Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

But it will be patiently deployed, waiting for a cohort of founders who aren’t artificially clinging to 2021 valuation metrics. So we largely sat out fundings of NFTs or other areas where we didn’t feel like we were the expert or where the valuation metrics weren’t in line with our funding goals.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

What are your key Startup Metrics ? Analytics/Metrics What key startup metrics will you need to track? What metrics will you need for future funding rounds or operations? Are there other founders, business leaders, partners, or administrators? How will you be taking this to market? What channels will you use (e.g.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

It’s important to define your growth strategy, document it, communicate it to your team, and align metrics and employee rewards to target goals. Your focus for momentum could be sales, profitability, or number of customers, but trying to keep all possible parameters growing is simply not practical.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

Simple metrics and your personal knowledge of the industry can’t keep up with all the relevant competitive forces. Today’s digital leaders all have a digital platform – a set of algorithms stitched together to collect and analyze key data, and tune their algorithms dynamically for every transaction. You need to be part of a larger ecosystem.

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View from Seed

JULY 8, 2020

The remainder of the email should include other highlights, core business metrics, financial metrics, challenges, goals, asks & thanks. With the new updated NextView Board Deck template, the work is half complete, as you just need to tailor the document to match your company’s business and incorporate in operating metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric. Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology. Build for sustainability and resilience, as well as growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Most of the entrepreneurs I meet as an investor and advisor have no shortage of right-brain thinking, showing vision and creativity, but often don’t realize that their potential is being limited by a balancing focus on results, metrics, and customer specifics. They overwhelm and lose their followers, and they tend to run out of money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Define realistic metrics to keep track of progress. You need metrics to incentivize the right team behaviors. Before you act, shut up and listen to employees, customers, and futurists. Take accountability for execution by enabling success through resources, attention, and care. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric. Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology. Build for sustainability and resilience, as well as growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Use metrics to measure results of marketing initiatives. The risks you want to take are the ones that you planned for in your resources, set up metrics to measure, and manage on an ongoing basis. Almost always, risks are more predictable when you use coopetition for access to new customers, economies of scale, and shared resources.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Freight management software helps brokers track shipments in real-time, optimize routes, and easily analyze performance metrics. Utilizing Technology to Optimize Operations Technology is pivotal in streamlining freight brokerage operations in today’s digital age.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

No matter how passionately you believe that everyone needs one, and positive feedback from friends and early adopters (false positives), before you invest in scaling the business, make sure you set and meet good metrics in cost of customer acquisition, recurring sales, and margin.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2020

Established company process rules and metrics now characterize the leaders in this market stage. If you are an ecommerce startup, this may be your path to fame and fortune. Focus shifts from growth to profitability as a mature market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Use metrics to measure results of marketing initiatives. The risks you want to take are the ones that you planned for in your resources, set up metrics to measure, and manage on an ongoing basis. Almost always, risks are more predictable when you use coopetition for access to new customers, economies of scale, and shared resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive. Measuring progress with big data and analytics. Set milestones and manage to those targets.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 20, 2022

Instrument the process with metrics and diagnostics. Use their work to create a common language and tools for innovation around rapid acceleration of existing mission and delivery. Make permanent delivering products and services at speed with a written innovation doctrine and policy. Get out of the office.

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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. This means articulating and living the customer service mindset for the team, in front of customers and in the board room. Make your service deliver process “happy.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2021

A required metric is average days to payment compared to expectations. Many startups see initial revenue from customers, and love the fast growth, but fail to anticipate the cost of early vendor payments, monthly overhead costs, and later taxes. Considering the job done once a client has been invoiced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

But it is an important metric for firms in pursuit of explosive growth. Wessel also summarizes the costs and potential impacts of creating and building your startup in secondary markets, usually meaning not in Silicon Valley or one of the other super-hubs: It takes longer to raise money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Develop metrics to monitor work intensity. These metrics are also the best way to gauge when your team needs more help, and identifying strong and weak contributors. Let that be part of their job satisfaction.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 20, 2020

Maybe we all need to start talking about grit instead of metrics that can only be achieved with money, and then make sure all entrepreneurs get the funding required to achieve equivalent metrics. The post Thoughts on Sourcing Black Companies and Entrepreneurs appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 21, 2025

Best Practices for Implementation Clarify Expectations: Define performance metrics clearly from the outset and ensure they align with the company’s broader strategic goals. This clarity helps prevent misunderstandings and ensures alignment across the organization.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2024

Look at metrics like average order processing time, shipping errors, delivery times by carrier, and packing/handling costs. Consider leveraging shipping management software to automatically track key metrics and identify areas for improvement. Use analytics to fine-tune your operations and control expenses.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 16, 2022

For that, you need metrics for growth, says Esther Gons. The post Metrics For Growth appeared first on Young Upstarts. If you want to do better, you need to understand how to improve your product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2023

Don’t fail to develop the proper comprehensive metrics for assessing how you and any partners are doing in terms of value creation. Most great business leaders, including Jeff Bezos , maintain a key internal team to study and implement the next steps. Not having a means to measure holistic impact.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 11, 2024

But it's metrics and metrics. So a metric represents a widget. And this allows us to give that connection and the alignment to the team and that word widget and that word metric in regards to a three year highly achievable goal connects your team to where you're going. And that's the difference.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 4, 2025

Measuring Success Measuring the success of short-form video marketing involves analyzing key metrics such as views, shares, engagement rates, and conversion actions. Understanding these metrics allows brands to refine their content strategies continually, ensuring they remain impactful and relevant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

You must have a strong Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) with a clear strategy for spending, and metrics to gauge results. If you think it’s hard to get the technical systems to talk to each other, I have found that it’s even harder to bridge the gulf between the various professionals who interpret them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

Here also the solution usually is a partner with prior experience, who has learned how and when to hire real help, and implement metrics and processes to measure results. They are usually too self-centered to see the need for developing skills and leadership in the other members of the team, or building a succession plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

Clients need to feel comfortable that you expect quality work from your team and technology, and have metrics, modern tools, and controls in place to make it happen. What are your academic credentials, firms serviced, and industry accolades and participation? Make sure clients know how you manage your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Use data analysis and metrics to measure for results. Efficiency in the workplace is the time it takes to do something, but it can ignore work quality and customer impact. Employees are often ineffective because they don’t care about their work or because they don’t possess the skills to contribute. Subjectively measuring employee engagement.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

These studios have different metrics than startup studios whose limited partners are private family offices or venture capitalists. In both North America and Europe, many venture studios in non-major cities are funded by government agencies to stimulate local growth, at times with matching donations from companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

It’s your job as a leader to be the model high performer, quantify the team view with metrics, and expand awareness to the best outside competition and new tools. Every business team becomes inwardly- focused by default, comparing themselves only emotionally to others they know within the organization.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2025

Prioritize growth as the primary metric for fundraising: For Silicon Valley investors, growth is the most important factor, even more so than the team or past experience. Launch a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) quickly: Aim to get something into users’ hands within two months, regardless of the initial state.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2022

Put metrics in place to track decision results. Creative leaders always evaluate opposing alternatives for a positive solution to any issue, even if any similar alternative has failed in the past. Adopt the philosophy that making any decision is only the beginning, rather than the end.

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