Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

A classic article in the Harvard Business Review “ The Truth About Customer Experience ” defines it as your customer’s end-to-end journey with you, not just the key touchpoints or critical moments when customers interact with your organization. Remember the old adage, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Detractors.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Instead of budget approvals, monitor key metrics and give managers more flexibility. How should a growth company manage their budget? So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2021

However, in scenarios where you have to estimate a more precise and technical value like estate planning, litigation, and transactions—rules of thumb do not provide an accurate value. Metrics such as discretionary cash flow or business revenue are used. Where Net Sales = Annual Gross Sales, net of returns and discounts allowed, if any.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

With advances in technology, green buildings can also be built at fairly competitive prices. In California, regulators have forwarded a measure to have buildings achieve zero net energy consumption. The environmental issues include climate change adaptation and water, waste and energy management. Introduction of smart metering.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. Because we don't understand the uniqueness, we fall back on profoundly sub-optimal old world metrics like Reach or Online GRP equivalents. Metrics are a problem.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2021

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is a metric to monitor how effectively a business is accomplishing its specific objective. EMPLOYEE NET PROMOTER SCORE . You may be familiar with the net promoter score (NPS). The metric is useful for measuring the chances a customer would recommend your products or service. SALES KPIs.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Team: Who is on your management team? The global market for CBD oils is expanding due to their medical efficacy. A number of cannabis tech companies have also begun to take advantage of the opportunity in the marketplace. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Technology. Be specific.

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Board Effect

APRIL 15, 2024

Solving our most pressing social issues, providing a safety net of love and care, this is the immeasurably critical role of our social sector organizations. Measuring DE&I progress Use tools and metrics. “To

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The goal of growth hacking as marketing is rapid growth, using strategies and tactics that leverage (and even exploit) technology, platforms, and behavior to reach an end goal. How to create a growth hacking strategy using the pirate metrics model. Don’t cast your net too far and wide. Activation. What do they want more of?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

You need to use your time and resources productively by focusing on the right metrics so you can use data to help you implement improvements that matter. The first step is to formulate a KPI strategy by selecting the right metrics to track. Managers should be able to form an actionable response based on the information.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Combining these goals and objectives will give you meaningful metrics to track. Objective Goal Metrics Grow the business Increase awareness and perceived value Followers, fans, shares, retweets, etc. Improve retention Improve consumer perception Sentiment, testimonials, reviews, customer support and service response time, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Gross Profit (also called Gross Margin or sometimes “Net Revenue”). Simplifying: Revenue -. Operating Costs.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

It could be the product itself, it could be the way you’re marketing, it could be that the customer isn’t savvy enough to use the technology, it could be any number of things. The customer is having technical difficulties, like a poor streaming experience. The truth is, pricing usually isn’t the issue. Dig deeper.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The “nice to haves” included retaining at least the current level of sales with the DIY retailers and HVAC services companies, and maintaining at least 10 percent net profits. Chris, who ran manufacturing and logistics, was most concerned about how the company would manage the thousands of individual shipments to consumers.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

If you’ve never written a business plan before, Bplans also offers a library of sample medical business plans that you can review or even download to use as a model. Team: Who is on your management team? Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Encourage your patients to review you online, too.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Here are the top five things you can do to increase the transparency of your board: Reviewing and sharing financials and other data- Most likely, your organization is already doing this to some extent. They’re most interested in meaningful metrics and the standards you measure them against. That’s right!

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Aside from event website conversion rates, other metrics worth tracking include, but are not limited to: Email open rates. It used to be that tracking metrics for in-person events was as limited as tracking snail mail. Today’s event technology grants organizers unparallelled access to real-time event data.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Kai (12:15): I think it's the combination, and I think it starts with a general idea of this people age that has come and we have a dedicated chapter on AI and technology, but the idea is it starts with the people. So how do you leverage technology? It's the people.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Marketing metrics are a competitive advantage. You have to track metrics you can act on. In this article, you’ll learn which metrics to measure to understand and improve marketing performance. Table of contents What are digital marketing metrics? KPIs vs. digital marketing metrics 1. – Seth Godin.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

See Supporting New Managers and What Would You Do to Support New Managers? We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. I have to say that it has netted far more than I would have thought. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. as an example.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

You might also notice that people using the Firefox browser hardly convert at all when they see variation B: this could mean that there are some technical issues with the front-end code that make the treatments not work on Firefox. It’s difficult to manage this by creating manual rules inside your personalization tool. Image Source.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

The field uses the broader term “gender” rather than “female” because, as the Stanford Social Innovation Review states, “Using ‘gender’ brings both men and women into the conversation. The movement’s objective is to look at the entire financial and social system, not just at women.”

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

An operative budgeting strategy also helps businesses measure performance against expenditure and gives management the go-ahead to appoint resources that contribute to the company’s success. . According to research, 82% of businesses fail due to poor cash flow management. Failing to track your spending.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. When you’re company is growing >10x year over year, I suppose if management didn’t invest a lot in continued growth their board directors would line them up against the wall. in net revenue and passes $0.58 2010 Net Income: -$389M (net loss) (2).

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. It had a pretty good technical design. That "good design" turned out to be technical debt, after all.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

For more on this, see An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack. In particular, highlight the metrics by which you measured your past activities: size of exit, number of people you managed, $ budget you were responsible for, etc. Set up a Data Room, with a filled-out Due Diligence Questionnaire (“DDQ”).

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Id like to talk about a technique Ive used to help manage this growth without slowing down. Playing with new technologies. Managers in this area have to take a portfolio approach, promoting ideas that work and might make good candidates for further investment. Seeing whats possible. Building and testing prototypes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company Ive even heard about. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. What is customer development?

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

For SaaS companies, we found that MRR is the best metric on which to base sales commissions. While it may make sense to offer very slight adjustments for favorable payment terms and one time revenue, net additions to MRR should dominate the sales rep’s thoughts. In search of Europe's next tech stars. Lluis Faus @ vLex.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2014

For this webinar I was joined by Tom Misson, Vice President and Senior Business Leader for Mastercard Worldwide, who manages the U.S. It’s important because it’s just an essential part of sound management. But goals need to not be set on a hundred items because you’ll never be able to manage that. Small Business segment.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Stage 1: Target the right metrics for an effective long game. However, due to B2B market saturation, customer acquisition costs are rising ; this digital marketing strategy of giving a little and getting a lot no longer works. Metrics for your demand generation funnel. Mistakes to avoid when targeting metrics.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

These 6 KRIs are The CHICAGO MetricsR and are the result of an aggregation algorithm based on any number of tactical metrics. Since basis of the company was to create, track, and report out on metrics it fit with the theme and the name, hence, CHICAGO MetricsR. We are a review platform for VoIP services. 3- Name description.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

You’ve reviewed what a business plan is , and why you need one to start and grow your business. The company overview provides a quick review of the company’s legal structure and location, as well as some background on the company’s history if you’re writing the plan for an existing business. Milestones and Metrics. Read more ».

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. What started as a technical problem actually turned out to be a human and process problem. So-and-so made a mistake why did his mistake get checked in?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

While reading a book called “ No Forms, No Cold Calls & No Spam ” by Latané Conant, I came to the realization that many vendors try to position ABM as a $40,000 technology stack problem. Technology has both enabled us and added needless complexity to the process. Dave says it best (who ran ABM at Marketo & Bizible).

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