Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2018

Strategic decisions set the overall direction for your business, whereas operational decisions set day-to-day operations. It’s a bit late when strategy becomes operational. Working on the business should not be done in the same ad-hoc crisis style as operational decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Even a non-profit needs income to operate. This means staffing and delivering the business legally as an LLC or corporation, completing a website and business licensing, and arranging for manufacturing, distribution, and support. Build a credible business implementation plan to quantify costs.

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Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch Harvest Technical Review 235

Board Effect

JUNE 25, 2023

Setting ESG standards for operations is a natural fit for nonprofits in light of their missions. The nonprofit board and leadership can set the tone for the organization by requiring ESG data to be collected and distributed. Manage Risk through Reporting An employee makes a claim of discrimination based on their sexual orientation.

Securities and Exchange Commission 52

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Metrics Government 52

ConversionXL

JULY 2, 2019

This ideal task distribution, as we later learned, was far from reality. Inefficient task distribution for each position. To answer them, we knew that we would need to capture before-and-after metrics. Top of mind were the words of Peter Drucker: “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.”). Targetprocess.

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Analytics Metrics Distribution Algorithm 121

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed. The question for all of you is … “ What will it take to inspire and manage this kind of innovation?”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2017

Customers will tell you things when being interviewed, such as their need to improve operational workflow , which they will never tell you while you are selling to them. Distribute an Executive Summary and Recommendations report, as well as transcripts of your interviews, to all the key players in your company.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2021

Many of these businesses have had plans to retain this operational model permanently – but a great deal of these changes were intended to be temporary measures to accommodate the pandemic. . Instead, its better to design your workflows and operational model from the ground up with remote work in mind. . Heading Back to the Office.

Startup 120

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Board Effect

MAY 23, 2023

Technology offers transformative opportunities to enhance collaboration, streamline your operations, and improve decision-making for your community healthcare board. With more to track, board management software ensures that all corporate and clinical governance aspects are covered, up-to-date, and secure.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Community Technology Software Review 52

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Zyla, managing director of Acuitas, Inc., A CPA provides input on tax structure and metrics, and assists with due diligence related to your industry. If you stop working for the company, how will that impact your voting and distribution rights? Mark Zyla is a managing director of Acuitas, Inc., Congratulations!

Partner 208

Partner Technical Review Intellectual Property Due Diligence 208

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Distribute an Executive Summary and Recommendations report, as well as transcripts of your interviews, to all the key players in your company. Integrate the customer buying process into your support operation. Include planned measurements and metrics. Debate and adjust your offering to better match what customers want.

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Revenue Startup Technical Review Business Model 263

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

8- Property management Photo Credit: Jaden Oh Property management is a good way to make money, especially if you already know how to run a business or are good at making software for property management. It's just that many homeowners in this city don't have the time to manage multiple properties.

Software Review 119

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 119

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The first ones address trends that I see in the market today, while the rest are meant to force you to be proactive in managing your own team and organization to anticipate the level of change I’m sure you will face ahead. Put operational systems and metrics in place early. Enlist industry leaders and influencers as proponents.

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Marketing Leadership Differentiation Equity 290

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Luckily, I had always been a “hands-on” professional, and I had learned the pragmatics of people leadership, marketing, management tools, and funding. Adopt a project-based revenue model with metrics. Freelancers can justify their cost based on more direct return on investment calculations at all operational levels.

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Silicon Valley Social Media Software Review Leadership 140

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Sometimes that’s defensible distribution channels. There isn’t one most important SaaS metric. Being focussed on SaaS metrics is not incompatible with valuing employee fulfillment and customer happiness. Find and focus on one reliable distribution mechanism before diluting your time diversifying.

Restful 202

Restful Founder Revenue Acquisition 202

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. But I’m not convinced those labels are right at all.

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San Francisco Management Founder Lean 161

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Distribute an Executive Summary and Recommendations report, as well as transcripts of your interviews, to all the key players in your company. Integrate the customer buying process into your support operation. Include planned measurements and metrics. Debate and adjust your offering to better match what customers want.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

You need to use your time and resources productively by focusing on the right metrics so you can use data to help you implement improvements that matter. The first step is to formulate a KPI strategy by selecting the right metrics to track. Managers should be able to form an actionable response based on the information.

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Founder Retention Metrics Technical Review 71

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

As two fund managers employing Flexible VC, we think it is a healthy addition to the ecosystem and will yield more predictable and stable healthy returns for investors. Too often, investment structures force the management team to make decisions between misaligned growth and investment (return) objectives. Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2011

Distribute an Executive Summary and Recommendations report, as well as transcripts of your interviews, to all the key players in your company. Integrate the customer buying process into your support operation. Include planned measurements and metrics. Debate and adjust your offering to better match what customers want.

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Customer Technical Review Business Model Revenue 242

Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 27, 2022

Business owners often underestimate the importance of supply chain management. The truth is, if your supply chain isn’t managed correctly, it can ruin your business. Let us discuss the basics of supply chain management and how it impacts your business. Proper SCM Lowers Operating Costs.

Management 59

Management Bankruptcy Stock Distribution 59

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

If a business is not making a profit, the entrepreneur may need to manage business finances more efficiently. You will learn to identify key financial metrics and use them to make informed decisions that drive business growth. Risk Management Entrepreneurship is inherently risky, and an MBA can help you mitigate those risks.

CPA 134

CPA Finance Metrics Forecast 134

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In this article, we’ll share key brand tracking metrics and methods for how to measure and optimize your success. Key brand tracking metrics. For example, you could deploy CSAT surveys at various parts of the buyer’s journey (distributed across leads so as not to bombard a single customer with multiple questions).

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Metrics Marketing Campaign Audience 157

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ? I gave my boilerplate answer, “I’m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics. Dave McClure has some great metrics…” It was an honest but vaguely unsatisfying answer.

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Customer Development Web Developer Customer 228

Board Effect

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

They’re most interested in meaningful metrics and the standards you measure them against. The managers at Unbounce wanted to create a content culture where employees could learn about the company’s journey through its ups and downs, so they created Inside Unbounce. Tap Into the Power of Digital Transformation.

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Salary Technical Review Social Media Employee 93

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Many small businesses are turning to customer relationship management systems(CRM) to better understand customer wants and needs. Customer Relationship Management is a technology designed to help your business manage customer relationships and interactions in an organized way. What is CRM? Share information.

Management 116

Management Customer Software Review Technical Review 116

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Entrepreneur Prerna Gupta believes that there’s a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing “Lean” principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method. Dun & Bradstreet is undergoing a big cultural shift.

Lean 60

Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup 60

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

The Rise of Business Schools – Management as an Occupation. These explosions in company size and scale created a demand for professional managers. Its purpose was to educate management on best practices to run existing companies. Here’s why and what we did about it. that took place in the last quarter of the 19th century.

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Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan 436

Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2022

Managing business risk without a clear financial picture is like going on a road trip without a map and hoping you’ll end up at your planned destination. When the business risk is effectively managed, you can determine a clear path forward according to your financial situation. Operating leverage effect (OLE) ratio.

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Equity .Net Balance Sheet Operations 136

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

As we collect more and more data, it’s becoming increasingly hard to piece together and manage that data, and more importantly, to use that data in real-time to build better campaigns. Contact Management: The Beginning. launched a contact management software. All manual operations. Et voilà: the first CRM.

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Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

How will these affect day-to-day operations? Rather than thinking of a business plan as a hefty document that you’ll only use once (perhaps to obtain a loan from a bank), think of it as tool to manage how your business grows and achieves its goals. Milestones and Metrics. Management Team. What are your strengths?

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Venture Capital Business Plan Limited Liability Company Finance 166

Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

But leveraged distribution via platforms (organic/paid search, social networks, mobile devices) and self-service monetization (ad networks, app stores, payments) is what has truly empowered startups to become real scalable businesses on very small amounts of initial capital.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

I think one of the most important things is there's a lot of focus on metrics, and I think metrics is important, but we get caught up in these sort of acronyms and these buzzwords, but really it's all about asking the right questions, right? It's as simple as that, and that is what metrics are to me. 19:23): And guess what?

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Community Kuwait Cofounder Bootstrapping 51

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Image source ).

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. They will need two different implementations, it is quite likely that you will end up with two sets of metrics (more people focused for mobile apps, more visit focused for sites). Google Tag Manager is one such solution. It is free.

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Analytics Metrics Mobile DC 143

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Normal distributions do not exist; standard deviations are meaningless. As a result, any public market downturn will immediately impact unrealized returns of the fund they are managing due to the late and growth stage companies in their portfolio. Betting on the wrong horse.

Harvest 60

Harvest Vertical IPO Early Stage 60

Board Effect

JUNE 21, 2024

In the world of mission-driven organizations (MDOs), defining and measuring success goes beyond financial metrics. The right board management platform empowers boards with meaningful information, automates communication and provides easy access to essential resources, fostering a culture of engagement and motivation.

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