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.

CTO Hire 175

CTO Hire Startup Metrics eHarmony 175

Berkonomics

AUGUST 15, 2013

If your business has no trade with Japan that could be affected by arbitrage, early shipments or other tactics that take advantage of the moving value of these currencies, that statistic is irrelevant to the dashboard – even if interesting to you. Find metrics that will be “leading indicators” of trouble to come.

Metrics 184

Metrics Software Review Statistics Technical Review 184

Berkonomics

JULY 9, 2020

If your business has no trade with Japan that could be affected by arbitrage, early shipments or other tactics that take advantage of the moving value of these currencies, that statistic is irrelevant to the dashboard – even if interesting to you. Find metrics that will be “leading indicators” of trouble to come.

Metrics 156

Metrics Software Review Statistics Technical Review 156

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2020

I agree with the classic book by Ros Taylor, “ Creativity at Work: Supercharge Your Brain and Make Your Ideas Stick ,” which outlines some key psychological impediments to creative business thinking and change: Just use the data metrics. Avoid the tendency to fix blame and look for excuses. Failure to learn.

Metrics 157

Metrics Demand Statistics Sales 157

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

In the startup world, even the best-laid plans are probably wrong, so there is a need to be able to launch fast, have metrics in place to measure progress, learn from real customer feedback, and pivot as required. First you need to investigate industry norms and third-party statistics to understand what is possible and likely.

Startup 162

Startup Metrics Ideas Entrepreneur 162

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. You spend the months influencing the influencers.

Social Media 135

Social Media Framework Media Metrics 135

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. Use statistical tools often to validate your assumptions.

Metrics 81

Metrics Demand Statistics Sample 81

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Startups should seek to continually improve performance through statistical analysis and predictive monitoring.

Startup 126

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 126

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2023

I agree with the classic book by Ros Taylor, “ Creativity at Work: Supercharge Your Brain and Make Your Ideas Stick ,” which outlines some key psychological impediments to creative business thinking and change: Just use the data metrics. Avoid the tendency to fix blame and look for excuses. Failure to learn.

Marketing 119

Marketing Metrics Demand Statistics 119

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2014

I agree with the book by Ros Taylor, “ Creativity at Work: Supercharge Your Brain and Make Your Ideas Stick ,” which outlines some key psychological impediments to creative business thinking and change: Just use the data metrics. Avoid the tendency to fix blame and look for excuses. Failure to learn. Experience is inevitable; learning is not.

Entrepreneur 113

Entrepreneur Metrics Demand Statistics 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2013

I agree with the new book by Ros Taylor, “ Creativity at Work: Supercharge Your Brain and Make Your Ideas Stick ,” which outlines some key psychological impediments to creative business thinking and change: Just use the data metrics. Avoid the tendency to fix blame and look for excuses. Failure to learn.

Metrics 110

Metrics Entrepreneur Demand Statistics 110

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Competitor statistics are the domain of analysts, financiers, and shareholders, so naturally it is attractive for companies to focus on them primarily. Metrics and observations while running the existing business become the primary basis for future projections. The future is extrapolated from internal data analysis.

Startup 128

Startup Company Companies Statistics 128

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Startups should seek to continually improve performance through statistical analysis and predictive monitoring.

Startup 106

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 106

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t survive. The ultimate skills, which lead to innovation and totally new processes, usually come from experimentation and special studies.

Startup 116

Startup Training Statistics Summary 116

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Competitor statistics are the domain of analysts, financiers, and shareholders, so naturally it is attractive for companies to focus on them primarily. Metrics and observations while running the existing business become the primary basis for future projections. The future is extrapolated from internal data analysis.

Startup 120

Startup Statistics IBM IBM 120

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Startups should seek to continually improve performance through statistical analysis and predictive monitoring.

Technology 97

Technology Social Media Startup Entertainment 97

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Use data analysis and metrics to measure for results. Based on statistical data , it typically takes eight months for a newly hired employee to reach full productivity, and that doesn’t include hiring. Efficiency in the workplace is the time it takes to do something, but it can ignore work quality and customer impact.

Tool 121

Tool Statistics Entrepreneur Metrics 121

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Startups should seek to continually improve performance through statistical analysis and predictive monitoring.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 99

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

These metrics-application rely on our need to know our “value” and will only continue to perpetuate the dilution of online engagement. This may sound crazy, but there’s a valid reason for bashing this type of statistic. Klout, PeerIndex, Kred, and even Empire Avenue need to go away. ” It’s that easy.

Social Network 106

Social Network Metrics Technical Review Sites 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2014

Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t survive. The ultimate skills, which lead to innovation and totally new processes, usually come from experimentation and special studies.

Entrepreneur 110

Entrepreneur Startup Training Statistics 110

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

To keep you out of this statistic, I recommend the following steps to all aspiring business owners as they step into this new and exciting world of managing your own business: Solidify your funding plan before you start spending. Define key metrics to measure progress and success.

Social Media 98

Social Media Metrics Media Tool 98

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

We're working on how quickly we can provision servers, and what those metrics are, and it's been fantastic. Those are just personal observations, however, as we don't have enough data to statistically understand it, though we'll be looking at things like time of day, gender, geography, and types of posts.

Social Media 203

Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t succeed. The ultimate skills, which lead to innovation and totally new processes, usually come from experimentation and special studies.

Startup 94

Startup Marketing Training Statistics 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2019

Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t survive. The ultimate skills, which lead to innovation and totally new processes, usually come from experimentation and special studies.

Startup 94

Startup Training Statistics Summary 94

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t survive. The ultimate skills, which lead to innovation and totally new processes, usually come from experimentation and special studies.

Startup 93

Startup Training Statistics Summary 93

Steve Reich

APRIL 11, 2012

You are fanatical about metrics for your online business. You study metrics and user behavior. John is as relentless about metrics in hiring as you are in your business. Repeatedly using a the process will allow you to accumulate meaningful statistics over time. You A-B test everything. Can you say the same for hiring?

Google 45

Google Metrics Statistics Study 45

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To help companies make informed business decisions, we are building statistical models that show information at higher-than-the-platform level. 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

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 29, 2014

Using transactional business data like simple website traffic, sales metrics, social interactions, ad conversions, and employee performance statistics, Freshplum helps firms forecast demand, optimize the timing of supply shipments, and cut prizes among others resulting into revenue growth.

Sales 77

Sales Statistics IBM IBM 77

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2010

Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t succeed. The ultimate skills, which lead to innovation and totally new processes, usually come from experimentation and special studies.

Startup 78

Startup Training Statistics Summary 78

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2017

When we looked at their loss numbers, we knew the type of statistical analysis we were doing could solve that problem, too, which is why we started the company. When you look at the metrics, in some cases, the rules-based systems will have 200 to 300 to 1 false positive rates.

Artificial Inteligence 124

Artificial Inteligence Software Review San Diego .Net 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2016

I agree with the classic book by Ros Taylor, “ Creativity at Work: Supercharge Your Brain and Make Your Ideas Stick ,” which outlines some key psychological impediments to creative business thinking and change: Just use the data metrics. Avoid the tendency to fix blame and look for excuses. Failure to learn.

Metrics 60

Metrics Demand Statistics Sales 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2019

These authors present 20+ years of research, including case studies and metrics, showing how culture really makes or breaks your business. Feelings are known to statistically produce the biggest impact on future performance, as well as morale. I have found that while many of their lessons may seem obvious, others are not so intuitive.

Competition 76

Competition Coach Case Study Statistics 76

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Startups should seek to continually improve performance through statistical analysis and predictive monitoring.

Startup 55

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 55

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We want hard data and metrics – we want proof. The flip side to the hand wavers are the compulsive footnoters who provide every statistic available or lengthy background information. with actual data and metrics. The #TrustMeFail. The Hand Waver”). We can’t evaluate an application without specifics. Q: How big is your market?

Tips 70

Tips Startup Statistics Metrics 70

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2017

Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t survive. The ultimate skills, which lead to innovation and totally new processes, usually come from experimentation and special studies.

Startup 56

Startup Training Statistics Summary 56

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2018

Strategic decisions need to be based on statistically valid samples of complete and consistent data, relative to the decision at hand. Define metrics to assess roll-out progress and value. Tie your implementation to metrics that will allow you to determine whether or not your decision truly achieves your goal.

Tips 51

Tips Metrics Sample Statistics 51

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2017

Statistics show that the failure rate for new businesses within the first four years is fifty percent or greater, even with companies that have a large startup budget. Start by setting some specific growth targets, and implement metrics to chart your progress. Unfortunately, most of these are never able to declare long-term success.

Social Media 57

Social Media Search Engine Optimization Startup Customer 57