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Only those with maniacal focus on results and a willingness not to engage in every activity achieve extraordinary results. I think of activities as a funnel. The modern world is filled with constant distractions. As executives we’re all seemingly accessible at any moment to anybody via email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Text.
And while of course the founders & management deserve all the credit for Maker’s success and will no doubt get their accolades in the press, from an investor perspective, Dana & I were hugely active in the company for years behind the scenes in recruiting, PR, product strategy, M&A, etc. I’m already back to work.
But you do need to find a way to do activities that are more scalable. These are important leveling-up activities but the CEO is often still up at 10pm f **g around with QuickBooks entries. Which other activities will get less attention than your negotiation over how the year-3 exit clause on your biz dev relationship will work?
And while over the past few years we have been laser-focused on cash returns, we are equally planting seeds for our next 10–15 years of returns by actively investing in today’s market. In fact, I am still active on two boards where I first invested in 2009. How do we plan to do it?
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A : Activation - What % have a "happy" initial experience? Startup Metrics with Dave McClure Dave McClure has a great presentation on Startup Metrics where he points to some additional metrics that are useful to consider: A : Acquisition - Where / what channels do users come from? R : Retention - Do they come back & re-visit over time?
Define more activities as unimportant. This classification of activities requires an overt effort, but pays back in productivity. Thinking in threes allows you to keep important activities on top of mind, and better manage your time, energy, and attention. Strive for imperfection on key activities. Move away from them.
There will be other chances to get the timing down, but for the first concert in Los Angeles, concertgoers were prompted to launch the SNKRS app and try and snag a pair of the limited edition shoes well before the activation actually went live. The team at Nike said the concert’s late start caused the miscue. ”
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I’ll still work with Kara managing the next few funds, but I’ve already been pushing for our firm to do more to diversify our activities and this will allow me to focus on some of that. He’s helped me run the Upfront holding company activities for all of these years and will continue to do so. Does This Mean You’re Retiring?
[Email readers, continue here…] The format also calls for the CEO to examine his calendar over time and report classes of activities by percentage of total time spent, so that the group may add comments about use of CEO time to the critique. How much time do you devote to each type of activity?
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Actively solicit input from trusted members of your team. These outside activities may be sports, non-profits or family activities where you can change roles, rely on someone else for leadership, or simply relax and recharge. Actively improve your charismatic image. Don’t isolate yourself.
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It is natural for executives and entrepreneurs with lots on their plate and little extra time – to just keep up the same activities that have made the company a success. Keep on doing what works and that grows the company (rinse and repeat) and actively work on the rest? Innovation should be a goal….
Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Volunteer to help out with entrepreneur activities at your local university. All universities love and need to get help from people in the “real world” for coaching and judging activities in their Entrepreneurship and MBA programs. Attend an investment conference.
We've built an artficial intelligence platform, which tells you who is more active than others, based on their behavior. So it sounds like developers really need to try to be active on these public sites, for any visibility? Shane Bernstein: It's really hard to game this, you just have to be more active in a community.
The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. Every team needs to understand how their activities relate to customer revenue. Key activities. It forces you to bridge the gap between idea and execution.
Listening to customers requires your help in rewarding rather than penalizing that activity, and being the role model to follow. As an example, customer-centric may mean interacting on social media, or actively taking the customer's position in a dispute, rather than the company position. Find people who enjoy being problem solvers.
Actively seek and learn from the counsel of smart people. Make sure you actively interact with and show appreciation for people smarter than you, even if they don’t always agree with you. Don’t forget to maintain a healthy balance between business and personal demands, including family, sleep, and time off for enjoyable activities.
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By smoothing the utility’s signal into a very sensitive AC current wave (sine wave), my sensitive equipment and energy star certified electronics are actively protected for the first time. I discovered that this is more than a battery backup. And I have 35-40 minutes of power in the same size case as my old backup.
We also initiated a vulnerability assessment, including the review of server access logs to detect any unrecognized network activity or unusual authentication failures.” ” Trenkle declined to say when the cloud server became active, and why the allegedly legacy server had test results as recently as last month.
Able to balance right-brain and left-brain activities. Great entrepreneurs seek out critical customers and industry experts, and actively listen, but are not afraid to trust their own judgment as well. Overall, the entrepreneur mentality is a state of mind that enjoys the activities and requirements of starting a business.
According to the classic book, “ One Second Ahead ,” by noted authority on training the mind, Rasmus Hougaard, there are some basic rules that can really help you manage your focus and awareness in all work activities. The key to cultivating joy is to anticipate at least some activities you enjoy daily.
The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Waste in a startup is any activity that burns resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Focus on activities rather than results.
” Earlier this year, the company partnered with DoorDash on a similar activation for a concert to raise money for the Boys and Girls Club as part of a broad celebrity effort to raise money to alleviate food insecurity for families affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. and the work with Dr.
It is the excitement of activity that generates more and better output for most, not the isolation of silence. The change to a near silent environment is so startling that, many times, employees express a bit of resentment or even depression, masked by the common statement that “it is so much easier to get work done without the noise.”
At the early stage investment firm Fink said he was responsible for marketing activities for companies including Dollar Shave Club, DogVacay, SpringRole, Wishbone, and Hello Society over the six years he worked at the company. Neddenriep, served as the chief technology officer for Science — a role he’s continuing at Postie.
The format also calls for the CEO to examine their calendar over time and report classes of activities by percentage of total time spent, so that the group may add comments about use of that person’s valuable time to the critique. How much time do you devote to each type of activity?
PR is an insanely valuable activity in early-stage companies. I’ve been having this PR discussion with three separate portfolio companies at once so I thought I’d just publish my thoughts more broadly. Very few investors understand this and even fewer startups.
Of course triangulation is a mathematics term that is used in sailing and other activities to help you better navigate when you don’t have your bearings. I like to use the shorthand “triangulate” to symbolize asking multiple people for their opinions to get a better perspective on the route you should take.
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Which partners are active and which are less active? You can’t try to meet the executive team at Bird to understand the Upfront Ventures partnership dynamics because they’re too damn busy dealing with explosive growth. What do you want to know? How many partners are there? Who in the firm has “pull” to get deals done when they want to?
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