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Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 18, 2022
Instead of sizing up new opportunities and actively courting every new customer, you start worrying about cutting costs, repeatable processes , and overtaking known competitors. As a consultant, I hate to see you lose that startup focus on innovation, change, and customers.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 17, 2022
As a startup, you need to use your limited resources to excel at a few core things for your best customers, in order to stand out and get the momentum going. Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth. Customers today have adapted to a fast-moving world, and they expect every business to keep up. Less is more.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 12, 2010
How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Should you have 7 people doing your seed round and why Ron Conway is the S&P 500 of Venture Capital (this discussion starts at minute 59). Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues].
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. Lesson: “To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.”
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 17, 2010
We caught up with Zach James and Rich Raddon , co-founders of MOVIECLIPS, to learn more about the company and also hear about the firm's funding round. Our metrics show that when people watch chips, they increase their tendency to want to watch that feature length film. I ran the Los Angeles Film Festival for a decade.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 14, 2012
Within the startup realm, there is a big difference between having an innovative product versus an innovative business. Some startups have a new technology, but stick to a tried-and-true business model. The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. Granting of autonomy first requires extending trust.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 23, 2015
Berger suggests nine key questions, which I have adapted for entrepreneurs and startups, from his focus on existing companies. Every startup should start with a set of values that would fit the definition of a good cause. Plan to make it the best experiment that you can, with metrics to focus on the “why,” as much as “what.”
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