Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Less is more.

Social Media 87

Social Media Metrics Customer Custom 87

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2012

Netflix, which is known for its creative culture, tells employees to “Say what you think, even if it is controversial. A successful business is still all about execution, so you still need clear milestones, checkpoints, and metrics to keep you on track. Granting of autonomy first requires extending trust. Encourage courage.

Startup 100

Startup Competition Netflix Ideas 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2013

Netflix, which is known for its creative culture, tells employees to “Say what you think, even if it is controversial. A successful business is still all about execution, so you still need clear milestones, checkpoints, and metrics to keep you on track. Granting of autonomy first requires extending trust. Encourage courage.

Product 92

Product Competition Netflix Ideas 92

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2011

Netflix, which is known for its creative culture, tells employees to “Say what you think, even if it is controversial. A successful business is still all about execution, so you still need clear milestones, checkpoints, and metrics to keep you on track. Granting of autonomy first requires extending trust. Encourage courage.

Startup 92

Startup Competition Netflix Ideas 92

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Netflix, which is known for its creative culture, tells employees to “Say what you think, even if it is controversial. A successful business is still all about execution, so you still need clear milestones, checkpoints, and metrics to keep you on track. Granting of autonomy first requires extending trust. Encourage courage.

Companies 90

Companies Company Competition Netflix 90

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2015

Plan to make it the best experiment that you can, with metrics to focus on the “why,” as much as “what.” Business leaders from Google, Netflix, and others have uncertainty built into their DNA. How can we create the best test, and assume the need for pivot? If we brainstorm in questions, will lightning strike?

Startup 102

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Netflix 102

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Our metrics show that when people watch chips, they increase their tendency to want to watch that feature length film. We've seen the proliferation of streaming through Netflix, Amazon, and others, and as people get into the streaming features business, that income can help make up the income being lost in DVD sales.

Startup 190

Startup Los Angeles Content Hollywood 190

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2014

Plan to make it the best experiment that you can, with metrics to focus on the “why,” as much as “what.” Business leaders from Google, Netflix, and others have uncertainty built into their DNA. How can we create the best test, and assume the need for pivot? If we brainstorm in questions, will lightning strike?

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Ideas Netflix IBM 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2023

For example, we all remember when Blockbuster realized too late that Netflix was stealing customers by offering videos online rather than via DVDs, but even then they were unable to adapt their processes and their thinking. Thus they are blindsided and try to react quickly when a new competitor starts stealing customers.

Metrics 71

Metrics Training Netflix Resource 71

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Less is more.

Competition 65

Competition Social Media Metrics Customer 65

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2018

In top current companies, such as Google, Apple, and Netflix, cultural strategies that include greater employee freedom and fostering creativity are the norm. Establish metrics on the culture, as well as the product. These metrics need the same top management attention as customer retention and sales metrics.

Metrics 57

Metrics Startup Netflix Customer 57

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Netflix, which is known for its creative culture, tells employees to “Say what you think, even if it is controversial. A successful business is still all about execution, so you still need clear milestones, checkpoints, and metrics to keep you on track. Granting of autonomy first requires extending trust. Encourage courage.

Competition 65

Competition Netflix Ideas Metrics 65

Jason Nazar

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

I’ve been a part of dozens (maybe hundreds) of product launches And in each of these cases I ask my team to put together a simple dashboard of a small set of metrics for our paid and free products that let me know the success of our efforts. For startup entrepreneurs, you can also track these metrics with Google analytics.

Marketing 40

Marketing CPC Metrics .Net 40

Jason Nazar

MAY 1, 2016

I’ve been a part of dozens (maybe hundreds) of product launches And in each of these cases I ask my team to put together a simple dashboard of a small set of metrics for our paid and free products that let me know the success of our efforts. For startup entrepreneurs, you can also track these metrics with Google analytics.

Marketing 40

Marketing CPC Metrics .Net 40

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Plan to make it the best experiment that you can, with metrics to focus on the “why,” as much as “what.” Business leaders from Google, Netflix, and others have uncertainty built into their DNA. How can we create the best test, and assume the need for pivot? If we brainstorm in questions, will lightning strike?

Ideas 58

Ideas Entrepreneur Netflix IBM 58

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Netflix as a service has always prided itself on movie recommendations that are tailored specifically to you plus user ratings on the quality of films. Netflix needs to segment their customers and charge each what is appropriate. Perhaps they should have just created business units called: Netflix DVD & Netflix Streaming.

Netflix 287

Netflix Custom Customer Pricing 287

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

We narrowed it down to key-metrics. Netflix and other online streaming sites caught studios by surprise. NG: We focused largely on search, which we saw was the fundamental for everything we do at Filmzu. That was one of the biggest challenge Rupert had to do technically. We focused on the main things people are looking for.

Content 81

Content Entertainment Startup Los Angeles 81

InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2019

Even when it was published on Netflix, I had no desire to see The Founder movie, as it was clear from the film’s preview that it was yet another, “businessperson gone bad” film. Measure What Matters – The McDonald brothers were dogmatic about tracking metrics. The Founder won’t be available on Netflix forever.

Startup 100

Startup Netflix Entrepreneur Metrics 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix. Our centralization is their achilles heel.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150