YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 20, 2020

However, a good application development team can offer you suggestions about payroll management and human resource procedures (HR). Your business can also use the payroll system to print payslips, deal with social declarations, and internalize leave management. Compliance Assurance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

In both cases, it’s easy for them to become frustrated and give up, since most have never been trained in change management, and don’t even know what questions to ask. Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. It takes a strong team and strong leadership to manage it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2021

For example, I commonly see metrics to keep track of revenue per employee, overtime, and absenteeism, but I don’t often see measures of overall customer satisfaction with individual employees. Incentives should be a combination of metrics and recognition to highlight results. Incent and reward employees who delight customers.

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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. We don’t want to compete for the largest AUM (assets under management) with the biggest firms in a race to build the “Goldman Sachs of VC” but it’s clear that this strategy has had success for some.

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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. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers. Manage risk – don’t just “move fast and break things.”

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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. Supplement brand loyalty metrics with qualitative measures such as brand associations and perceived quality, as these can give you insight into why customers intend to repurchase.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 21, 2025

Performance management software is at the forefront of this evolution, offering solutions that streamline the review process while providing customized options tailored to an organization’s needs. This can be effectively addressed through structured training programs that help managers deliver balanced and impactful feedback.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

What are your key Startup Metrics ? Content Management How often will the application’s content need to change? Analytics/Metrics What key startup metrics will you need to track? What metrics will you need for future funding rounds or operations? A Product Manager? What channels will you use (e.g.,

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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. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers. Manage risk – don’t just “move fast and break things.”

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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. Modern information management tools. People relationship focus.

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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. Modern information management tools. People relationship focus.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Board meeting gets scheduled Nobody thinks too much about it until a week or two before Management team has a last-minute scramble to pull materials together Management is super focused on its daily work of … winning customers, signing biz dev, shipping product … so this prep is a last minute “fire drill” and is seen as a slight distraction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Many risks can be managed or calculated to improve growth or provide a competitive edge, while others, like skipping quality checks to save money, are recipes for failure. The challenge is to avoid the bad risks, while actively seeking and managing the smart risks. Risk is more manageable with subscriptions and even freemium pricing.

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Define realistic metrics to keep track of progress. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. You need metrics to incentivize the right team behaviors. Your challenge will be to break down silos, manage diverse and inclusive perspectives, and capitalize on cross-functional insights.

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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. A growing team needs skilled managers and an HR organization.

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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. Every balanced leader does marketing early.

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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. Set milestones and manage to those targets. Remember that early and consistent measurement is the first step leading to better control and quicker improvements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Chip Bell and Ron Zemke, who are experts in this area, provide some of the best specific insights I’ve seen, in the classic book “ Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service.” It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2021

A required metric is average days to payment compared to expectations. Entrepreneurs should sign every check and manage cash personally, rather than delegate this task to anyone. Considering the job done once a client has been invoiced. A startup must ensure that the payments are collected per agreed terms.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2025

Michael later served as a group partner, managing director, and CEO of YC. 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. Manage operations leanly: The most common problem for startups is spending too much money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Employees are still too often thought of as a commodity, to be acquired “just in time” for the lowest cost, and managed as a disposable asset. Use data analysis and metrics to measure for results. Most companies I know will claim to be busy collecting and analyzing data, but very few actually use it to drive people management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Leaders and investors need to know if you have and are tapping into your key sources of relevant data, including web analytics, sales management data, and customer relationship management (CRM) software. We want to make sure you can break down the silos and manage to results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Using metrics to measure results and commitments. Managing people and results require the ability to track progress and reward the right people. Managing time and priorities for maximum impact. You need to highlight value for all parties to make every deal a win-win for all , rather than win-lose.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2024

2. Integrate Inventory, Ordering, and Shipping Systems Linking your ecommerce platform to your order management and shipping software streamlines order processing. Look at metrics like average order processing time, shipping errors, delivery times by carrier, and packing/handling costs. Tweak processes to run more efficiently.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

Don’t manage details and hold people accountable. Balance here comes again from the operational expert, who is very good at leading, managing, and holding people accountable. Good integrators are fanatical about problem resolution and making decisions.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

We’d managed to secure another infusion of cash, but it wasn’t going to last long. When I asked our trade show manager, she looked surprised and said, “Steve, don’t you know that my job is to take our booth to trade shows and set it up?” What I was hearing was a failure of management. This is a big idea.

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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. If you start building too close to core systems, a transformation can cause problems as managers try to juggle and prioritize current operations. Not having a means to measure holistic impact.

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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. You can counter positively by encouraging everyone to go home on time, managing meetings carefully, and coaching positively.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

An example of the systems companies build are pricing & revenue management tools to best help to optimize yield. In a world where startup manuals tell you to just hire engineers or product managers, I would tell you that biggest missing ingredient to successful startups scaling is hiring more Ted Conbeers in the systematization phase.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

I too often see people who are quick to make excuses, blame failures on peers or customers, or see management as the reason for their lack of productivity. Don’t expect your manager and other leaders to always see your contributions. Accountability requires that you manage your own efforts, as well as keep others up to speed.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 19, 2025

Many struggle to establish their online presence effectively while managing day-to-day operations. It combines website development, search engine optimization, social media marketing, and online reputation management into one cohesive solution. ” The impact shows in concrete business growth metrics. Hibu, a U.S.-based

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

At the time, I spent most of my time describing the metrics themselves and how VCs and their LPs evaluate performance based on these measurements. If you aren’t familiar with these metrics, I recommend reading the original post to get a sense of the numbers that I’ll be reviewing here. So, is this good or bad? LP Constraints.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The DoD buys hundreds of billions of dollars of products and services per year, and nearly all of these purchases are managed by Program Executive Offices. Program Managers (PMs) work with the PEO and manage subsets of the larger program. Think of the PEO Directory linked below as a “Who buys in the government?” phone book.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

97% of business owners say that online business reputation management is important. Let’s explore the breadth of your digital footprint and help you establish a framework for managing your reputation online. Online or digital reputation management is the act of influencing how people perceive your company or brand online.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

Make sure clients know how you manage your business. 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?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2020

But to have a marketing strategy that works best for you, you need to lay hands on an enterprise email marketing service that will manage your subscribers, content, and campaigns efficiently. All you’ve got to do is to set your emails properly and voila, half your job’s done! High volume deliverability.

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