Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Business risks are not just development risks. Idea management. Build and manage a pipeline of ideas. Set milestones and meet them. Ownership. Net result and reward.

Intellectual Property 343

Intellectual Property Metrics .Net Social Network 343

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

of revenue, force-feeding sales pipelines with an unprofitable product. I know the argument: The pay-back period on sales, marketing, and up-start costs is long, but there’s a profitable result at the end of the tunnel. So no, this upside-down business model isn’t what a SaaS business should construct.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

In addition to providing customer care and assistance, a virtual assistant may also develop web pages or compose blog entries, administer email newsletters, carry out sales and marketing chores, generate sales leads, and conduct a variety of other jobs. Thanks to Carter Seuthe, Credit Summit ! #4- Thanks to Jaden Oh, TRAFFV ! #9-

Software Review 119

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 119

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

Key components of revenue architecture go beyond simply predicting sales to include: the name and attributes of the startup’s category, a messaging matrix, a pricing strategy, a sales strategy and other business model elements. Revenue Architecture. One of the biggest causes of startup failure is related to team dynamics.

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Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 127

The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

The lesson of the pandemic era is clear, as market conditions change, business models must evolve. Success is not, as you would think, about having stable business models across market conditions. There is one consideration that should be paramount in your thinking about your business model.

Business Model 78

Business Model Aggregator Revenue Analytics 78

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

Key components of revenue architecture go beyond simply predicting sales to include: the name and attributes of the startup’s category, a messaging matrix, a pricing strategy, a sales strategy and other business model elements. Revenue Architecture. One of the biggest causes of startup failure is related to team dynamics.

Framework 113

Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 113

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As a business advisor, I have too often seen technical entrepreneurs get a product or service off the ground with ease, but then struggle mightily when their business reaches a couple of million in annual sales, or the employee count grows beyond a handful. Implement metrics and set objectives for every organization.

Startup 343

Startup Metrics Hiring Leadership 343

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales. Align your business model to how your customers want to buy. Include planned measurements and metrics. It has to be managed and sold internally as a culture change, requiring everyone’s help.

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Revenue Startup Technical Review Business Model 263

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

If your relish the challenges of creating an innovative solution or business model, then this is the type of work you must seek. I find many technologists fit well into this category, but most of them are frustrated by required interfacing to real customers, managing business finances, and marketing.

Metrics 272

Metrics Early Stage Finance Programming 272

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The faster this process can be repeated, the more likely they’ll find scalable, repeatable ways to grow the business.”. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing. Activation. Revival messaging.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Business risks are not just development risks. Idea management. Build and manage a pipeline of ideas. Set milestones and meet them. Ownership. Net result and reward.

Intellectual Property 360

Intellectual Property Social Network Metrics .Net 360

Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Here are just a few things you can do by leveraging data analytics: Gain a better understanding of changing customer preferences Discover new business opportunities Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in your operations Minimize and better allocate advertising costs Provide greater customer support through automated chat. Here are our 4 tips.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Analytics Forecast Artificial Inteligence 131

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2017

Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales. Align your business model to how your customers want to buy. Include planned measurements and metrics. It has to be managed and sold internally as a culture change, requiring everyone’s help.

Small Business 147

Small Business Revenue Technical Review Business Model 147

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

The digital revolution is disrupting the traditional business model for small and medium businesses (SMBs). Owners no longer have to buy management software meant for big business. apps to manage their operations, up from 3.8 by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. Enterprise Apps.

Artificial Inteligence 164

Artificial Inteligence Analytics SCRUM Cofounder 164

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers? What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ? I gave my boilerplate answer, “I’m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics.

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Customer Development Web Developer Customer 228

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2023

This is the first business process that every startup needs, that I wouldn’t expect to find for a hobby. Managing to specific goals, priorities, and a plan. Preparation and management of funding. These are critical processes for any business, so they need to be implemented even before investor requests are sized or solicited.

Exit Strategy 288

Exit Strategy Metrics Operations Cost 288

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales. Align your business model to how your customers want to buy. Include planned measurements and metrics. It has to be managed and sold internally as a culture change, requiring everyone’s help.

Technical Review 234

Technical Review Business Model Revenue Social Media 234

Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2023

#4- Increase in customer experience Photo Credit: James Angel Technology can improve the customer experience by allowing businesses to tailor their offerings to each individual. 5- Business model innovations Photo Credit: Bram Jansen New forms of commerce and sources of income are becoming possible thanks to technological advancements.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Technology Entrepreneur 108

Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

This week they were testing their hypotheses about the sales “Channel” – how a company delivers its value proposition (i.e. Physical channels include Direct Sales, Rep Firms, Systems Integrators, Value-added Resellers, Distributors, Dealers, Mass Merchandisers, and Original Equipment Manufacturers. All that we expected.

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Channel Artificial Inteligence San Francisco Business Model 233

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

I''ve been thinking a lot lately about scaling sales. . Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. How do I build a repeatable, scalable sales process that is like an industrial machine - not a crafts project? 1) Enterprise Sales.

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Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Here are eight key business tasks that relate to almost every startup, generally prioritized by criticality. Think about the implications of each to your own business, and the potential impact of getting them done incorrectly, or forgetting to do them entirely: Manage your financials and physical assets. Manage human resources.

Startup 187

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 187

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2011

Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales. Align your business model to how your customers want to buy. Include planned measurements and metrics. It has to be managed and sold internally as a culture change, requiring everyone’s help.

Customer 242

Customer Technical Review Business Model Revenue 242

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Measure progress through metrics on sales, revenue, and penetration. These start with your brand image, search visibility and process, and extend to the actual sales transaction. Look for every opportunity to scale the business. Seek customer feedback on ways to improve value and satisfaction.

Agile 229

Agile Leadership Global Distribution 229

For Entrepreneurs

JULY 5, 2017

Since 2007, The Bridge Group has tracked the Account Executive (AE) role and gathered data on how metrics and compensation change over time. We’ve partnered together to publish the 2017 SaaS AE Metrics Report and offer sales organizations a set of benchmarks to compare themselves against industry standards.

Metrics 124

Metrics Sales Partner Business Model 124

NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

experiments to build a product, find customers, test business models and hire amazing people. So managing risk in a startup is less about compliance, it’s more about being as brave and ambitious as you can without breaking things. Creating this value is anchored in finding a repeatable, scalable business model.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Software Review New Zealand Due Diligence 88

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. This post is applicable to any kind of business.

Metrics 55

Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

As two fund managers employing Flexible VC, we think it is a healthy addition to the ecosystem and will yield more predictable and stable healthy returns for investors. Too often, investment structures force the management team to make decisions between misaligned growth and investment (return) objectives. Flexible VC 102: Variations.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

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. He had teamed up with a former product manager at P&G to deliver seminars on just this subject.

Sales 120

Sales Silicon Valley RSS Las Vegas 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

While the impact on small businesses and workers in the “gig-economy” hasn’t made the news, it will be worse for them. They have fewer cash reserves and less margin of error for managing sudden downturns. But next the question is, ‘What happens to my business?”. What does your new business model look like?

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Burn Rate Startup Valuation Sales Cycle 436

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

This is the first business process that every startup needs, that I wouldn’t expect to find for a hobby. Managing to specific goals, priorities, and a plan. Preparation and management of funding. These are critical processes for any business, so they need to be implemented even before investor requests are sized or solicited.

Entrepreneur 328

Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Metrics Operations 328

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

The Enterprise: Business Model Execution We know that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. The corollary for an enterprise is: A company is a permanent organization designed to execute a repeatable and scalable business model.

IRR 335

IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 1, 2018

You’ve taken it to the market and have seen strong sales and rave reviews by customers. How do you pitch your business in a way that makes you stand out from the rest? Before meeting with a venture capitalist, you must have a clearly defined business model and a functioning team in place. Is the business generating cash?

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Startup Portfolio Software Review Technical Review 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2020

As a business advisor, I have too often seen technical entrepreneurs get a product or service off the ground with ease, but then struggle mightily when their business reaches a couple of million in annual sales, or the employee count grows beyond a handful. Implement metrics and set objectives for every organization.

Startup 314

Startup Metrics Hiring Leadership 314

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In many cases, businesses are started by people with years of corporate experience. They understand how to read a profit and loss (P&L) statement , how to budget, hire employees , launch products , and manage cash flow. I was so focused on creating great art, I barely gave thought to a business plan.

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Startup New York City Community Software Review 111

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? Business Model I would like to propose that in addition to team, product, and market, there is actually a fourth, equally important, core element of startups, which is the need for a viable business model.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

Team: Who is on your management team? Financial summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Now is the time to lay out what you’ll do to attract patients and set up a viable business model with healthy financials. Marketing and sales plan. Be specific.

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Business Plan Technical Review Exit Strategy Oregon 72

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Yet you might be surprised how easily business owners are stumped by questions like these. That’s why we asked nine members from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) what metrics all founders should be aware of — always. After all, a sustainable business model requires repeat customers! No Specific Metric.

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Metrics Burn Rate Entrepreneur Forecast 146