Listening does no good without action.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 30, 2022

More often, you (the leader) set the goal and push for achievement – hopefully establishing a realistic set of strategies and accurate metrics to measure progress along a timeline. Sometimes growth happens without a leader envisioning it, living it daily, evangelizing it to anyone who will listen. But not often.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2021

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. Waste in a startup is any activity that burns resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Productive processes start with a plan, and end with metrics that measure value delivered.

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Berkonomics

MAY 20, 2021

Enterprise time, as opposed to personal time management, is the sum total of resources available to a company expressed in terms of time – time to develop, to debug, to produce, to deploy, to respond to issues, and to make changes in plans that are not working. But first, identify what those critical resources are in your company.

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Berkonomics

MAY 19, 2022

Experian looked at three hundred brands and 21 billion emails – a few more than you or I have as a resource for our marketing intelligence. Although both metrics vary widely between types of audience, you should work to exceed a six percent open rate and two percent click rate for your emails containing sales or marketing information.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Once a new product is launched, a key metric is the ratio of new product sales to overall sales. People are your best innovation resource. Set milestones and meet them.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2019

According to the company, the project includes 61 wind turbines, and will be TEP's largest renewable energy resource. The project is expected to generate enough energy to meet the needs of nearly 100,000 homes, and will help the utility avoid nearly 688,000 metric tons of carbon (CO2) emissions annually. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Elon Musk, who obsesses with metrics and constantly asks for employees to feed him their concerns but makes bold moves on his own. It is fine as a secondary style used in tactical decision–making, when strategic issues are not the focus, and where threats to corporate health or resources are not evident.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2022

As companies grow, they tend to become more structured, to the point of discouraging risk by team members, and using metrics to identify mistakes and allocate bonuses. Internal metrics are great for fixing problems, but industry experts, influencers, and customers are better indicators of future change and trends. Don’t forget these.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Most new businesses need three to five advisors or board members to regularly evaluate progress and resource needs, as well as your own leadership. Before you spend big money on inventory and scale over a wide area, make sure you have finalized your marketing, manufacturing, and distribution resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2010

But very few are talking about how to measure your results, and the right metrics for optimizing your marketing environment. Jim Sterne, who has written six books on Internet advertising, marketing, and customer service, tackled this complex world of social media metrics in his recent book titled " Social Media Metrics."

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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. Use multiple small orders at first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Take accountability for execution by enabling success through resources, attention, and care. Define realistic metrics to keep track of progress. You need metrics to incentivize the right team behaviors. You can provide the discipline and the resources for results. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.

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Berkonomics

JULY 9, 2020

Earliest warning metrics: [Email readers, continue here…] What good is information if you can’t act upon it in a timely manner? Find metrics that will be “leading indicators” of trouble to come. Items in the critical path (bottlenecks): This is one of my focus issues for my workshops, it is so important.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The Port of Los Angeles reported late Friday that it has received a preliminary award of $41M, from the California Air Resource Board (CARB), for a high tech hydrogen fuel cell freight project. According to the Port, the project will help reduce 465 metric tons of greenhouse gas and 0.72 READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

These are risks that can be mitigated with the right resources. A smarter risk is to build a plan, with associated greater resources, that will put you in position to expand your product line and keep one step ahead of competitors. Use metrics to measure results of marketing initiatives. Implement a modern real business model.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Soon after, Netflix’s trans employee resource group began organizing a walkout. Pagels-Minor, the organizer of the walkout and global lead of both the Black and Trans employee resource groups, was fired on Friday. Their termination sparked more backlash against Netflix. “We TechCrunch was able to reach B.

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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?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2022

In the book, Jaffe introduces three new sets of metrics for gauging progress: Medium-term metrics. Later, you can lower the budget as the metrics show results, or apply the remainder to paid media as a follow-on step.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2023

Most business metrics I see compare current performance to your own previous experience, rather than your performance compared to industry standards and competitors. It’s easy to find daily problems to swamp all your resources, such that looking to stave off future competitors is not in your priorities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2023

Their challenge to me is how to integrate innovation into the thinking and process of every team, and measure the “ risk versus reward ” of resources expended. Resources are allocated across multiple business units, but the bulk of the organization still prioritizes the “day job.” Maturing proficiency with innovation metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2021

Since we all have limited resources, and can’t add more hours to the day, the result is usually more things done poorly, rather than a few key things done better than anyone else. Well-articulated goals and metrics. Every advisor and investor will tell you to keep your focus or spotlight. Don’t wait for a crisis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2019

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. Project the future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Metrics and observations while running the existing business become the primary basis for future projections. Efficiency focus strips away resources from innovation. Efficiency focus strips away resources from innovation. The future is extrapolated from internal data analysis. Penalties for management learning experiences.

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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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Berkonomics

MARCH 31, 2016

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. Yes, if you are a bad leader of people, you will lose human resources and frustrate your attempt to reach to goal. There are many roads to Rio, so they say.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

There are hundreds of consultants out there who will take your money for guidance in this area, but I recommend that you start with some free resources on the Internet, or one of the many recent books on this topic. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different. Find the right tools to analyze the ROI.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Once a new product is launched, a key metric is the ratio of new product sales to overall sales. People are your best innovation resource. Set milestones and meet them.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

I'm going to be looking at aspects like: Things to consider before building your MVP Features often overlooked when documenting an MVP for developers Understanding important metrics you want to measure Risks and challenges in developing an MVP. It should be a fun evening with lots of interesting conversation.

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