Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

No company can afford to lose the agility, flexibility, and innovation of a startup. Metrics and observations while running the existing business become the primary basis for future projections. Through cost-cutting and highly-specialized hiring, firms unintentionally weed out the capacity to innovate and adapt to change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It does require leadership at all levels of the organization to find shared values, set clear expectations, attract and develop talent, accelerate execution of a winning strategy, and generate a feeling of alignment, togetherness, and engagement every day. They keep waiting for top management to somehow fix the situation.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making. Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It could be more revenue, hiring clients, or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. Initially, I would like to hire people from my neighborhood, with the goal of expanding to other communities in the future. It's important to keep business agile.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

No company can afford to lose the agility, flexibility, and innovation of a startup. Metrics and observations while running the existing business become the primary basis for future projections. Through cost-cutting and highly-specialized hiring, firms unintentionally weed out the capacity to innovate and adapt to change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

That starts with initially building a solid business strategy, including a strong support system for scalability, long-term leadership, and adaptability. For a successful launch and scalable growth, they need to establish many checkpoints, with metrics to assess their progress and alignment with the vision.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

17:50] Is there a correlation between leadership inside of an industry by how digital it is? [19:02] And there's a bit of a sense that digital was a bit sort of the wild west in terms of, oh, it's all about agile and people improvise the method and you can't measure things as well. Do you really have a proper agile operating model?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Indeed’s CMO Paul D’Arcy says their priority is brand awareness and reducing friction: “The number one thing we’re doing is making sure that that product is everywhere and a click away when people are looking for a job or looking to hire.” [ via The Drum ]. It also demonstrates leadership from Buffer by being so transparent.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Reaching my mini-goals and recording new numbers on the growth metrics going through thick and then is what keeps me going. Growing my business and then getting a training facility of my own will enable me to hire more trainers and other staff so I can primarily focus on marketing, sales, and coaching. 4- It brings me growth as well.

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 30, 2022

A brand marketer on my leadership team years ago referred to it somewhat derisively as a “tweener” function, one of those things that’s not quite marketing and not quite product. ” Then we hired Scott Roth , who has gone on to have a storied career as a multi-time CEO. Product Marketing is a tricky discipline.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. I help lead the Engineering Leadership SIG at SDForum and wonder if you would be interested in speaking to our group about lean starups. hope to hear from you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2016

No company can afford to lose the agility, flexibility, and innovation of a startup. Metrics and observations while running the existing business become the primary basis for future projections. Through cost-cutting and highly-specialized hiring, firms unintentionally weed out the capacity to innovate and adapt to change.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. We hired union laborers to do that. And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink. What’s your advice about hiring sales/marketing folks? (I

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more. Here are three additional tips about hiring consultants, from my humble experience: 1. If you can try to hire an independent external consultant. Compute how long the person has been consulting, call this X.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. Thats the ultimate task for the companys technology leadership. Just change it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? My answer to that was to be part of the team whose whole is better that its individual parts as its mentioned in the article, a team leadership rather that a point leadership. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I want to especially recognize Vivek Wadhwa and Brad Feld for their leadership.) After all, if you already have an all-male startup, you’re already at a disadvantage when it comes to hiring the very women that could fix that imbalance. When we change a hiring policy, especially if we do it in a visible way, we reap two benefits.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

The core of the article is my first attempt to articulate the key metrics (in graph form) that I believe demonstrate customer value. Here in Tampa, our biggest challenge is convincing the regions technology "leadership" that grassroots economic development is a good thing. January 2, 2009 11:54 AM Daniel Davie said. Expo SF (May.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

What guarantees that agility and innovation are present in your analytics practice? What one critical metric will help you clearly measure performance for each strategy above? How will you know if the performance was a success or failure, what's the target for each critical metric? You plus Finance plus CMO.].

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Gender equality has become a hot topic, particularly with regard to the scarcity of female leadership in the technology industry. Plenty of research shows that hiring and promoting with equality in mind, especially at the top, is critical for company success for a number of reasons. by Kristi Turner, CEO of Compeat.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Market Awareness, Visionary Innovation, Focus (discipline), Leadership, Execution Always appreciate your perspective Eric. So I don't think the Apple experience should be used to discount lean, agile, or customer development-type approaches. Apple also hired away key engineers from Pixo, who I believe still work there.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

Through running my company, 15Five , on our own product, I have found that regularly asking questions is an agile and lightweight way of keeping up with what’s really going on. By quantifying happiness, you can get a quick snapshot of this metric team-wide. It never happened. We are in the feedback business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

The leadership art is to balance the needs of the present with the needs of the future. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Obama understood the two concepts that are essential for building a high-performance, highly adaptable, agile organization: 1) rapid iteration and 2) clear values-based objectives. Mission synchronization If an organization is changing on a daily basis how is it that it doesnt look "erratic" yet feels "agile." Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

And the final lesson was that we were keeping score on our packaging with the wrong metrics – it wasn’t about awards, it was about sales in the retail channel. Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Kappos: We added 5 new metrics with guide on how to use them on the site. We’ve revectored to an agile development methodology. I just signed an S-152 to approve the hiring of some external lawyers who want to join us to become judges. We got new leadership coming in. ct that filings are up 7.5% IBM, I.B.M.,

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

No company hires anyone called a Reporting Squirrel. Everyone hires what they believe are Analysis Ninjas. Again, remember no company actually hires anyone called a Reporting Squirrel. Most companies hire a Web Analyst, Sr. You know what your Return on Analytics is! Reporting Squirrels vs. Analysis Ninjas. " Kisses.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Additionally, if you want to hire more engineers, how hard will it be to find people using this language. Need to hire others: This communicates they might not be as good as you want or just can’t hack it and solve the initial problem. You might as well hire an outsourced team. Thus, this is not the right co-founder for you.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 18, 2009

The Thought Leadership talks are awesome. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Thanks, Joe! Hope to see you soon! 3comments: Lincoln Nguyen said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

While both Stanford and MIT encouraged commercially oriented research and courted federal research contracts in the postwar years, MITs leadership focused on building relations with government agencies and seeking financial support from established electronics producers. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2009

As a consequence, this new startup is relentlessly metrics-driven. Does lean startup xlate into sustainable success where a fast feedback/iteration loop yields market leadership? It is neither a capitulation to “what customers think they want&# nor a willful ignorance of conditions on the ground. It is a company built to learn.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

If you are doing lame stuff, why try harder in an analytics context by asking for Economic Value or Visitor Loyalty or Conversation Rate or a thousand other super powerful and insightful metrics ? The web demands immense agility and flexibility from every company. Fill it with the best web metrics to measure success.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2009

They also tend to generate inefficiencies (everyone's doing their own thing after all) be it with tools or work or metrics definitions or testing platforms or… Decentralized organizations optimize for a local maxima and it happens all the time that while individual divisions in a company win, that the company as a whole loses.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Not All Startups Are Alike There’s an urban legend that Eskimos-Aleuts have more words to describe snow than other cultures.

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