Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Unfortunately, your personal assessment that you have traction probably won’t be convincing to potential investors and partners, so it’s important that you create and track your progress against some metrics. Define metrics on customer feedback and user counts. Assemble a credible inside advisory board and partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

It pays to invest more in building remote relationships with these site owners, or spending quality time with podcasters and popular blog influencers. We all have goals and expectations, and a backstory that may be inspirational, memorable, and important to potential partners. Highlight your personal leadership values and experience.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The goals of those policies are to produce a more diverse and inclusive environment at the organization and for the communities they serve, as well as for their donors, vendors and partners. In other words, DE&I policies and practices must include metrics to gauge the success of those goals.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

In this webinar, we take time to discuss the different metrics that startups—and established businesses—should be tracking. In terms of pre-purchase, traffic and content metrics. So I’m going to keep going here, “Pre-purchase, the traffic and content metrics.” Peter, anybody have any questions as I go along?

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Board Effect

AUGUST 18, 2023

Here are some examples: Are you partnering with a group that, while it feeds children, also generates an unsustainable amount of environmental waste? Once information has been identified, staff will be able to use board management software to input and update metrics. It also requires you to track your dealings with external groups.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

These are actual results a startup Ringadoc got from their partner program. Chris Samila , Partnerships Manager at Optimizely shares: “We saw building and supporting a partner ecosystem as a massive opportunity. So we started building out the partner program.”. B2B tech partners are now targeting business leaders instead of IT.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

These are actual results a startup Ringadoc got from their partner program. Chris Samila , Partnerships Manager at Optimizely shares: “We saw building and supporting a partner ecosystem as a massive opportunity. So we started building out the partner program.”. B2B tech partners are now targeting business leaders instead of IT.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2018

A firm like ours has almost 100 different investments across all the various partners so we get to see some businesses very intimately. Since I know not everybody reads Twitter I thought I’d collect them here in a blog post. If you can any value please feel free to share this post or RT any individual Tweet.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “. There are no seminal books and few insightful blogs for them to turn to. And given the paucity of business metrics at this point in a startup’s lifecycle, spreadsheet analysis is of little help.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Or, if you can’t skip a round, when should you try to work extra hard to minimize dilution and when should you be prepared to take more dilution for the right partner/situation? Also, the benefit of raising a pre-seed from great partners probably outweighs the cost. Founders with limited experience. Experienced founders: B2B.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions (NAFCU) is encouraging credit unions to evaluate and partner with fintechs so they can remain competitive. Credit unions can partner with fintechs to help transform legacy processes so they can offer new products, services and technologies to current members.

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Board Effect

JUNE 25, 2023

Donors, volunteers, and partners support nonprofits because of their missions. Your mission and your reputation are everything; Losing the trust of your donors, partners, and employees takes a long time to repair. When these incidents happen, donors, volunteers, and corporate partners take note.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2017

Similarly, you can update the old post for even longer on-page time metrics, as well as more recognition from Google Search. Aim for a content provision rate of about 2-3 blog posts per week in an easily-digestible format, and you’ll see your targeted traffic rise steadily as the months go by. Consider Outsourcing Your Content.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Adopt Smart Partnerships Smart colleges can also tie their success to the right partners. Partners such as Diligent bring experience with mission-driven organizations to make the dream achievable while staying in-budget. The Next Steps to Data Maturity Most organizations already have the data they need to start making profound change.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Stage 1: Target the right metrics for an effective long game. Metrics for your demand generation funnel. Your number one metric for any marketing initiative should be revenue. Build a picture over time that tells you which metrics lead to revenue versus those that just make you feel good (i.e.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Adopt Smart Partnerships The Biokind Analytics example shows that healthcare organizations can tie their success to the right partners. Partners such as Diligent bring experience with mission-driven organizations to make the dream achievable while staying in-budget.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . What Rob wrote in his post is right. That in itself is quite a challenge.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Adopt Smart Partnerships The earlier examples, both around fundraising, can tie their success to the right partners. Partners such as Diligent bring experience with mission-driven organizations to make the dreamable achievable while staying in-budget.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 17, 2021

I also love figuring out where a founder is going and what their north star metric could be, both now and in the future. I was recently catching up with Pete about his metrics of success , and how to own them. We also started talking about the “north star” metrics of a business. Product idea/tangent/focus area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. This is the point where you must manage to metrics, work on the culture of the organization, and look for partner-based growth.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The metrics. Vanity metrics are less important. Its blog , for example, is driven by its team. Its founder Steli Efti explains in a blog post why this approach is beneficial: “Out-teaching your competition is one of the best ways to build your brand, especially in the SaaS world. Which channels have the best engagement?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to use data visualization to scale your organization through partner networks, sales enablement, and product-led content. Let’s look at how to do this through three channels: partners, sales, and product. Collaborate with partners on data. Stream charts.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

How to Scale Unicorns With Partner David Zhang, TVC. Joining us for this episode is our partner David Zhang, Partner at TCV (( Technology Crossover Ventures ). I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. If you focus too much on other stuff, you can get the best sales team and efficiency metrics in the world.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

In this comprehensive template and guide we break down each of the nine core sections in the deck: intro , team , what do you do , is it working , why does it matter (market) , can you be the best in the world (product, growth, financial metrics) , where are you going , what do you want (the ask) , and appendix. ” (Lee Hower).

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Regular readers of the blog know of my deep love for competitive intelligence analysis. My first blog post on the topic of CIA was on 14th Aug 2006! Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. Onsite Behavior Key Metrics Analysis. Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Why, What & How to Choose. Incoming and Outgoing Traffic.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

At the time, I spent most of my time describing the metrics themselves and how VCs and their LPs evaluate performance based on these measurements. If you aren’t familiar with these metrics, I recommend reading the original post to get a sense of the numbers that I’ll be reviewing here. So, is this good or bad? LP Constraints.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For example, we do Mental Math together where we look at key metrics and test them, improve them, or decide to scrap them. We are always attuned to key metrics and from time to time, we project them forward in our minds. What will happen to a key metric if our business scales 10-fold or if it declines 10-fold, for example.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Silos also exist between external partners, such as agencies and consultancies. Silos between external partners are also very common and can duplicate work, generate a lot of unnecessary back and forth, and waste an opportunity to maximize the value of one agency through another. Set clear responsibilities across partners.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

We’ll cover the following strategies: Retargeting and remarketing Partner programs A/B testing Customer retention Automated processes. For these queries, you have to choose your data source and date range as well as what metrics and dimensions you want to include. Partner program. Benefits of having a partner program.

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Board Effect

APRIL 15, 2024

By making DE&I central to our mission, values, and daily operations, we not only enrich our own organizations but also contribute to building a more just, equitable, and inclusive society.” — Patrick Downes, Partner, Governance Ireland Inclusivity equals effectiveness and innovation. “DE&I

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2020

There are countless options you can go for, including: Compilations of your best blog posts or essays that dive deep into important topics. Bonus tip: You can repurpose the eBook’s long-form content to produce shorter blog posts, infographics, newsletters, or videos—anything that helps you keep your content up to date.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

How to create a growth hacking strategy using the pirate metrics model. Growth hacking in marketing incorporates the five stages of the customer lifecycle into the “ AARRR Framework ,” otherwise known as the “Pirate Metrics model.”. But it’s not a channel you can scale as easily as LinkedIn , which offers a similar audience.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Have you checked out this blog post, this video, and this infographic? Awareness would then grow as they perused our landing pages, read our blog posts, and filled out a form to download an in-depth white paper. Metrics for this depth are rare and only long-term. The metrics for this level are more concrete and objective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2021

Investors worry about a single entrepreneur getting overloaded, disabled or led astray, with no balancing and supporting partner. The challenge is how to find that elusive perfect-fit partner. Don’t expect someone else to find the partner for you, since it’s really very much like finding a life partner.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

HubSpot built brand equity through community-building, blog posts, social media marketing , and its HubSpot Academy. Buffer , for instance, lists its marketing partners and clients on its homepage. The marketing partners speak for themselves. A similar effect can be had by working with influencers.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Adopt Smart Partnerships The earlier examples, both around fundraising, can tie their success to the right partners. Partners such as Diligent bring experience with mission-driven organizations to make the dreamable achievable while staying in-budget.

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