SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What are your key Startup Metrics ? How will you differentiate from these? Content Management - do we need to allow easy editing of content in the system? Logging/Auditing - do we need to log certain operations in order to help with customer support or for auditing? Do you have the internal staff to manage changes?

Developer 384

Developer Founder Viral Oauth 384

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Team: Who is on your management team? With the rise of new cannabis companies, it is important to differentiate your cannabis company from the competition, whether you are opening a farm, extraction operation, or dispensary. What differentiates your cannabis company from the one down the street? Your operations plan.

Business Plan 154

Business Plan Technical Review Forecast Software Review 154

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 12, 2023

You can break down more significant, long-term goals into smaller, achievable milestones, making progress more manageable and measurable. By understanding your competition and the methods they use to succeed in the market, you can identify opportunities for differentiation and improvement in your business strategy.

Differentiation 147

Differentiation Metrics Operations Lean 147

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

We’d managed to secure another infusion of cash, but it wasn’t going to last long. When I asked our trade show manager, she looked surprised and said, “Steve, don’t you know that my job is to take our booth to trade shows and set it up?” What I was hearing was a failure of management. No one had on-boarded these people.

Startup 323

Startup PR Public Relations Channel 323

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The first ones address trends that I see in the market today, while the rest are meant to force you to be proactive in managing your own team and organization to anticipate the level of change I’m sure you will face ahead. Client cost differentials of less than twenty percent are usually not enough to incent change.

Marketing 290

Marketing Leadership Differentiation Equity 290

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. Rob Bailey is the CEO of DataSift. You should read it.

Advisory Board 365

Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. He looked at his resume, and asked just one question: “ What’s your edge? ” My friend got the job because his answer was differentiated, credible, and backed up by a history of investing success. – Thoughtful fund management.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. He looked at his resume, and asked just one question: “ What’s your edge? ” My friend got the job because his answer was differentiated, credible, and backed up by a history of investing success. – Thoughtful fund management.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

There isn’t one most important SaaS metric. Being focussed on SaaS metrics is not incompatible with valuing employee fulfillment and customer happiness. “New role” can mean sophistication, management, or a different job. If the former, you need large differentiation — more than a feature or two.

Restful 202

Restful Founder Revenue Acquisition 202

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Combining these goals and objectives will give you meaningful metrics to track. Objective Goal Metrics Grow the business Increase awareness and perceived value Followers, fans, shares, retweets, etc. Pick out six to eight brands that operate in the same space and speak to the same audience.

Social Media 142

Social Media Media Developer Marketing 142

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You work tirelessly to understand your customer, market, and competition so you can differentiate. In this article, we’ll share key brand tracking metrics and methods for how to measure and optimize your success. Key brand tracking metrics. Brand tracking is how you measure if those efforts are paying off. Brand loyalty.

Metrics 157

Metrics Marketing Campaign Audience 157

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Operating Costs. So while the simplest way that people often evaluate stocks is by P/E ratios (price-to-earnings), one also needs to look at other metrics such as the PEG (price-to-earnings-growth). [of

Startup 418

Startup Revenue Technical Review Flash 418

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 13, 2021

If your idea is something that doesn’t actually reflect how anything in the space actually operates, because you have little to no experience in that space, nor have you spent significant time getting up to speed, you’re playing startup.

Startup 156

Startup Term Sheet Differentiation Cofounder 156

ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2023

In a landscape where IPOs are few and far between, certain tech companies have managed to seize the moment and captivate the market with their stellar public offerings. These companies primarily sell access to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products, but they frequently face challenges in achieving operating leverage.

IPO 107

IPO Startup Initial Public Offering eCommerce 107

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

supply chain management, marketing), but not a good product. With earlier stage companies investors generally don’t have the luxury of being able to rely on hard metrics and instead have to rely on gut feel – i.e. ‘direct’ evaluation. Finally, investors often ask ‘third party’ experts for an opinion.

Technical Review 123

Technical Review Product Venture Capital Valuation 123

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn about how a demand generation manager benefits an organization and which qualities they need to fuel your sales pipeline. What is a demand generation manager and why do they matter? The role of a demand generation manager (DGM) is to manage the team and the campaigns that create awareness and interest.

Demand 95

Demand Management B2B Campaign 95

ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

So the brand experience on Twitter is not joined up with Facebook or LinkedIn, and content is often pushed out to each platform with no differentiation or personalization. According to the Journal of Marketing Management , a seamless omnichannel customer experience is built on: Consistency; Synchronization; Freedom in channel selection.

Customer 118

Customer Marketing Channel Audience 118

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 10, 2023

These technological advancements have revolutionized the way businesses operate and have the potential to unlock tremendous value for organizations that can successfully leverage them. By doing so, they can differentiate themselves from competitors and build a loyal and motivated team.

Artificial Inteligence 120

Artificial Inteligence Social Media Employee Forecast 120

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. Very useful perspective - as a first-time CEO managing a small startup, these ideas are timely and thought-provoking. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The majority of companies have a global footprint that is larger than their origin operations, far removed from HQ. The differentiation and the benefits of a cultural ‘add’ versus a ‘fit’ can are becoming very obvious now and are shown in the below model. The changing cultural landscape. Embedding a diversity.

Framework 184

Framework Government Retention Hiring 184

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2014

He ties business success and your personal summit to elevating your customers’ experience with the following specific recommendations and key differentiators: Listen to the individual customer. Engagement and an emotional connection will make a customer relationship the driving force for loyalty and differentiation.

Customer 245

Customer Differentiation .Net Social Media 245

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 9, 2017

One of the key challenges facing Small Business Owners (SBOs) is what to delegate and what to manage. Every business operates to a standard. How the business interacts with their customers is critical to differentiation. Determine Performance Metrics. But that small-scale mentality can be a trap.

Small Business 174

Small Business Texas Differentiation Business Model 174

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2012

By moving forward with a highly focused customer relationship management initiative, you can gather and leverage more information about your customers. Don’t focus only on your products and operational efficiencies, unless you already have the brand image and leverage to prosper with price as the key differentiating factor.

Customer 225

Customer Startup Retention Differentiation 225

Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Our skills and expertise go well beyond that, encompassing brand management, the art of persuasion, understanding nuanced audiences and channels, a genuine flair for language crafting and creative writing, and borderline-obsessive grammar knowledge.”. Furthermore, metrics help you continually refine and improve your marketing over time.

Small Business 153

Small Business Marketing Software Review Technical Review 153

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 22, 2024

When it comes to startups, the focus often gravitates toward acquiring new customers, expanding market reach, and chasing growth metrics. Cross-selling and upselling strategies enhance client account management by identifying additional needs and opportunities for revenue growth within existing key accounts.

Retention 148

Retention Reputation Startup Social Network 148

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. It's as simple as that, and that is what metrics are to me. A great example of that community was the Basecamp community.

Community 51

Community Kuwait Cofounder Bootstrapping 51

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

He’s been involved in operations, digital transformation and IT, and is a trusted advisor and go-to speaker. I’d led the systems integration as CIO of the Gillette company into P&G in 2005, and run multi-billion dollar IT and Shared Services operations in every region of the world. And the success metrics show that.

Philippines 124

Philippines Business Model Engineer Operations 124

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

A new pricing or packaging model does not by itself represent a meaningful core differentiation, and the rising abundance of “subscription” or “flash sales” companies heightened our concern with regard to barriers to entry. For starters, the business metrics are quite compelling. Only with precision execution can one hope to succeed.

eCommerce 62

eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2015

He ties business success and your personal summit to elevating your customers’ experience with the following specific recommendations and key differentiators: Listen to the individual customer. Engagement and an emotional connection will make a customer relationship the driving force for loyalty and differentiation.

Customer 120

Customer .Net Differentiation Social Media 120

ConversionXL

AUGUST 10, 2021

This article assumes you: Already deeply know your audience and have conducted research to understand what types of posts will resonate with them Have a solid brand messaging strategy in play, so you can emulate relevant, customer-centric content on social Have clearly defined goals tied to measurable metrics (e.g.

Metrics 152

Metrics Audience Curation Algorithm 152

Gust

DECEMBER 24, 2012

By moving forward with a highly focused customer relationship management initiative, you can gather and leverage more information about your customers. Don’t focus only on your products and operational efficiencies, unless you already have the brand image and leverage to prosper with price as the key differentiating factor.

Customer 166

Customer Startup Retention Differentiation 166

David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

This allows readers to differentiate your file from all of the other files they receive, and also easily track the evolution of your document as it changes. One of our biggest pet peeves is reviewing an operational model that starts in “Month 1″, and excludes anything that has happened in the past.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet Software Review Forecast Acquisition 60

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We’re looking at our lean business planning is about strategy, tactics, concrete specifics including milestones, metrics, tasks and schedule, and essential numbers to run a business, all of which lead to managing cash flow. It’s objective is internal management. This is real management. It is not a document.

Lean 60

Lean Business Plan Video Software Review 60

YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2014

Effectively managing the supply chain. Most of today’s CEOs, CFOs, chief operating officers, boards of directors, and shareholders speak the language of this hard edge. It’s their comfort zone: numbers, metrics, analytics, logistics, strategies, and a well-defined and easy-to-see ROI. Controlling costs. Boosting speed.

Analytics 160

Analytics Forecast Cofounder Agile 160

Up and Running

JULY 12, 2016

For the traditional business plan to be used as a business summary for potential investors, bank loan managers, partners, or legal requirements, a short summary of company history is usually appropriate. That might be with strategy, tactics, milestones, metrics, or projected sales and spending.

Business Plan 60

Business Plan Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch Lean 60

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 10, 2020

Nic Brisbourne is Managing Partner at Forward Partners, the UK’s leading early-stage VC, currently supporting the UK’s next generation of AI, e-commerce and marketplace businesses. And what are the metrics for customer love? As you operate at the early stage, how do you help a company scale? What are your benchmarks?

Partner 68

Partner Early Stage Portfolio Metrics 68

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

monday.com produced a series of YouTube videos that outline specific features of their work management system and show them in a real-life scenario. This video on project management workflows addresses common customer pain points immediately: “Today, I’ll show you how to set priorities, align on goals, manage resources, and more.”.

Lead Generation 107

Lead Generation Demand Audience eCommerce 107