Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2023

As a business consultant, I can get you started in this transformation, but I was pleased to see more detailed guidance, including things to watch out for, in a recent book, “ The Ecosystem Economy ,” by Venkat Atluri and Miklos Dietz, both senior partners at McKinsey & Company with much experience.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Here are a few tips to ensure that you and your partners start out on the right foot. A CPA provides input on tax structure and metrics, and assists with due diligence related to your industry. Consider regular face-to-face meetings with prospective partners, so you can gauge body language and “listen between the lines.”

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Define realistic metrics to keep track of progress. You need metrics to incentivize the right team behaviors. In addition to spreading the word internally, you need to create a dialogue externally with partners and customers. Before you act, shut up and listen to employees, customers, and futurists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

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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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2014

As an entrepreneur raised in the era of analytics, I want to find metrics for everything. When I was going through the co-founder “dating” process, I’d found a potential partner through my network who seemed to be perfect. Finding the right business partner for me. But how do you measure (and prove) a gut feeling?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Find a strategic partner to accelerate growth. 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. Everyone wants to forge ahead all alone, and kill every competitor in sight.

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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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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

AUGUST 24, 2022

You must have a strong Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) with a clear strategy for spending, and metrics to gauge results. Outside partners and channel impacts are complex. Of course, you need work with partners and channel to quantity their costs and contributions and normalize total results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Just like you can’t start a business alone, you can’t scale the business without external partners with expertise and access to specific customer sets, channels, manufacturing, and support. Using metrics to measure results and commitments. Managing people and results require the ability to track progress and reward the right people.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. How they see you deal with and talk about peers, partners, team members, and customers tells them what the real rules of conduct are for customer service. Set the tone and lead the way.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. We wanted new things to exist and to solve new problems and to see our creations come to life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

Let’s take a hard look at the key potential weaknesses of a visionary, and the value of an execution-oriented partner, which the authors call an integrator : Staying focused and following through. If your strength is being a visionary, use that vision to attract a complementary partner, and make it a win-win opportunity for both of you.

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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

APRIL 28, 2021

For example, I believe Bill Gates would have failed without his partners Steve Ballmer and Paul Allen. “If we build it, they will come” doesn’t work in today’s worldwide information overload. It takes the right team to build a great business. Paul Allen was the technical visionary, Test the viability of your business parameters.

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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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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The post ARR/FTE as *a* metric for India SaaS appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Find a strategic partner to accelerate growth. 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. Everyone wants to forge ahead all alone, and kill every competitor in sight.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

Venture studios create startups by incubating their own ideas or ideas from their partners. These studios have different metrics than startup studios whose limited partners are private family offices or venture capitalists. Unlike an accelerator, a venture studio does not fund existing startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

We all have goals and expectations, and a backstory that may be inspirational, memorable, and important to potential partners. 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.

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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. How they see you deal with and talk about peers, partners, team members, and customers tells them what the real rules of conduct are for customer service. Set the tone and lead the way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Some people pretend to have answers for everything, and are only looking for followers, rather than partners. Sets goals and milestones, with metrics to track progress. They define metrics for each goal, and diligently track themselves against these metrics. Founder and key partners are role models for results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2020

Very few new startups are getting funded at this stage, and existing ones are looking for strategic partners and being acquired to achieve continued growth. Established company process rules and metrics now characterize the leaders in this market stage. Valuations are back to 3x-5x revenues.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Additionally, exploring competitors and partners on LinkedIn provides avenues to connect with potential candidates. Based on an average deal size of $30,000, metrics include the number of days worked in a month, conversion rates from connect to meetings and ultimately to closed deals.

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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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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

LMS is commonly used for member training, employee onboarding , compliance training, partner training, and more. Types of Metrics Provided by an LMS. Other metrics provided include reports on peer review activity, fastest answers given, sharing activity, content views, and so on. Conclusion.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2023

On average, medical group partners using Collectly’s platform experienced a remarkable 75% increase in patient collections. The “days sales outstanding” metric, measuring the average days to collect payments, reduced from 60-90 days to an impressive 12 days.

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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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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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Feld Thoughts

JULY 20, 2020

I recently was in an email thread where a Black founder had a powerful and clear response to the question from one of her corporate partners. The question was: How can our (the corporate partner’s) team better support diversity in our work, particularly in our sourcing, diligence, and onboarding efforts?

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

As with most platforms, there are metrics that matter, and vanity metrics. With YouTube, for organic, average view duration (AVD) and click-through rate (CTR) should be prioritized over YouTube search optimization, descriptions, tags, and other vanity metrics. Both metrics represent high engagement.

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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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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Hauser Private Equity partnered with the Denver-based private equity firm Revelstoke Capital Partners to make a growth investment in DataLink Fund Solutions, a leading provider of integrated population health management applications.

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