SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 16, 2017

He will examine the future of Entrepreneurship in new markets, new organizations, new business metrics and entirely new classes of jobs within future Startups. The event will begin with a Keynote Presentation from Preston McAfee, Chief Economist and CVP of Microsoft.

CalTech 100

CalTech Entrepreneur Startup Metrics 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 16, 2017

He will examine the future of Entrepreneurship in new markets, new organizations, new business metrics and entirely new classes of jobs within future Startups. The event will begin with a Keynote Presentation from Preston McAfee, Chief Economist and CVP of Microsoft.

CalTech 100

CalTech Entrepreneur Startup Metrics 100

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

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 the amount of marketing to create that much dedicated traffic to our site. A personal story of a pivot – Tyson style.

Summary 156

Summary Metrics Class Email 156

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

” For the company’s customers, MetaCX provides a dashboard that includes outcomes, the collaboration, metrics tracked as part of the relationship and all the metrics around that are part of that engagement layer,” says McCorkle. . “It is API embeddable and we have a full user experience layer.”

Chief Technology Officer 145

Chief Technology Officer SaaS Metrics Customer 145

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Further Reading.

Tips 365

Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam’s vision was to build a world-class “reverse logistics” company that could be as ambitious as Amazon has been in delivering goods to our houses. When companies get ready to add scale it’s important to bring in industry experts who bring real-world experiences from world-class companies that you aren’t inventing things for the first time.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

For investors, it gives them a dash board of key metrics, and ensures those investors stay in the loop. We've had a class of people who have gone on to start fantastic companies, such as LinkedIn, YouTube, Yelp, and Yammer. Who would find this most useful? Jackson: It's actually two audiences, both the entrepreneur and investor.

Southern California 243

Southern California Entrepreneur Software Review Yammer 243

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. When did you create the business? That allowed me to take a summer to develop the new idea, and transform it into a business. Finally, what's next for KarmaGoat?

UCLA 256

UCLA Startup Ideas Help 256

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. Don’t stand still.

Startup 156

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 156

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. It’s awesome. Foursquare.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Bring in an experienced Board and world-class leaders. Explosive growth to an enterprise normally requires a scalable sales model, a well-documented process with incentives, training, and metrics for tracking and management. In fact, it’s highly unlikely that you as the Founder will survive.

Startup 151

Startup Course Sales Entrepreneur 151

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

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. However, it's worth noting that the Calendar view is only available to customers on Trello's Business Class and Enterprise plans — not the Free plan.

Software Review 138

Software Review Guide Technical Review Class 138

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Technology is not the solution per se , but it provides the key enablement, drivers, and support for the required flexibility, integration, communication, metrics, and affordability that are required in the workplace today. All must feel that they are committed to the same goals, and part of the same team – not second-class citizens.

Coach 132

Coach Satisfaction Startup Organization 132

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

These show a focus on the business elements required for success, and metrics for ensuring accountability, management control, and feedback along the way. As an investor, I have seen many great ideas fail by the wrong entrepreneur, and other less grandiose ones sail to success by world-class entrepreneurs.

Ideas 140

Ideas Entrepreneur Equity Resource 140

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2020

It’s easy for part-timers to make excuses that other priorities caused you to miss milestones, but predictable results and metrics in this mode are even more critical than for full-time members. Don’t wait for anyone to pay your way to class, or give you time off for training. Set realistic milestones and take them seriously.

Startup 150

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Metrics 150

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Also, I consider ways to find and recruit world class team members and strategies for talking with investors--although mainly I focus on the product because ultimately everything starts with that. I'm working quite a bit with startups who are leveraging social media, but I'm finding it hard to predict success and metrics.

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2023

You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. Don’t stand still.

Startup 112

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 112

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Sometimes I see statements like “A world-class CEO will be joining us after funding.” Financial forecast and metrics. Include Advisory Board members and key industry people connections.

Competition 116

Competition Metrics Startup Sales 116

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Sometimes I see statements like “A world-class CEO will be joining us after funding.” Financial forecast and metrics. Include Advisory Board members and key industry people connections.

Competition 113

Competition Metrics Startup Invest 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Although we will do roughly one class a year, that''s 10 or so companies under the accelerator, seed stage model -- but we don''t really limit to three months in-and-out. Increasingly, our conviction is that three months is not long enough to do anything. When we look at companies, the simplest way to think of it is product-market-fit.

Incubator 187

Incubator Southern California Startup Ideas 187

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Yes, we all know that stories of Facebook, Snapchat and Uber where the founders had either board control or super voting rights by class structure but this is actually the exception and you shouldn’t blow up a good financing option over this issue. If your metric move immediate up-and-to-the-right? But it’s quite rare.

Startup 236

Startup Venture Capital Tips Capital 236

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

This is a new class of software that can adapt in real time to market changes. Live data also requires metrics and infrastructure that can interpret and evaluate the data, and smart businesses must develop these in the algorithms they use in their data-intelligence engines. Record live data in full for all internal business elements.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Metrics Commerce Software 84

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2012

You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. Don’t stand still.

Startup 96

Startup Writing Metrics Marketing 96

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

We also provide the consumer a slew of tools, that will help them upload their resume and manage their online identity, plus we also have a resume builder function, detailed metrics on exactly who is viewing their resume, and the ability to create and manage multiple versions of their resume. Are those resume public or private?

Startup 140

Startup Yahoo Sites Oversee.net 140

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. Don’t stand still.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 93

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2011

You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. Don’t stand still.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur Startup Writing Metrics 91

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. And we’re using both our data science team and our creative team to build out and optimize on the front end around these quick metrics to get things moving.

Commerce 211

Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2015

Set your own metrics and rewards to map to results. Most startups don’t have the time or resources to send team members to formal training classes, either in-house or off-site. A common refrain I hear from team members in over their heads is how many hours they work and how busy they are. This doesn’t work in a startup.

Startup 99

Startup Mentor Layoffs News 99

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2023

It’s easy for part-timers to make excuses that other priorities caused you to miss milestones, but predictable results and metrics in this mode are even more critical than for full-time members. Don’t wait for anyone to pay your way to class, or give you time off for training. Set realistic milestones and take them seriously.

Startup 110

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Metrics 110

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

We select ten per class, and help those startups connect with mentors and other people in that local environment who can be helpful to the business. That worked well enough, we did another class in 2008 with another 10 companies, and in 2009 we expanded to Boston. The focus is on helping the startup.

Startup 100

Startup Los Angeles Mentor Class 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2014

It’s easy for part-timers to make excuses that other priorities caused you to miss milestones, but predictable results and metrics in this mode are even more critical than for full-time members. Don’t wait for anyone to pay your way to class, or give you time off for training. Set realistic milestones and take them seriously.

Startup 109

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Metrics 109

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2018

You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. Don’t stand still.

Startup 81

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 81

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It’s easy for part-timers to make excuses that other priorities caused you to miss milestones, but predictable results and metrics in this mode are even more critical than for full-time members. Don’t wait for anyone to pay your way to class, or give you time off for training. Set realistic milestones and take them seriously.

Ideas 102

Ideas Entrepreneur Tips Startup 102

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2016

It’s easy for part-timers to make excuses that other priorities caused you to miss milestones, but predictable results and metrics in this mode are even more critical than for full-time members. Don’t wait for anyone to pay your way to class, or give you time off for training. Set realistic milestones and take them seriously.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Metrics 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2019

Technology is not the solution per se , but it provides the key enablement, drivers, and support for the required flexibility, integration, communication, metrics, and affordability that are required in the workplace today. All must feel that they are committed to the same goals, and part of the same team – not second-class citizens.

Company 78

Company Companies Coach Satisfaction 78

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Sometimes I see statements like “A world-class CEO will be joining us after funding.” Financial forecast and metrics. Include Advisory Board members and key industry people connections.

Invest 74

Invest Tips Competition Metrics 74

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2017

Technology is not the solution per se , but it provides the key enablement, drivers, and support for the required flexibility, integration, communication, metrics, and affordability that are required in the workplace today. All must feel that they are committed to the same goals, and part of the same team – not second-class citizens.

Satisfaction 67

Satisfaction Coach Startup Organization 67