SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes?

CTO Coach 231

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Start with defining and publishing innovation goals at the company level, and then ask for specific objectives from every organization. Decide what to measure and create metrics. In a large organization, online surveys and questionnaires are helpful. Design your invisible competitive advantage. Ideas are the beginning.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? What are the biggest areas of technical risk?

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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. But these are all individual roads to Rio – which is the stated goal for the organization. What is your leadership end game goal?

Resource 156

Resource Satisfaction Metrics Course 156

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The best CEOs realize that they need to build organizations and hierarchy and delegate decision making while still holding their teams accountable. Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. In today’s competitive world, with its accelerating rate of change, no competitive advantage lasts long. The only sustainable competitive advantage is creativity. Creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage.

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Competition Netflix Ideas Metrics 135

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. So naturally we’re pushing for him to drop critical information when their paths cross organically. Further Reading.

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Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Start with defining and publishing innovation goals at the company level, and then ask for specific objectives from every organization. Decide what to measure and create metrics. In a large organization, online surveys and questionnaires are helpful. Design your invisible competitive advantage. Ideas are the beginning.

Startup 97

Startup Metrics Competition Organization 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2020

Stroh, which details the principles and metrics to follow for fostering innovation in any organization. As the pace of change in the marketplace increases, innovation is required at a faster pace in every organization, old and new, to stay competitive. by Patrick J. Catching up later is not a viable strategy for survival.

Startup 138

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2021

In my experience, a level of disagreement among key team members is a sign of a healthy organization, allowing it to survive and prosper in this age of multiple disruptive trends. Of course, any highly emotional and unmanaged conflict can certainly lead to chaos and a dysfunctional organization.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. And then bit by bit, we grew the organization. We work with large brands that have a strong organic following on social media; and their question is: “Hey, Greg, why should I spend more money if I would have acquired those users anyway?”

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Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

I’m not suggesting that you model your startup after the complex corporate organizations you hated in your last job, but there are at least eight key functions and activities that every investor expects to find in a startup proposal with any real potential to change the world. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

Entrepreneur 131

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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. But these are all individual roads to Rio – which is the stated goal for the organization. That requires real thought and strategies.

Resource 120

Resource Satisfaction Metrics Course 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Your story should include childhood initiatives, industry organization leadership roles, and online influencer organizations that you support. These show a focus on the business elements required for success, and metrics for ensuring accountability, management control, and feedback along the way.

Ideas 140

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

By linking the activities to P&L--not click rates, or cost per sale, or cost per lead, or brand awareness, which are all soft metrics--we are able to give our customers ammunition to take to their board or to finance, and prove the true effectiveness of their marketing and the true effectiveness of the agencies involved.

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2021

Well-articulated goals and metrics. Maintain an intimate knowledge of the competition. No organization, large or small, can manage more than five goals and priorities without becoming unfocused and ineffective. Build it at the start and don’t ever lose it. Study their moves and engage your team for an analysis of updates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Many risks can be managed or calculated to improve growth or provide a competitive edge, while others, like skipping quality checks to save money, are recipes for failure. Use metrics to measure results of marketing initiatives. There is an old saying that good lawyers run away from risk, while good businessmen run towards risk.

Entrepreneur 129

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2021

The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate. That means keeping all the players and all the organizations centered on what matters amid the crosscurrents of change.

Social Media 143

Social Media Startup Framework Course 143

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. It starts at the top with the founder and CEO, but has to extend quickly to the bottom of the organization. Expedite change reaction.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. The whole point of delegating investment decisions to a GP is to empower them to organize their firm to win deals and get stuff done. Some more on metrics design and quantification. When should you start a company?

Venture Capital 202

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2012

The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. In today’s competitive world, with its accelerating rate of change, no competitive advantage lasts long. The only sustainable competitive advantage is creativity. Creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Startup 100

Startup Competition Netflix Ideas 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Stroh, which details the principles and metrics to follow for fostering innovation in any organization. As the pace of change in the marketplace increases, innovation is required at a faster pace in every organization, old and new, to stay competitive. by Patrick J. Catching up later is not a viable strategy for survival.

Metrics 102

Metrics Startup Organization Demand 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2023

I’m not suggesting that you model your startup after the complex corporate organizations you hated in your last job, but there are at least eight key functions and activities that every investor expects to find in a startup proposal with any real potential to change the world. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

Outsource Development 115

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 115

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It does require leadership at all levels of the organization to find shared values, set clear expectations, attract and develop talent, accelerate execution of a winning strategy, and generate a feeling of alignment, togetherness, and engagement every day. Failure to cascade change success across all teams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In my experience, competition is the biggest challenge here. Even the best solutions require marketing and motivating advocates these days, with the rise of instant global competition, and flood of alternatives available via the Internet. Timing is important, and communication with your customer set is critical.

Activity 108

Activity Satisfaction Metrics Startup 108

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth.

.Net 89

.Net Metrics Competition Template 89

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Many risks can be managed or calculated to improve growth or provide a competitive edge, while others, like skipping quality checks to save money, are recipes for failure. Use metrics to measure results of marketing initiatives. There is an old saying that good lawyers run away from risk, while good businessmen run towards risk.

Resource 121

Resource Metrics Entrepreneur Custom 121

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2023

We all have our favorite metric and our passion, but keeping up with real-world changes and trends seems to be always just out of reach. In my experience, all business metrics are still used too often for people management and accountability, rather than business management. Accurate measurement of the wrong things is not helpful.

Metrics 81

Metrics Demand Statistics Sample 81

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Cyber & nuclear threats, disruptive innovation, and increasing competition for market share will continue to reshape how members view their memberships. This means organizations will require new and different external research to understand what tools they must provide in order to help their members make progress.

Research 140

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Further, based on results from the Sierra-Cedar HR Systems Survey , businesses that use data and tools in their people management, rather than traditional manual processes, see a 79% higher return than other organizations, suggesting the time is ripe for relying on data and analytics. Use data analysis and metrics to measure for results.

Tool 121

Tool Statistics Entrepreneur Metrics 121

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2013

The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. In today’s competitive world, with its accelerating rate of change, no competitive advantage lasts long. The only sustainable competitive advantage is creativity. Creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Product 92

Product Competition Netflix Ideas 92

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Many risks can be managed or calculated to improve growth or provide a competitive edge, while others, like skipping quality checks to save money, are recipes for failure. Use metrics to measure results of marketing initiatives. There is an old saying that good lawyers run away from risk, while good businessmen run towards risk.

Startup 115

Startup Resource Metrics Entrepreneur 115

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Start with defining and publishing innovation goals at the company level, and then ask for specific objectives from every organization. Decide what to measure and create metrics. In a large organization, online surveys and questionnaires are helpful. Design your invisible competitive advantage. Ideas are the beginning.

Startup 81

Startup Metrics Organization Ideas 81

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2011

The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. In today’s competitive world, with its accelerating rate of change, no competitive advantage lasts long. The only sustainable competitive advantage is creativity. Creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Startup 92

Startup Competition Netflix Ideas 92

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Every business team becomes inwardly- focused by default, comparing themselves only emotionally to others they know within the organization. It’s your job as a leader to be the model high performer, quantify the team view with metrics, and expand awareness to the best outside competition and new tools.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Layoffs Social Media Metrics 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2014

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. It starts at the top with the founder and CEO, but has to extend quickly to the bottom of the organization. Expedite change reaction.

Entrepreneur 110

Entrepreneur Startup Training Statistics 110

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2014

Many risks can be managed or calculated to improve growth or provide a competitive edge, while others, like skipping quality checks to save money, are recipes for failure. Use metrics to measure results of marketing initiatives. There is an old saying that good lawyers run away from risk, while good businessmen run towards risk.

Startup 113

Startup Resource Metrics Entrepreneur 113