Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 19, 2024

We’ll explore the shifting workplace landscape and show you how to create an environment where your team isn’t just productive but truly engaged and fulfilled. This heightened clarity and purpose translates into improved job satisfaction, increased productivity, and overall performance gains.

Product 52

Product Software Review Employee Technical Review 52

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As an investor in startups, I most often see entrepreneurs who are technologists, or at least have a real passion for a specific product. They rarely highlight their marketing and relationship skills , even though, in my experience, these are more often the key to success in business than product skills.

Silicon Valley 284

Silicon Valley Technical Review Leadership Metrics 284

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2023

For example, only a few people today still think of Amazon as an online provider of books and related goods, now that they have exploded their business world-wide into every product arena, added web services (AWS), television and film production (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), a bricks-and-mortar grocery chain (Whole Foods), and more.

Partner 350

Partner Operations Metrics Leadership 350

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Even after many years mentoring entrepreneurs and advising businesses, I continue to be surprised by the primary focus on products and processes, and the often incidental attention to hiring and nurturing the right people. It’s the same for customers and products, where analytics have long proven their value.

Analytics 303

Analytics Hiring Open Source Employee 303

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. Client posted a video of a soon to be released product on their Facebook brand page. The new product became the number one selling product in the company's history in that country.

Metrics 165

Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Mr. Everhart distills his leadership insights from many decades in one of the largest business-to-business marketing agencies, working with companies across the country. You must have a strong Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) with a clear strategy for spending, and metrics to gauge results.

Acquisition 250

Acquisition Cost Customer Sales Cycle 250

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

If they were a commercial company, they figured out product/market fit; or if a government organization, it focused on solution/mission fit. HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc.

Government 323

Government Technical Review Acquisition Metrics 323

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

Again, the solution is a partner who is the voice of reason, who filters all of the visionary’s ideas, and helps eliminate hurdles, stumbling blocks, and barriers for the whole leadership team. The organization can’t keep up the pace of change, and soon loses motivation, productivity, and all sense of where they are headed.

Partner 206

Partner Cofounder Startup Bandwidth 206

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2022

Based on their years of experience as successful executives and productivity consultants, they and I agree that focusing on these key positive elements will more likely get you the accountability you desire: Set clear and high standards of performance. Make sure they are seen as based on metrics, and belong to the performer.

Leadership 362

Leadership Social Network Metrics Employee 362

Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

Four Negative Data Leadership Archetypes. Bubble Kings most commonly reside in organizations where there is little to no accountability (or misplaced accountability, ex: celebration of vanity metrics). Data pukes do nothing to make an organization intelligent, while providing the feeling of competence and productive output.

Leadership 80

Leadership Non-Compete Analytics Software Review 80

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

Again, the solution is a partner who is the voice of reason, who filters all of the visionary’s ideas, and helps eliminate hurdles, stumbling blocks, and barriers for the whole leadership team. The organization can’t keep up the pace of change, and soon loses motivation, productivity, and all sense of where they are headed.

Founder 329

Founder Cofounder Bandwidth Matching 329

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2023

Strategies For Successful Product Launches written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Mary Sheehan In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Mary Sheehan. She is an accomplished product marketing leader who has held marketing leadership roles at Adobe, Google, and many startups.

Product 60

Product Framework Technical Review Cofounder 60

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2019

by Adam Zimman, VP of Product and Platform of LaunchDarkly. Tools that will help you with this include product delivery and tracking tools. #2. Because you already thought about success metrics in the planning stage, you should be ready to measure whether or not it was successful. Reflect on both process and product.

Metrics 147

Metrics Software Engineering Software Sales 147

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

Management 85

Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 30, 2024

Employees from various backgrounds can provide insights into different market segments, enabling companies to tailor their products and services more effectively. This engagement leads to higher productivity and lower turnover rates. These platforms share their distinctive metrics, ensuring you reach a broad talent pool.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Metrics Leadership Retention 52

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. Don’t wait for a short-term crisis, or a long-term one, to force process improvements. Build and model a high-performance culture.

Technical Review 312

Technical Review Due Diligence Merger Social Media 312

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 11, 2024

Beginning with the Metronome effect, In our conversation, Shannon Susko defines the Metronomics framework and explains how it can revolutionize the way CEOs and leadership teams approach growth, strategy, and execution. But it's metrics and metrics. So a metric represents a widget. This is John Jantsch. Within six years.

Framework 73

Framework Leadership Widget Metrics 73

Berkonomics

JULY 7, 2022

Another leadership development bit? Skip or stay with me; but think about your balance in your leadership methods either way. But we all should be aware of the three levels of leadership that each of us experience as we create, grow and nurture our various enterprises, no matter what their size. The conundrum of competing needs.

Leadership 117

Leadership Metrics Email Developer 117

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2019

True business success and leadership starts with real personal values, extends to building a team, and finally to inspiring customers and your community. That’s a huge leap from an entrepreneurial idea, to a product, to making money. In business, consistency is the key to productivity and trust by team members and customers alike.

Leadership 234

Leadership Reputation Metrics Partner 234

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. The goal of market penetration is to leverage new tactics to increase product sales , including existing customers and new customers within existing markets. Product development. Market penetration.

Marketing 115

Marketing Framework Metrics Channel 115

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2014

For example, early adopters may be easily sold, but new technology product success really hinges on adoption by certain demographics, perhaps more influenced by celebrities or mommy bloggers. The last thing you need in a startup is a false start, where you can’t deliver on a product change deadline, or a new marketing channel.

Metrics 271

Metrics Technical Review Leadership Framework 271

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2022

This simply means making it standard practice in your new startup of building a paper trail of contracts (no verbal contracts) between partners and vendors, customer transactions, and internal processes with team performance metrics. Never make people ask.

Leadership 290

Leadership Dividend Metrics Entrepreneur 290

Board Effect

JUNE 20, 2023

Boards will need to avail themselves of help from technology including dashboards and metrics to provide up-to-date information for better decision-making while also increasing transparency. 2. From their partnership will come thought leadership. Both parties must be willing to put all the issues on the table.

Software Review 81

Software Review Technical Review Government Community 81

The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

They not only have to create a new product or service that is innovative and appealing to customers, but they also have to do it quickly and efficiently. The ultimate goal is to boost productivity and performance to stay competitive in an increasingly digital market. Startup companies are under a lot of pressure to succeed.

Technical Review 130

Technical Review Startup Agile Technology 130

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Value Creation: Creating new products, services, value propositions and business models. This may include new processes, metrics, incentive systems, or changing organizational structures. Innovation Culture: What are the blockers and enablers of innovation in your company – How much time does your leadership spend on innovation?

Portfolio 379

Portfolio Business Model Metrics Programming 379

Board Effect

JUNE 15, 2023

Boards will need to avail themselves of help from technology including dashboards and metrics to provide up-to-date information for better decision-making while also increasing transparency. 2. From their partnership will come thought leadership. Both parties must be willing to put all the issues on the table.

Community 83

Community Software Review Technical Review Government 83

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It’s not leadership. The military has three of the four pieces of the puzzle you need: strategy, access to technology, leadership. Leadership was not the problem. Strategy, technology, leadership – those were fine. The second is a preference for product over strategy. It’s not technology. Organization Design.

Technical Review 370

Technical Review Taiwan Technology Design 370

Board Effect

JUNE 15, 2023

Boards will need to avail themselves of help from technology including dashboards and metrics to provide up-to-date information for better decision-making while also increasing transparency. 2. From their partnership will come thought leadership. Both parties must be willing to put all the issues on the table.

Community 72

Community Software Review Technical Review Government 72

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2018

by Keith Martino , head of CMI and author of “Expect Leadership”. Soon production managers picked up on the insular mentality and it spread. They created their own metrics and over-hyped the rivalries. Are team meetings energetic and productive? He praised their competitive, “take no prisoners” mentality.

Leadership 113

Leadership Incubator Metrics Sales 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2022

True business success and leadership starts with real personal values, extends to building a team, and finally to inspiring customers and your community. That’s a huge leap from an entrepreneurial idea, to a product, to making money. In business, consistency is the key to productivity and trust by team members and customers alike.

Leadership 349

Leadership Reputation Metrics Partner 349

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2023

Every business owner and entrepreneur like you I work with wishes they could better predict product demand and sales, for managing inventory and long-term business planning. We all have our favorite metric and our passion, but keeping up with real-world changes and trends seems to be always just out of reach.

Metrics 204

Metrics Demand Analytics Leadership 204

Board Effect

JUNE 22, 2023

Boards will need to avail themselves of help from technology including dashboards and metrics to provide up-to-date information for better decision-making while also increasing transparency. 2. From their partnership will come thought leadership. Both parties must be willing to put all the issues on the table.

Software Review 82

Software Review Technical Review Government Community 82

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. Growth is more than simply repackaging existing products, and adding bells and whistles or slick incentives. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

Mezzanine 368

Mezzanine Private Equity Bandwidth Metrics 368

Board Effect

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

By understanding what members value and require, the credit union has been able to offer the right products and services to maximize its value proposition.“The Credit unions can partner with fintechs to help transform legacy processes so they can offer new products, services and technologies to current members.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Technology Software Review Georgia 75

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2013

For example, early adopters may be easily sold, but new technology product success really hinges on adoption by certain demographics, perhaps more influenced by celebrities or mommy bloggers. The last thing you need in a startup is a false start, where you can’t deliver on a product change deadline, or a new marketing channel.

Startup 253

Startup Metrics Technical Review Leadership 253

Board Effect

APRIL 15, 2024

Research from Diversity Council Australia’s Inclusion@Work Index consistently shows organizations that focus on building an inclusive workplace are more productive, high-performing and better at managing problems and identifying risks. Measuring DE&I progress Use tools and metrics. “To It takes intentionality.

Ireland 57

Ireland Ohio Government Equity 57

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Most new businesses need three to five advisors or board members to regularly evaluate progress and resource needs, as well as your own leadership. Quantify the results, and avoid any fuzzy words, such as better usability, advanced technology, or more productivity. Put operational systems and metrics in place early.

Marketing 290

Marketing Leadership Differentiation Equity 290