Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2023

Bezos believes that if you double the number of experiments you do per year, you’re going to double your agility, and thus grow the business more rapidly. Use metrics and data to quantify progress and return. Unfortunately, continuing to perform without collecting business data or measuring customer metrics is a recipe for failure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2022

As companies grow, they tend to become more structured, to the point of discouraging risk by team members, and using metrics to identify mistakes and allocate bonuses. Internal metrics are great for fixing problems, but industry experts, influencers, and customers are better indicators of future change and trends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Increase change agility. Change agility represents a startup’s ability to immediately and effectively engage everyone in pending changes and innovations. Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics. In summary, change will happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Make sure that metrics and goals are set up front, and not modified as the project progresses. If key metrics and expectations rely on results from another group, then you have a conflict which prevents accountability from either group. Provide assessments based wholly on facts. Align accountability with organizational objectives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2017

Every company needs to track their progress and measure results – establish metrics to understand how much and how effectively their workplaces are being transformed and compete. This means that both you and your company need to be more agile, more open and willing to learn, and rethink your focus on the future versus the present.

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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. The future is extrapolated from internal data analysis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2022

Changes in your organization’s core performance metrics. If one metric changes, it may not be significant, but someone needs to monitor whole categories for fluctuations that may be a weak signal. Re-evaluating relentlessly for the agility to survive. Divergent thinking to create many new boxes, concepts, and hypotheses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Even with advantages that independent startups can never hope to match, including brand recognition, customers, financial capital, and distribution, I don’t often see the entrepreneurial passion for innovation, agility, and team perseverance exhibited by new startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In a new book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Forestall loss of momentum by creating a long-term roadmap of activities and objectives, with metrics, to track implementation and measure results. These insights, as well as my own experience, is why every business leader needs to focus on achieving their best employee culture as the key to agility, impact, and competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Everyone in the company must adopt the principles of customer-first focus, agility in responding to change, and constant innovation to improve your processes as well as the solution. Measure progress through metrics on sales, revenue, and penetration. Seek customer feedback on ways to improve value and satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

Implement the key business metrices you will live by. Identify the three most important metrics your business must hit every week to achieve growth goals. Build change agility into all your processes. These are the timeless principles that must guide all hiring, marketing, and execution decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

Set business goals and milestones, and use metrics to track performance. A great business must be agile. If every plan adjustment is a reaction to a crisis, you won’t take corrective action quickly enough and will never find new opportunities. Continuous improvement applies to the business model as well as the product.

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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. The future is extrapolated from internal data analysis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2019

Increase change agility. Change agility represents a startup’s ability to immediately and effectively engage everyone in pending changes and innovations. Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics. In summary, change will happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

Define success metrics, and measure progress regularly. However, the best entrepreneurs provide the agility and foresight to incorporate the elements outlined here, allowing them to seemingly take any solution and build a successful business. If you have completed four out of five milestones, we can both see success in your future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Changes in your organization’s core performance metrics. If one metric changes, it may not be significant, but someone needs to monitor whole categories for fluctuations that may be a weak signal. Re-evaluating relentlessly for the agility to survive. Divergent thinking to create many new boxes, concepts, and hypotheses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2020

You can and must fix this by communicating business goals and objectives, and establishing personal metrics which only reward success. Accountable leaders and teams realize that pivots are often required, and the agility to make changes to the product, business model, and even the customer set, must be part of every accountable culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2014

Increase change agility. Change agility represents a startup’s ability to immediately and effectively engage everyone in pending changes and innovations. Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics. In summary, change will happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2017

Increase change agility. Change agility represents a startup’s ability to immediately and effectively engage everyone in pending changes and innovations. Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics. In summary, change will happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

For a successful launch and scalable growth, they need to establish many checkpoints, with metrics to assess their progress and alignment with the vision. You may start with prototype products, but you need rock-solid processes for successful growth and agility. Don’t let that communication fade post-launch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Increase change agility. Change agility represents a startup’s ability to immediately and effectively engage everyone in pending changes and innovations. Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics. In summary, change will happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Changes in your organization’s core performance metrics. If one metric changes, it may not be significant, but someone needs to monitor whole categories for fluctuations that may be a weak signal. Re-evaluating relentlessly for the agility to survive. Divergent thinking to create many new boxes, concepts, and hypotheses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Changes in your organization’s core performance metrics. If one metric changes, it may not be significant, but someone needs to monitor whole categories for fluctuations that may be a weak signal. Re-evaluating relentlessly for the agility to survive. Divergent thinking to create many new boxes, concepts, and hypotheses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Increase change agility. Change agility represents a startup’s ability to immediately and effectively engage everyone in pending changes and innovations. Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics. In summary, change will happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2010

Increase change agility. Change agility represents a startup’s ability to immediately and effectively engage everyone in pending changes and innovations. Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics. In summary, change will happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2015

Changes in your organization’s core performance metrics. If one metric changes, it may not be significant, but someone needs to monitor whole categories for fluctuations that may be a weak signal. . Re-evaluating relentlessly for the agility to survive. Divergent thinking to create many new boxes, concepts, and hypotheses.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Metrics Agile Community 120

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. The future is extrapolated from internal data analysis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Measure your agility by putting metrics on change. People must be measured in performance reviews against industry best practices, rather than previous results in your business. They may be improving every period, but losing the race. Old views of change rates are no longer competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2023

Thus my challenge to you is to start today in documenting specific goals , putting some metrics in place to measure progress, and start celebrating every bit of progress, no matter how small, along the way as follows: Convert dreams into specific written objectives. Pivot to add and revise your plan as you learn.

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