YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Many startups are already tech-based, and the tech they use can help them connect with consumers and make sales online. Pivoting only works if a business is small and agile and can shift its operations quickly and flawlessly in a different direction. However, finding the solution to that problem is simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

They outline and give some positive recommendations to counter the key organizational impediments to fast transformation that I see all too often, even in businesses with top management committed to first-mover speed and agility: Passive resistance to change from within the organization.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2017

by Amanda Setili, author of “ Fearless Growth: The New Rules to Stay Competitive, Foster Innovation, and Dominate Your Markets “ Polarization is a common problem for companies trying to make smart and agile strategic decisions. Hint: That should be all companies.) So, what happens next? Develop several alternatives.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Keeping up with trends is the reality show of the e-commerce world, which is constantly developing, gaining a significant market share, and driving online sales. According to the Adjust and Sensor Tower report, in 2021, m-commerce accumulated 54% of all e-commerce sales worldwide, whose market exceeds $3.5 Only in 2021, 72.9%

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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. Unfortunately, I often see goal misalignments with teams, such as marketing measured on sales volume, or sales measured on customer retention. Provide assessments based wholly on facts.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Insufficient capital, over investment, and low sales are just some of the reasons leading to this sobering statistic. Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. This reduces guesswork, time, money and effort.

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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

JUNE 20, 2022

Changes in your organization’s core performance metrics. For example, quarterly sales on one of your most important products suddenly decreases, or your inventory across a whole category has surged. Re-evaluating relentlessly for the agility to survive. Divergent thinking to create many new boxes, concepts, and hypotheses.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Your sales team has data in their CRM. Say your objective is to increase sales revenue from your existing customer base, and your key result is to generate an additional $500k from these customers by the end of Q2. You also need metrics on cart abandonment and purchase rates of those who saw your test idea and those who didn’t.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. But the computer retail channel was a large part of our sales. Oh yes, and retail sales doubled with the new product packaging.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In this article, we’ll share key brand tracking metrics and methods for how to measure and optimize your success. Key brand tracking metrics. You might find that, on average, your CSAT score is lowest at the handoff point between sales and service. Is your brand part of most consumers’ consideration set? Brand loyalty.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It's important to keep business agile. One of the key metrics of success in Real Estate is having a large market share. Taking skills courses, such as programming, sales, or design, allows you to diversify your applications, which turns out to be a valuable asset to any project or. #8- Being prepared for the unexpected.

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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. These will almost always be related to sales and marketing, since they must tie back to cash flow. Build change agility into all your processes.

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 4, 2019

Do you have a clear sales and marketing strategy to grow sales in this new financial year? All our clients come to us with a common goal of ‘I want to grow my sales’. How to Develop your Sales and Marketing Strategy. First, you’ll need to dream about what you’d really love to see happening with sales in your business.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

All the teams were showing us what agile looked like, but this week several would remind us what focused and relentless really meant. This week they were testing their hypotheses about the sales “Channel” – how a company delivers its value proposition (i.e. Week 6 of the class. its product or service) to its customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

Define success metrics, and measure progress regularly. As you move from development to rollout, a team effort is required, including marketing, sales, funding, and customers. If you tell me that you have been working on your startup for two years, but can’t quite quantify the progress, I’m not impressed.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

The disadvantage is that its methodology was based on the old waterfall model of product development and not the agile and lean methods that startups use today. It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. Seeing Is Believing. The Business Plan is Dead.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. By being so metrics driven we can have a lot more quantifiable and objective discussions at board meetings and at mid-point reviews. . The Agile Board.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Web startups are at real disadvantage here as founders may confuse web metrics, A/B testing and on-line surveys as the entirety of first-hand knowledge – for most web business models they are not. Metrics tell you that something is happening. Of course you need to collect metrics, do A/B testing and run online surveys.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

He says the “create” approach means working on your project until you’re certain it’s completely polished and looks like the top products in the market, and your strategies and sales tools are all top-notch before you ever think of launching. Know every business metric for your company—start with Google Analytics.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. They measure their success on metrics that reflect success in execution, and they reward execution.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them. In the past I’ve shared a cluster of metrics that small, medium and large businesses can use as a springboard…. If you want to play along. Don’t read what I’ve chosen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Changes in your organization’s core performance metrics. For example, quarterly sales on one of your most important products suddenly decreases, or your inventory across a whole category has surged. Re-evaluating relentlessly for the agility to survive. Divergent thinking to create many new boxes, concepts, and hypotheses.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

It’s also a time when you are most agile to work on ideas and implement strategies without the crippling setbacks caused by decision hierarchy and process. Businesses invest a great deal of time and resources into marketing strategies and channels but not as much once the individual is within the fold of the sales funnel and customer-base.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Indeed’s German branch was struggling to close sales because they had no awareness in that market. After running a culturally relevant marketing campaign, Indeed rose to number one in traffic and sales in Germany. Marketers must adjust their expectations and metrics with expanded brand tracking.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. For a startup, having great sales DNA is a wonderful asset. This is the magic of sales: by learning about each customer in-depth, they can convince each of them that this product would solve serious problems. But here’s where a truly great sales artist comes in.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

It’s also a time when you are most agile to work on ideas and implement strategies without the crippling setbacks caused by decision hierarchy and process. Businesses invest a great deal of time and resources into marketing strategies and channels but not as much once the individual is within the fold of the sales funnel and customer-base.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Fortunately, using seven key strategies, you can drive your small business from screens to sales. It presents a golden opportunity for small businesses to enhance their brand visibility and drive sales. This agility enables you to make informed decisions, optimizing your advertising efforts for maximum impact. billion in 2024.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 18, 2024

These adoptions often lead to a company-wide metamorphosis, ushering businesses into a new era of efficiency, agility, and data-driven decision-making. Organizations can select from a suite of advanced modules ranging from project management, sales, and marketing to e-commerce.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Mark Leslie has articulated a very similar methodology to "4 steps to the epiphany" in his "sales learning curve" model which I also find compelling.

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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. To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. Growth - when you have existing customers, the pressure is on to grow your key metrics day-in day-out.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2010

Or depending on your metrics for success, get users, grow traffic, etc.). How Does Customer Development, Agile Development and Lean Startups Fit? Agile Development is the way startups quickly iterate their product as they learn. A business model describes how your company creates, delivers and captures value.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Max Levchin of Slide and Paypal has noted that 10% of Slides headcount is devoted to metrics only.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Yet even among those who have access to good actionable metrics, I’ve noticed a phenomenon that prevents taking maximum advantage of data. Too much of this data is non- actionable.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 1, 2021

For example, let’s say you’re attempting to set a sales goal but you’re not sure what number is appropriate. It’s fine to establish a goal range if you’re talking about sales numbers, revenue, or some other quantity, but make sure you’re still comfortable achieving the lower end of the spectrum. Construct your risk burndown.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

In an enterprise sales context, this is called a "repeatable and scalable sales process" - once you know how to do this, your company can graduate from early adopters and make an attempt at the mainstream. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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