Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Each Program Executive Office is headed by a Program Executive Officer who is a high ranking official – either a member of the military or a high ranking civilian – responsible for the cost, schedule, and performance of a major system, or portfolio of systems, some worth billions of dollars. It is likely incomplete and contains errors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2013

Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. That means you have to start with assessing the current state against the same metrics, before you can assess progress or change. Make sure metric results are available to the team, to keep them motivated.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

If you do build the MVP and show it to them, they will ask you about your metrics. They really want metrics, not a product. How much is it costing you to get users? The real question you should be asking is "When I've built this product and show you the following metrics, would you invest?"

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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Here is another often overlooked area of process that kills many startups, both in cost and time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

But for founders who do their homework, the cost of entry is lower and the opportunity is higher than ever. The days of lengthy, text-heavy, business plan documents prepared by expensive experts are behind us. The cost of social media done well is low. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

When food and shelter are a freelancer’s two heaviest expenses, a conversation about “costs” sounds absurd, no? Unless you breakfast on caviar, truffles and Dom Pérignon in a Mediterranean villa tended by your manservant Basil, your costs can’t be that bad. However, some freelancing costs don’t appear in the books.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is an important metric for any ecommerce business. Put simply, you need a healthy customer acquisition cost for your business to succeed. In this article, you’ll learn what ecommerce CAC is, how to calculate it, and how to keep costs down to maintain profit health. Your business is unique.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. Build a credible business implementation plan to quantify costs. Even a non-profit needs income to operate.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 8, 2024

Factors to Consider Before Taking on Debt The debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) is a financial metric lenders use to assess a business’s ability to cover its debt obligations. When considering debt options, comparing interest rates, repayment terms, and fees from multiple lenders is crucial to finding the most cost-effective solution.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

But being able to monetize customers and acquire those customers at a low enough cost is quite another. Especially in the early stages of growth, standing up to competition means that your business also needs to minimize the cost of acquiring new customers. This kind of retargeting is highly cost-effective. Customer retention.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2019

Practically speaking, it also keeps your costs down and prevents you from blowing through all of your cash on one failed project.). Documentation and meticulous record keeping is a must for startups. This is the critically important metric that tells you how much of your cash you’re spending on a monthly basis.).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Top marketers are 414% more likely to report success when they document their strategy, according to CoSchedule’s 2022 Trend Report. A marketing playbook, in the traditional sense, is an internal document. Treat your playbook as a living document rather than something set in stone. A playbook does exactly this. Content creation.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

Veritas , the team building a low cost residential wind turbine. In talking to customers, the team found that cities are actively trying to reduce street lighting costs (retrofitting with LEDs, turning off lights, and charging streetlight fees.) Should they look at the Document Management market? Next was D.C.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

To start, don’t swallow the obsolete idea that the business plan must be a long, formal document, as if it were some term paper you have to write. And furthermore, even for those of you who do need to produce a business plan document, the task of writing a formal business plan today is much less daunting than it used to be.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

In this article, we will talk about the trends and the cost of mobile app development with a forecast for 2021. We will see an increase in cloud platforms and a reduction in the cost of sensors. The only thing that prevents smart clothes from becoming a popular trend at the moment is their high cost. Trillion by 2025.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Milestones and Metrics. Ideally, the executive summary can act as a stand-alone document that covers the highlights of your detailed plan. You don’t need to go into excruciating detail here, though–if an investor is interested in more detail they will ask for it, and you can provide that information in a separate document.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2020

Can I afford the cost of any adjustments that need to be made? Your plan doesn’t need to be a lengthy document either, especially if you follow a Lean Planning methodology. It can even start as a one-page pitch document that eventually evolves into a full business plan. . Establish milestones and metrics for your business plan.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 12, 2017

I believe your business plan should be a living document that you regularly consult (think at least quarterly) to measure how you’re doing today versus what you forecasted in your plan. Keep an eye on these important metrics. I found that there was a point where it actually cost me to do business. Accounts payable aging.

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Board Effect

MARCH 23, 2022

A nonprofit fundraising plan is a written document that outlines your nonprofit’s fundraising goals along with a step-by-step plan for bringing them to fruition. A CRM or fundraising software program will yield a wealth of metrics that will help in planning, but also in evaluating the success of your fundraising programs and events.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. Define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure. This kind of a simple model also helps: Define the early proof points for the company.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2014

Of all of them, the most common one to adjust is the Document Path. A good use case is setting the document path as a macro so that you can pass in a virtual pageview for sites that don’t have a “site search” feature that plays nicely with GA. (See Custom Metrics. Settings Configuration. Now onto the different settings.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

Business to Business (B2B) – Also referred to as Enterprise to Enterprise, it is typically utilized to transport documents, equipment, reports, and raw materials from one place to another. Particularly, monitor core metrics like average time taken for delivering a courier, daily active users, and monthly active users.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Small fine-tuned models as an alternative to giant generic ones – when finely tuned with appropriate data, smaller, specialised LLMs can yield comparable results at a fraction of the cost. Artificial Intelligence – Scaling global intelligence and redefining work: AI training costs should continue to fall 75% per year.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2019

Form analytics provide quantitative data on metrics such as field timings, field re-entries, last field before abandonment, completion rates by segment, etc. Some of the tools below track dozens of metrics—even aggregating them into broader field “health” metrics—and visualize those metrics in clear reports. Ten seconds?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

But for founders who do their homework, the cost of entry is lower and the opportunity is higher than ever. The days of lengthy, text-heavy, business plan documents prepared by expensive experts are behind us. The cost of social media done well is low. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

Intellectual Property 120

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents. And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink. It will cost you your job.” I couldn’t care less about those.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

You may already have your vision, mission, and values documented, but don’t worry if you don’t. Some companies chose to thoroughly document these and put them on an office wall or their website. You’re going to need some brand health metrics to track. 3) Develop personas for your target customers.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 5, 2018

Traditional Invoices – Invoices are typically documents generated to collect payment for services rendered or goods delivered within a particular time frame. Even if your business isn’t classed as a small business, more than one in two of all companies will fail because of cash flow related issues. Collect On-Time Payments.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Why you should set up a board at the seed round of funding I know these days with SAFE documents and rolling convertible notes many founders prefer not to set up a board early on. It’s not zero calories but with the right board the benefits should far outweigh the time and emotional costs. But it’s quite rare.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

We redesigned our organization to take advantage of lower labor costs. 11- Paying attention to metrics. Metrics do not lie, and metrics over a longer time period are much more useful to study. Although your company's analytics are vital, simply investigating your own metrics is insufficient.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Change is no longer seen as an opportunity, but as a big risk and cost. That means all realignments require over-communication, in multiple medias – video, voice, documents, and actions. In reality, the costs in maintenance and usability are very high to do things the old way as well as the new.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2020

You do CX a disservice if you focus only on metrics like NPS. To succeed, you need to tie your improvements directly to revenue, reduced churn , lower operational costs, etc. Can you share our company policy documents? I tend to go hunting in Google Drive and project management tools to look for old research documents.).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 31, 2014

Ask Peep about analytics, and he’ll tell you, “Metrics are there to provide actionable insight. You need to look at a metric, ask “so what?” – and have an answer.”. For Brookdale – a community for senior citizens – sticking with video would have cost them $108,000 in monthly revenue. image source.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Even a one-second delay can cost an ecommerce site $25,000–$125,000 per year …or more! More recently, Google Search Console rolled out a Core Web Vitals section, which tracks a set of website performance metrics that focus on user experience. Here are the metrics Google Page Insights measures that specifically relate to SRT.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

How to create a growth hacking strategy using the pirate metrics model. Growth hacking in marketing incorporates the five stages of the customer lifecycle into the “ AARRR Framework ,” otherwise known as the “Pirate Metrics model.”. Take the documentation productivity platform, Swimm. via CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ].

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

Automation in IT helps in mitigating the IT operations risk, reducing costs, improving standards enforcement. However, due to complexities and high costing, organizations tend to avoid automation and rely on manual approaches to their IT operations. Non-standardization of IT architectures hinders the achievement of cost-effective.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Brand equity helps build the relationships between the perceived benefits and perceived costs that people relate to that product. For readers, when the time comes to purchase a document collaboration solution, they’ll remember Bit.ai Customer acquisition cost. That consumer perception can be positive or negative.

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