Berkonomics

JULY 7, 2022

Email readers, continue here…]. 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. Second: strategic thinking and planning. How do you measure tactical gains? The post OK.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Email updates frequently. And as Rob points out – if you email members with short updates more frequently they are more up to speed when you do need them to weigh in. Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. Make your emails actionable. ” Or, “I sent u an email.

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Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2015

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. Nurturing stage email performance. The fuel for any good demand generation program is relevant, buyer-centric content.

Metrics 101

Metrics Marketing Demand Paramount 101

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

And 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. Email readers, continue here.] So what does your business playbook look like?

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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. Email readers, continue here…] Note that these are expansive “junior” goals that, if achieved, would certainly move the company forward toward a larger financial goal.

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Organization Metrics Demand Resource 275

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

In a funding round with 1 or 2 VCs and 15-20 angels or 4-6 seed funds if you gave every investor you financial information and performance metrics your proprietary information would increase in its probability of leaking out. There is a reason for this.

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Venture Capital Seed Funding Email Blogging 352

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. Email readers, continue here.]

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Metrics Startup Marketing Demand 239

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. Bringing us to today – Viewers or profit? Great revenue projections from a small user base lead to worries over sustainability.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

What are your key Startup Metrics ? Will you validate new members’ email addresses and/or phone numbers? Do they generate emails or push notifications? Email / SMS Does your application send out transactional emails or SMS messages? Analytics/Metrics What key startup metrics will you need to track?

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Develop Development Technical Review SEO 520

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. Email readers, continue here.]

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

Email Address Almost every startup wants and needs email as a means of notifying users. Take a look at Startup Metrics. In the meantime, I will say that most startups will want to have an email address for users. do not provide access to the email address. For good reason, twitter, Facebook, etc.

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Google Startup Yahoo Email 292

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

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. And pause to celebrate each new first or top score.

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Metrics Competition Coach Email 176

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. Nurturing stage email performance. The fuel for any good demand generation program is relevant, buyer-centric content.

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Marketing Invest Demand Metrics 174

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Noah has what I believe he called “Thank You metrics”. He bases the success of his company on 2 things; one, how many “thank you” emails he gets per day for being an awesome company and two, how many people sign up for the AppSumo email list. His email list is everything. Some of you may be thinking, ‘Emails!

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Metrics Email Startup Technical Review 87

Berkonomics

AUGUST 15, 2013

Earliest warning metrics: 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. Think of labor efficiency (future product or service delivery impairment) or warehouse inventory (sales slowdown, supply chain management problems) as examples.

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Metrics Software Review Technical Review Statistics 184

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2014

My email back to him was a version of. I got an email recently from a VC who had invested in a company a small amount in a seed round. He called me 15 months later excited to show me his metrics and wanted to talk about his A round. “This is a very accomplished executive in his industry across more than 20 years.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Email 333

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. Why bother with this ? And at some early stages, a bookkeeper can prepare such information.

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Metrics Training Report Tool 156

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Email readers, continue here…] Second: measure the results of delegation. There are many types of metrics, some very easy to manage. Worse yet, failures to delegate make the leader the principal bottleneck in the flow of work through an organization. A great leader learns to delegate, first.

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Organization Metrics Training Course 220

SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Many of the factors are not obvious and include building mystery to drive margin, why boring B2B companies often win but are challenging in other ways, how bootstrapping wins, integrating metrics from the start and many other similar lessons. Startups provide introductions and Tony and fellow panelists provide feedback in real-time.

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CTO Hire Startup Metrics eHarmony 175

SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. It’s a weekly email we send to AngelList, with 3 high-quality startups who want intros.

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Pricing Acquisition Customer Custom 150

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

For example, if you are trying to determine viral coefficient (see Startup Metrics ), then the focus should be around those aspects of the MVP. Just make note of it in the document and/or in an email when you send it. It's important to know where the business is today and what you are really trying to achieve.

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Develop Development Technical Review CTO Coach 354

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, we investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. Email readers, continue here.] But, when the bubble burst in 2000, most of us quickly grew up.

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Metrics Sites Advertising Web 207

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] The second step: Take feedback seriously. 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. And most of us are not Steve Jobs.

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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

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? Liquidity event: Name at least five companies that might be ready to acquire the enterprise if successful.

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Invest Metrics Funding Entrepreneur 264

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Email delivery platform SendGrid , which has significant operations in Orange County, said today that it has launched a new app on the iPhone and iPad. SendGrid said the app allows users access to their Sendgrid account and metrics. sendgrid email delivery software iphone ipad mobile smartphone' READ MORE>>.

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Orange County Email Metrics Platform 100

Berkonomics

AUGUST 16, 2010

Many early stage CEO’s believe they can delegate design and creation of metrics, flash reports, analytical reports and more to their bookkeepers. Email readers continue here.] To expect a bookkeeper to provide analytical planning is to ask for something they often cannot provide, except in a cursory way. Why the discussion?

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Metrics Training Report Tool 136

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 6, 2018

There is no scientific proof, no metric to measure the full meaning of “good.” Email readers, continue here…] Surely the ruthless more often win in the short run. And I have come to conclude that “good guys” (men and women) do finish first. and no special acknowledgement from any “good-watching” organization.

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Entrepreneur Metrics Email Organization 180

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.

Metrics 156

Metrics Software Review Technical Review Statistics 156

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Email readers, continue here…] Measure the results of your changed program in as many ways as possible. 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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Marketing Metrics Education Resource 156

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Email readres, continue here.] There is no scientific proof, no metric to measure the full meaning of “good.” What is important is that stakeholders (people working for and with the entrepreneur) accept the entrepreneur for his or her good intentions, sense of fairness and willingness to listen. Even without these, I am sure of this.

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Metrics Entrepreneur Email Organization 168

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2018

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. Nurturing stage email performance. The fuel for any good demand generation program is relevant, buyer-centric content.

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Metrics Demand Marketing Paramount 57

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. Email readers, continue here…] So, what does your business playbook look like?

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Coach Metrics Training Course 120

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

This post was prompted by an email exchange I had with a young entrepreneur. 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 VC’s are tough customers.

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Startup Venture Capital Invest Slides 360

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Kai taught me that the key metric to whether a sales process is going well is “engagement.” I often send the introduction email and then a second email to the reference to say, “This reference is really important to me. There is nothing you can provide in a data room that you couldn’t send via email.

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Email 336

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. I would likely open up your deck, read it again and begin contemplating your company again.

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Funding Venture Capital IP Email 239

Berkonomics

JANUARY 30, 2014

What happens to careful planning, sure-fire metrics, quality test scenarios, market research, a good business plan – all in place before pulling the trigger of a new opportunity. Email readers, continue here.] So why do so many business-book authors stress the opposite behavior? Ready, FIRE, aim. And who is right here?

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Metrics Ideas 189