Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Measure your agility by putting metrics on change. Create a non-online memorable customer experience. Find your niche, and it’s probably not competing on price and volume alone. People must be measured in performance reviews against industry best practices, rather than previous results in your business.

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Customer eCommerce Non-Compete Technical Review 130

Austin Startup

MAY 9, 2018

Every so often, I get an email from an entrepreneur that starts something like this: “By reading further, you agree to the terms of our non-disclosure and non-compete agreement” My immediate reaction is to delete these emails with prejudice. I am not alone. VCs get inundated with pitch decks and proposals for new technology.

Non-Compete 55

Non-Compete Stealth Seed Stage Metrics 55

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. After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. Some have labeled this period as irrational exuberance. The Rise of the Lean Startup.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules. In most industries, manufacturing is no longer a core competence of the U.S. Problem 3: Risk equals failure and failure is to be avoided as it indicates a lack of competence.

Community 242

Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 242

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A CPA provides input on tax structure and metrics, and assists with due diligence related to your industry. In a nightmare scenario, an employee can start up a competing company, and leave with customers, employees and intellectual property, demolishing everything you’ve worked hard to build. Must you wear both simultaneously?

Partner 208

Partner Technical Review Intellectual Property Due Diligence 208

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

More specifically, you asked the hard questions, like: How can ecommerce companies compete with Alexa? Voice search will make some companies less competitive, like non-Amazon sellers of commodity goods. For many ecommerce companies, however, competing in voice search on Google is secondary to competing with Amazon Alexa.

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B2B eCommerce Search Non-Compete 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Use caution to avoid employer conflicts of interest and non-compete clauses. Jointly define major milestones and key metrics for the startup. Relocate to a more likely geography. Finding a high-tech co-founder in the middle of Kansas may be a long search.

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Partner Cofounder Silicon Valley Kansas 249

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. How to create a growth hacking strategy using the pirate metrics model. Growth hacking is how Slack went from 15,000 to half a million daily users in its first year. Activation.

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Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. Unfortunately, its easy to lose track of positioning effects when optimizing for a single metric.

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Metrics San Francisco Lean Viral 88

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I love the enthusiasm, the boundless energy and the sense of possibility that comes from having an idea that hasn’t yet been beat up in the marketplace of competing ideas, customer contracts, VC skepticism, jaded journalists or fickle consumers who are on the The New, New Thing. The full financial details and metrics were in the deck.

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Operations Metrics Early Stage Non-Compete 150

Board Effect

APRIL 29, 2022

Credit unions also face such internal risks as internal fraud, regulatory non-compliance, data breaches, legal risks, and liability for injuries of consumers and staff. By following metrics in the industry, your board can reduce your exposures and address risks proactively. Effectively Managing Credit Union Risks.

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Technical Review Forecast Non-Compete Government 83

Board Effect

JULY 21, 2022

Credit unions also face such internal risks as internal fraud, regulatory non-compliance, data breaches, legal risks, and liability for injuries to consumers and staff. By following metrics in the industry, your board can reduce your exposures and address risks proactively. . Effectively Managing Credit Union Risks.

Management 77

Management Technical Review Forecast Non-Compete 77

Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Part of the process of differentiating from a non-profit organization and a for profit business requires a social enterprise to understand how it competes with the business entities on each end of the business spectrum. All non-profits are engaged in some form of fundraising, as it is a necessity to fund their organization.

Non-Compete 45

Non-Compete Lean Equity Metrics 45

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Then, I Review existing materials Business Plan Marketing Plan Marketing Materials Product Plan / Roadmap Current and Projected Financials Business Pipeline Team Member Bios / Resumes Current Metrics Roadmap Normally there are crude documents for each of these areas that can be quickly read / scanned.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review Early Stage 231

ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2021

Each of these tools will display metrics in a different way. Indexability: This shows where a URL is indexable or non-indexable. Indexability status: The reason why a URL is non-indexable. In such cases, you’re making pages compete against each other for ranking and clicks, thus diluting their potential.

Technical Review 162

Technical Review SEO Software Review XML 162

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2021

Use caution to avoid employer conflicts of interest and non-compete clauses. Jointly define major milestones and key metrics for the startup. Relocate to a more likely geography. Finding a high-tech co-founder in the middle of Kansas may be a long search.

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Cofounder Startup Silicon Valley Kansas 315

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

We have well financed competitors whom despite competing with we respect deeply and when you see your competition launching in many markets it’s tempting to follow suit. These are the hard problems we’ll have to address in the year ahead along with the perennial, “ When should we raise more money?

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Operations New York City Technical Review Startup 286

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

He calls this competing with “non consumption” It was the most profound business strategy book I had read and greatly influenced how I thought about company building and certainly how I think about investing. The team has stated it and has built metrics around key goals for future success.

Technical Review 401

Technical Review Startup Business Model Non-Compete 401

Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

Bubble Kings most commonly reside in organizations where there is little to no accountability (or misplaced accountability, ex: celebration of vanity metrics). To poke holes in the data/methodology (regardless of the Rationalizer’s analytical competence). They dilute the analysis with non-facts. To provide context.

Leadership 80

Leadership Non-Compete Analytics Software Review 80

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Your digital performance dashboard has 16 metrics along 9 dimensions, and you know that the font-size 6 text and sparkline sized charts make them incomprehensible. Focus only on KPIs, eliminate metrics. Here are the definitions you'll find in my books: Metric : A metric is a number. Time on Page is a metric.

Metrics 266

Metrics Analytics Forecast Non-Compete 266

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2018

He had a laser-like focus on his key for-profit segment, but then some high-profile people approached him to extend this to a non-profit area. A: They need to pursue different, better metrics. We discovered in our research that people in established companies oftentimes pursue the wrong metrics. That’s no surprise.

Metrics 349

Metrics Startup Lean Detroit 349

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. I'm working quite a bit with startups who are leveraging social media, but I'm finding it hard to predict success and metrics.

Management 150

Management Product Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 150

ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

This includes other non-competing agencies, as well as software and technology vendors. For example, if SEO is a priority, some metrics you’d want to focus on may include; Organic search traffic; Impressions on the SERPs; SERP click-through-rate; Avg. Examples of these channels include GrowthHackers and Hacker News.

Audience 127

Audience Non-Compete Distribution Channel 127

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

By delegating specific tasks—like outsourced sales for startups—to third-party experts, internal teams can focus on core competencies. Distinguishing Task Priorities At the heart of cost-effective outsourcing for startups lies the ability to discern between essential and non-essential tasks. This goes beyond mere financial metrics.

Cost 137

Cost Startup Non-Compete Dilution 137

Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

In our example, it’s 20K non-paying customers. It’s critical to understand the metrics in terms of dollars per additional user, as you’ll have to spend this amount to serve thousands of your non-paying customers. Your non-paying customers don’t value the product as much as paying users do. How is your startup funded?

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Startup Non-Compete Viral Software Review 110

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

To earn this ranking, they had to beat out 86,000 other real estate brokerages who were competing for this award. Both magazines use different metrics to determine the best entrepreneurial businesses in the U.S., They selected a specific client with which to work: the undeserved and overlooked non-profit sector.

America 113

America Non-Compete Differentiation Entrepreneur 113

Hearpreneur

JULY 19, 2021

Through my non-profit Women Of Integrity Inc., I love knowing that my business empowers lawyers to actually understand how marketing works and how to hold the vendors they work with (and often their own internal employees) accountable for their work in measurable, fair, and metrics-backed ways. 30- The opportunity to compete.

Entrepreneur 139

Entrepreneur Jordan Non-Compete Community 139

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In this case study on Moz.com by Conversion Rate Experts , the first phase of their conversion strategy was to interview paying, non-paying, and former customers about how they felt about the product. That was the metric that really told us we needed to start over.” “We couldn’t even get our friends to use it.

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Customer Development Conversion Developer Customer 126

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2019

With that being said, how can you compete with the force that is Amazon if you’re a smaller retailer or a start-up, even if you are operating an e-commerce platform? The following are some things to keep in mind if you’re a smaller retailer and you’re looking for ways to compete with Amazon , or even just get your own piece of the action.

Non-Compete 149

Non-Compete United States Analytics Metrics 149

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Explain why, hopefully you'll have rules you can apply and check if your Web Metrics are indeed KPI's! Update] Here are two recent posts that dive deeper into the topic of Key Performance Indicators and provide latest thinking (as well as real world examples): ~ Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business.

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Metrics Web Non-Compete Analytics 124

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

They compete on features, price and execution. In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

If you can just execute competently , you will outperform a lot of people who might have a theoretically superior strategy. . When I talk with non-founding insiders at many alternative investment firms, I regularly hear complaints about the quality of firm management. – Thoughtful fund management. – Internal diversity.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

If you can just execute competently , you will outperform a lot of people who might have a theoretically superior strategy. . When I talk with non-founding insiders at many alternative investment firms, I regularly hear complaints about the quality of firm management. – Thoughtful fund management. – Internal diversity.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

One theme that I always get is, “I’ve gotten an offer from a VC, but they want me to do X, what do you think?&# X is always something non-standard that the entrepreneur knows in his gut isn’t right. In these many exchanges similar questions crop up. Trust your instincts – they will serve you well as an entrepreneur.

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Pakistan India Technical Review Software Review 297

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2016

But I have a strong preference for: Non obvious ideas. I love businesses that aim to massively reduce the costs of products or services in a way that makes a product or service vastly more accessibility and in which incumbents would have a hard time competing. I prefer to compete more with other startups than with giants.

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Early Stage Non-Compete LP Later Stage 254

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

We offer regular DEIB training for all employees, covering topics such as microaggressions, allyship, and cultural competence. This helps to break down language barriers and ensures that non-native English speakers can comfortably access the medical documentation they need. Thanks to Christian Espinosa, Blue Goat Cyber ! #2-

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Entrepreneur Equity Non-Compete Employee 87

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

One of my favourite implementations of Treemaps is in the competitive intelligence tool Compete. You can hover over each box to get a sense of the key metrics. You've see the application of content consumption and keyword analysis using the Sunburst above, and the use of Treemaps by Compete. I used infogr.am

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Analytics Sierra Leone Channel Conversion 145