Occam's Razor

JUNE 10, 2013

I wish we did not have this desire to pulpify a bunch of metrics to produce something recognizable. Here's a summary of our journey in this delightful post… ~ What are Compound Metrics? ~ The Challenge with Compound Metrics: Social Media Edition. Let's go… What are Compound Metrics?

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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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View from Seed

JULY 8, 2020

The remainder of the email should include other highlights, core business metrics, financial metrics, challenges, goals, asks & thanks. Putting aside the governance aspects of a traditional board, there is meaningful value in holding a regular meeting with the company’s most important investor(s).

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

There are four main types of venture studios: Tech transfer studios , such as America’s Frontier Fund , work with companies and/or government labs to source ideas and intellectual property. These studios have different metrics than startup studios whose limited partners are private family offices or venture capitalists.

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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. Establish a governance process to support efforts. Before you act, shut up and listen to employees, customers, and futurists. Take accountability for execution by enabling success through resources, attention, and care.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. And government agencies find themselves being disrupted by adversaries unencumbered by legacy systems, policies and history. The Lean Startup isn’t dead.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 16, 2019

These shifts have necessitated major changes to the hospital governing board structure as we’ve known it in the past. Today’s boards and managers are struggling to keep up with the changes and adjust their governing board structures to meet the needs of their organizations. Governance Changes May Prompt Changes in Board Size.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 21, 2013

Both of these groups, those who took the Innovation Corps class and those who didn’t, applied for government peer-reviewed funding through the SBIR program. Other scientists attempting to commercialize their science were free to pursue their startups without having to take the class.

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Board Effect

MARCH 15, 2022

How to Improve Governance for Your Hospital Board. Improving hospital governance is an issue that has come to the forefront in recent years because many who work in the field believe that clinical governance has taken a back seat to other important managerial issues like policy changes, setting target measures, and performance.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Think of the PEO Directory linked below as a “Who buys in the government?” And which have converted to portfolio management, which have tried OTA contracts, as well as highlighting those who are doing something novel with metrics or outcomes. government intends to communicate this information. So I wrote one. phone book.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

Design and construction cost – the enforcement of strict building codes at different levels of governance coupled by the need to reduce building design and construction cost is fueling the development of green buildings across the US and the rest of the world. The other important social issue is the net tenant health and well-being.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. Here are our thoughts about how to confront the Red Queen trap and adapt a government agency to infuse continuous innovation in its culture and practices. These Horizons also apply to government agencies and other large organizations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

> Uber's " Reality Therapy 4 Startups": What U Need 2 Know NOW > Steve Blank on why NOT to be an Entrepreneur > Airbnb's Globetrotting Lessons: Building 4 a Global Market > Vinod Khosla - The VC Legend: Interview w/ Dave McClure > Eric Ries on Entrepreneurship: What He's Learned Along the Way > GitHub's Secret 2 Success: Rethinking (..)

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Board Effect

JUNE 21, 2024

In the world of mission-driven organizations (MDOs), defining and measuring success goes beyond financial metrics. Moreover, with the increasing demand for accountability and transparency, MDOs must prioritize data-driven metrics and objective governance practices.

Government 52

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

When organizations are small (startups, small teams in companies and government agencies) early employees share a mission (why they come to work, what they need to do while they are at work, and how they will know they have succeeded). And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink.

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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Even the government is watching to see where you fit. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Invested Interests entrepreneur funding investor processes'

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 25, 2012

My hope is to simply help you internalize the impact of these decisions on reports, which metrics might be impacted and which will be fine, as well as what types of decisions you can still make with confidence and which decisions you might make with a grain of salt. Implication on the Visits metric: You get the best case scenario of a Visit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

At your request, we’ve brought in speakers from all kinds of organizations --including young companies, Fortune 500s, mission-driven orgs, and government, and they create websites, apps, games, hardware, consumer goods, social services, media products and more. We’ve tagged the talks by topic , so you can zero in on what interests you most.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. He’ll talk about making a profit and making a difference in a conversation with New Media Ventures’ Christie George. Todd Park convened the team that saved Obamacare.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Conversely, the things you measure well, with easily understood and visible metrics, tend to improve without much extra push. Over this course you’ve heard from the leading voices across the military, government, and industry issue a call to action. More like a surgical strike. 1 is measurement. So how you do that with innovation?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

The government set a goal to increase the percentage of people employed in tech t0 15% but it cannot be achieved overnight. The government has a lot of work ahead to revamp the curriculum and ensure that the periphery and minorities are also versed in STEM subjects at the level of global tech hubs. Strong foundations.

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Board Effect

JUNE 20, 2023

Get Back to Governance Basics Examine the quality of your board orientation training. This is a good place to start getting back to the basics of good governance. Focus on Modern Governance As with any other board leadership position, board members must be willing to objectively assess their own performances.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The governance board and CEO should develop a strong AI framework that outlines the AI strategy and includes guidelines for usage. Include mechanisms and metrics for evaluation in your framework, as well as goals for impact and effectiveness. BoardEffect  is designed with the unique needs of volunteer boards in mind.

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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. Get Back to Governance Basics Examine the quality of your board orientation training.

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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. Get Back to Governance Basics Examine the quality of your board orientation training.

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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. Get Back to Governance Basics Examine the quality of your board orientation training.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Through these applications including its core product CareBook, DataLink helps healthcare payors and providers by resolving gaps in patient care while also improving quality performance metrics.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

14- Government contracting business Photo Credit: Justin Siken Now is an excellent time to start a government contracting business. Government contracting is relatively insulated from broader economic trends and the risk of recession. Thanks to Perry Zheng, Cash flow marketplace ! #14- Thanks to Justin Siken, HigherGov ! #15-

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In a new 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.

Leadership 120

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Underpinning this growth is good governance. In order to understand startup governance, you need to understand risk and reward. This may mean straddling the line between governance and management when necessary. Agenda items will focus on key metrics illustrating value creation, particularly in software as a service companies.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Also during this time, the underlying metrics in that business can change positively, potentially trapping companies to accept the initially-agreed upon valuation. Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. That will take a long time to settle.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

That last bit should sound familiar if you follow theories of Startup Laws & Metrics. When “growth rate” becomes the only important metric for company “fitness,” other metrics are left unsolved. “Profitability” is perhaps the most-talked-about example of a metric left unsolved.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

“A remarkably useful playbook that every business, government, and nonprofit needs to ignite the spark of innovation and fuel the fire of change.”

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

Policies governing employee behaviour, account management, content, security, and legal issues should also be implemented. Goals and Measurements : Like any strategic endeavor, social media marketing must be aligned to the organization’s vision, and cascade downwards into discrete goals, strategies, tactics and metrics.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

In a world where we are overwhelmed with data and metrics and key performance indicators and reports and dashboards and. I must forewarn you that my hidden agenda is also to expose to you metrics you might not be using, views of data that you might be ignoring, best practices that are of value and teach you how to fish. No more silos!

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2017

Embracing the concept of design thinking , an exciting solution used in innovation, can provide learning and development teams with the metrics to justify their important work and ease the minds of anxious senior executives. PROBLEM 2: You don’t have the metrics to prove your value. Patti is president & CEO of ROI Institute.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Most startups have been competent in managing their cash burn by determining how they spend and utilizing government subsidies to meet their goals. It should have speed, adaptability, and the ability to switch gears quickly as part of its success metric. Businesses have had to look for more creative means for funding their success.

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