Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2021

To get you started on the right track, I always recommend the following pragmatic tips that you probably already know, but are always worth re-validating with every new initiative: Quantify how your unique features add value. Build a marketing plan with deliverables and metrics. Passion is necessary, but not sufficient for survival.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it! Leveraging LLMs to help users fill in text, whether it’s by providing starter content, samples, or highly personalized tips, makes their lives easier. Since LLMs can understand text as well as generate it, the tips could be interactive as well as personalized.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

My most read post on marketing tips highlights this – please pay attention to tip #4 – you can’t have great marketing for bad or mediocre products. The team has stated it and has built metrics around key goals for future success. You need product / market fit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Unfortunately, your personal assessment that you have traction probably won’t be convincing to potential investors and partners, so it’s important that you create and track your progress against some metrics. Define metrics on customer feedback and user counts. Count connections with experts, media, and influencers.

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Berkonomics

MAY 19, 2022

Although both metrics vary widely between types of audience, you should work to exceed a six percent open rate and two percent click rate for your emails containing sales or marketing information. Don’t waste your email budget with ineffective communication or hidden offers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Don’t forget the metrics and analytics. Ad hoc coverage by team members in their spare time is a recipe for failure. You need executive buy-in, committed budgets, and education for the whole team on objectives and activities. You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Determine the proper measurement tools and set up the measurement process.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Schedule 1:1 calls 1 week before the meeting to walk each board member through the key issues / performance metrics in the business. Meeting Dynamics (also for VC pitches but also some practical tips for board meetings). Let board members know that you’re not walking through this in the actual meeting. Startup Advice'

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2020

In stable businesses, you get what you reward, so you must incent urgency with metrics for number of proactive projects, expected implementation guidelines, and no failure penalty. Most entrepreneurs remember the sense of urgency they felt in startup mode, but don’t see it in their team today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Include planned measurements and metrics. This is your rollout of the new product offerings, business model updates, and process changes to map to the new understanding of the customer buying process. Start where the customer wants you to be and work backwards.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2019

That means a priority on coaching and mentoring, as well as training and tools, before focusing on results metrics. The best leader personality for larger organizations is one of providing help and resources, rather than extracting performance. Let people make their own decisions wherever possible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It’s easy for part-timers to make excuses that other priorities caused you to miss milestones, but predictable results and metrics in this mode are even more critical than for full-time members. Set realistic milestones and take them seriously. Select a business idea that has a longer runway.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 28, 2016

Although both metrics vary widely between types of audience, you should work to exceed a six percent open rate and two percent click rate for your emails containing sales or marketing information. Don’t waste your email budget with ineffective communication or hidden offers.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

He met with the editors of the three Mac magazines that his customers read and showed them metrics that confirmed that SuperMac's boards were the fastest on the market. "I it might be the spear, but the tip are the people who are trying to sell stuff.". This is a real mistake many marketers make. It's not the sharp end of the spear.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2010

Subjective warrants – I also see warrants given out without hard metrics. I believe that PBW’s should have hard metrics. Anyone have structuring tips? Just don’t give them free. Things like introducing us to clients, they help us close partnership deals where there is not revenue attached, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Financial forecast and metrics. People ask me if they really need ANY business plan, unless they are looking for an outside investor. See where your cashflow bottoms out.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 30, 2012

If you care to learn more about the enchantment process, you may want to watch my interview with Guy HERE , in which he provides a number of enchanting tips and tricks. A/B testing requires marketers to leave their egos and emotions at the door and allow quantifiable metrics to drive their decisions.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I am going to do a whole separate post on independent board members so I won’t belabor it here but here is one important tip?—?there If your metric move immediate up-and-to-the-right? I’ll give you some tips in that other post on how to deal with board observers. But it’s quite rare. Who Should be on Your Startup Board?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The tipping point decision. Proactively sets metrics and track goals. It unleashes an extraordinary verve to take the idea or business to the next level. It tests your capabilities and capacity in various ways, stretching them far beyond your comfort zone and requiring total commitment. Always an evangelist and a good communicator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different. An integrated marketing strategy starts with an overall brand management strategy, delivered through online and offline communications, promotions, and customer engagement vehicles. Your Twitter and YouTube messages better match your print advertising message.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Communicate your values often, and use values-based performance metrics to gauge your results, measure the level of implementation, leadership development, and succession planning. For additional tips and advice, and information about Visa''s small business solutions, follow @VisaSmallBiz and visit [link]. Input = output.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The tipping point decision. Proactively sets metrics and track goals. It unleashes an extraordinary verve to take the idea or business to the next level. It tests your capabilities and capacity in various ways, stretching them far beyond your comfort zone and requiring total commitment. Always an evangelist and a good communicator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

After reviewing her day-by-day recommendations to improve productivity in a single week, I have extrapolated her guidance to ten productivity tips specifically for entrepreneurs to regain that competitive edge: Focus on managing yourself rather than managing others. Define clear goals and metrics for your productivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2013

On a regular basis, at least once a quarter, you need to take a hard look at all your key metrics. The Page serves as a space where small business owners can access educational resources, read success stories from other business owners, engage with peers, and find tips to help businesses run more efficiently. Quality improvements.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Pro tip: take on the mantle of book editor for a major tech publication, and the publishers will mail you books for free. Startups either get three dozen term sheets or none at all, since every firm is walking around with the same frameworks and metrics in their head. Some more on metrics design and quantification.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2018

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. In all cases, there are factors involved that you can’t control, such as regulatory, economic, or environmental.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Focusing on the metrics that ultimately drive the business, often the bottom line, has provided a reality check, a counter-weight to the desire to consume all new technologies. However, a severe budget limitation may tip toward a platform with ready-to-use open source components that can be leveraged as-is or with minimal tweaks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2022

Most are reluctant to tip that balance between hard-won experience versus new thinking that can take them to the next level. Put metrics in place to track decision results. In my role as a mentor, I challenge every business leader to be more open-minded as they face the challenges of change and new competitors entering their space.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2014

The tipping point decision. Proactively sets metrics and track goals. It unleashes an extraordinary verve to take the idea or business to the next level. It tests your capabilities and capacity in various ways, stretching them far beyond your comfort zone and requiring total commitment. Always an evangelist and a good communicator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2017

How does any entrepreneur define the right balance, and then measure their performance against real metrics? It’s difficult to measure the planet and people accounts in any quantifiable terms, compared to profits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Remember that early and consistent measurement is the first step leading to better control and quicker improvements. Set milestones and manage to those targets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2019

These days, a fun shopping experience, or no-question returns, often tips the scales over extra product features or a lower price. I predict that one day soon customer-centric strategies, and metrics like customer lifetime value, will be seen as the standard in business management, rather than an exception in a product-centric world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2015

The tipping point decision. Proactively sets metrics and track goals. It unleashes an extraordinary verve to take the idea or business to the next level. It tests your capabilities and capacity in various ways, stretching them far beyond your comfort zone and requiring total commitment. Always an evangelist and a good communicator.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Tip: take 2 minutes to read over the entire application before answering any questions. Tip: After writing you answer, re-read the question and ask yourself, “Is there anything in what I wrote that is not actually answering that question?”. We want hard data and metrics – we want proof. Tip: We can see filenames too.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2011

Metrics-Guided. Iceberg tip, not even scratched. Lean Approach. Model-Focused. Vision-Driven (You’re definitely going to need a strong vision when those sleepless nights, crying kids, and angry spouse enter the picture). Trust us when I say that the above is an ultra-hyper summation of the evening’s discussions.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

He gives up the goods and a few tips on what you could do to help market your company. Give your top 5 tips that marketer’s would find useful when marketing their brands. Defined Success Metrics – Know what you are trying to accomplish and set quantifiable goals. Thanks a ton Patrick for all the great insights and tips.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2010

With goals in place, your metrics have so much more meaning and the time you spend analyzing data will drive more informed decisions geared at improving your conversion rates. Good tip: Avoid the long and confusing URLs and use a URL shortener like bit.ly to buy my eBook”. Track your inbound traffic. Help is everywhere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2018

The tipping point decision. Proactively sets metrics and track goals. It unleashes an extraordinary verve to take the idea or business to the next level. It tests your capabilities and capacity in various ways, stretching them far beyond your comfort zone and requiring total commitment. Always an evangelist and a good communicator.

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