Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 26, 2024

This involves partnering with suppliers, prioritizing fair labor practices, and using sustainable materials. When selecting suppliers, consider factors such as the origin of raw materials, the manufacturing process, and the working conditions of employees. Use these metrics to assess your progress and identify areas for improvement.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In a nutshell, an LMS helps a school or business deliver their training materials to their employees or students. LMS is commonly used for member training, employee onboarding , compliance training, partner training, and more. An LMS can also be used to train current employees to keep their training up to date.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

In his classic 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

JANUARY 8, 2021

It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. The process must be employee friendly, as well as customer friendly, and have feedback mechanisms to correct poor results. Make your service deliver process “happy.”

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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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Board Effect

AUGUST 18, 2023

Do your employees work in a climate that is accepting and accommodating of differences? Here are some examples: Are you partnering with a group that, while it feeds children, also generates an unsustainable amount of environmental waste? Do you receive donations from a company with a track record of employee complaints?

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Board Effect

JUNE 25, 2023

Donors, volunteers, and partners support nonprofits because of their missions. A growing number of people are deciding where to put their time, money and energy based not only on the goals of a nonprofit, but also its commitment to environmental sustainability, leadership, employee diversity and other social responsibility issues.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

Steve Cannon, president and CEO of MBUSA, worked with his dealer partners to make customer-centric changes to their compensation structures. The idea is to create true partnerships with your employees, to share risks and rewards in a very concrete way—and it’s hard to get more concrete than the numbers on your bonus check.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2021

55 percent of employees with flexible work options are high performers, compared to just 36 percent of onsite nine-to-five employees, according to a Gartner report. times more prone to encounter digital distractions than onsite employees. What goals will the employee need to set and meet in terms of their individual tasks?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

By being proactive, and empowering and rewarding your frontline employees for improving processes, you will enhance your business productivity and growth in both the short term as well as the long term. Explore partners and M&A to solidify your strategy. Make process improvement a constant focus.

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Board Effect

APRIL 15, 2024

These include increased employee satisfaction, better volunteer and donor engagement, stronger collaboration as well as added creativity and innovation. As DE&I awareness grows , nonprofits and their boards are reminded of the intrinsic social justice and the benefits from implementing authentic DE&I policies and practices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

Customers expect you to provide access via their mobile devices, as well as being responsive to sales and support questions on social media and multiple Internet channels and partners at their whim. The marketing metrics covers support as part of experience. Company amazingly finds you based on your interests.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2023

I have personally worked as an employee of large businesses, as well as a partner in new ventures, and found the latter to have more potential for satisfaction. As an employee, you only get to execute what others tell you, even if you enjoy the challenge of new requirements and customer feedback.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 19, 2019

Now, with his business Wellness Works Management Partners, Brandon manages multiple private practices and consults with entrepreneurs and health practitioners worldwide. Describe your professional background and how it led you to create Wellness Works Management Partners. What does Wellness Works Management Partners do?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2019

Yes, change is daunting, but the right change, partnered with experience of credible suppliers and partners, can help unlock the potential of mobile apps. Perhaps your mobile app opportunity could provide ROI in one of these ways: Employee Retention. Cost Saving by Automation. Subscription Savings.

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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 if all I need to do is make some customer calls, interview potential employees or help with his fund-raising decks – hallelujah.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. There is no magic lever for growth, so several initiatives are required, with metrics to assess value returned. There is no magic lever for growth, so several initiatives are required, with metrics to assess value returned. Ask every employee to focus on sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2017

The command and control leadership of the past is proving to be too inflexible, devoid of values, and not empathic to people issues – customers, employees, and partners. It now means shared values and true empowerment, which is the new key to employee productivity and profitability.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

By implementing robust processes and partnering with reliable service providers, businesses can streamline their accounts receivable operations, ensuring timely payments and safeguarding their financial well-being. Monitor and Analyze AR Metrics – Regularly monitor key AR metrics to track performance and identify areas for improvement.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

Whether it’s time, energy, power, or any number of other metrics, businesses have become wasteful because they adopt a result-oriented approach. Require Your Partners’ Transparency. You will always have to deal with multiple other partners, suppliers, and consumers. Business isn’t a one-way street.

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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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VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s not a surprise, given that entrepreneurs are obsessed with data and metrics, but in the conservative VC market of 2024, it feels even more important for founders to know what ‘good’ looks like and what investors expect. Metric Unremarkable Good Excellent Outlier ARR <$500k $500k-$1.5m $1.5m-$2.5m >$2.5m

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Metrics like Return on Net Assets, Return on Capital and Internal Rate of Return are the guiding stars of the board and CEO. As Harvard professor Clayton Christensen noted, these efficiency metrics provided wise guidance for times when capital was scarce and raising money was hard. This is the kind most of us are familiar with.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Decide early where and when money will come from, set some milestones and metrics, and work to a plan, or be caught short. To get the visibility and distribution you need will likely require one or two levels of partner relationships and a real model for marketing, events and promotions. Everyone must be part of the sales process.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Find the right partners. So, you need to find mentors, partners, and employees who are. Now, not every business can immediately hire more employees, and you may not have someone you want to bring on as an official partner. Recommended Reading: How to Write a Business Plan in 7 Steps.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Since NewTV won’t be making the content, they will be licensing from and partnering with traditional entertainment producers. NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in. And it may work.

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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. We think of it much more in terms of how many employees does the company have? Jonathan Siddharth .

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The best way to get your company laser-focused on the bottom line, though, is to have a clear, actionable metric for your entire company and ensure everyone and everything works in alignment with it. Set aside time to review metrics, evaluate clientele, or whittle down precise goals for the future. Want to double your sales?

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Instead of budget approvals, monitor key metrics and give managers more flexibility. The next most important set of metrics are sales by category; working capital (cash and other current assets, less current liabilities); EBITA; and gross margin. Traditional budgets can be destructive and a huge waste of time.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Marketing Coach A marketing coach normally assists business owners or marketing teams with training material, acting as an accountability partner and recommending strategic actions, but is not involved in the implementation at all. Hiring, managing, and sometimes promoting employees are commonly known responsibilities of a fractional CMO.

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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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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

When you begin treating your employees as assets rather than expenses, they'll be able to tap into their real potential; this will give both parties a win-win situation because teams want the opportunity to encourage their growth and boost their performance, which means greater productivity from both those working side-by-side at any given moment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In my view, it’s really unfortunate that most employees in business are still paid by the hour, regardless of their productivity. The first benefit of this approach is that it forces you to quantify your business objectives at every level, and employees know exactly what is expected of them, rather than just plodding through another day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

Network extensively for partners, investors, and suppliers. Successful business teams today extend beyond face-to-face employees, to include freelancers and remote jobs. Define key metrics to measure progress and success. Use comparable metrics for managing team member results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2021

Every entrepreneur’s first priority should be the alignment of interests across the range of constituents required for success – partners, investors, customers, vendors, and employees. It certainly is likely that you will have to get new strategic partners, and market to a new segment of customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

The full financial details and metrics were in the deck. So my time was freed up to call board members in advance and walk them through our metrics and understand any concerns. And it turns out that employee reviews matter. Didn’t have employees sign non-solicitation agreements? HR & Legal. Shame on you.

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