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14 Articles match "CTO","Metrics"
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Part of those questions are around Startup Metrics . This aligns with understanding the the core business model: Get Users (= Acquisition, Referral) Drive Usage (= Activation, Retention) Make Money (= Monetize) (and Lifetime Value is a good one) Of course, that’s a big part of what the investor wants as well. And you definitely should have ideas around important proof points for the business. And it will be a consistent picture provided both to the team (CTO, COO) and to investors. Tim Berry has a great post on Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers tells us that he doesn’t like to see business plans with multi-billion market numbers used as the basis for projections.
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Background This post partly really came about as a result of a great conversation yesterday with David Croslin a former CTO at HP who recently conducted an interesting experiment. This is actually fairly common and I think it’s a bit challenging in that the technology roles (from technology advisor to CTO) in a startup vary widely. He posted on several social networking sites the following message: If you know of a startup company that could benefit from the knowledge, experience, professional network and reputation of a globally recognized technology and innovation leader. I am looking for one or two startups that I can work with on their road to success as a virtual C-level officer, board member, advisor or other relationship. Later he posted about his experience in Challenges of Startups .
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Monday, March 1, 2010
With goals in place, your metrics have so much more meaning and the time you spend analyzing data will drive more informed decisions geared at improving your conversion rates.
John Shiple, CTO, Ultralive www.linkedin.com/in/johnshiple
Repost of SMCLA's Going Goo Goo Over Google Analytics
Below is a highlight video of the evening. To
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Saturday, December 1, 2007
I generally am working as an acting CTO for about 3-4 start-ups or other companies at any one time. I also found this interesting graphic of the changing needs around the CTO role in different size/type companies that somewhat echoes my experience. ( Roger Smith ) This helps explain where I normally play. During Stabilization, often the focus is transitioning to a full-time CTO. I was just talking with someone who asked me to define how that could work and what they meant. Great question.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up . I used an image from Roger Smith that describes the varying roles of a CTO as the company matures. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO should be. Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Part of those questions are around Startup Metrics . This aligns with understanding the the core business model: Get Users (= Acquisition, Referral) Drive Usage (= Activation, Retention) Make Money (= Monetize) (and Lifetime Value is a good one) Of course, that’s a big part of what the investor wants as well. And you definitely should have ideas around important proof points for the business. And it will be a consistent picture provided both to the team (CTO, COO) and to investors. Tim Berry has a great post on Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers tells us that he doesn’t like to see business plans with multi-billion market numbers used as the basis for projections.
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Last Friday, the LA CTO Forum hosted a discussion on the various metrics used to measure ourselves and our companies. found a bunch of old examples, sanitized them, and was struck by how much metrics evolve over the lifecycle of a company. was inspired enough to put together a diagram that describes how the metrics for a product or startup company evolve over time. I was asked to participate, and eagerly dug into my archives.
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Background This post partly really came about as a result of a great conversation yesterday with David Croslin a former CTO at HP who recently conducted an interesting experiment. This is actually fairly common and I think it’s a bit challenging in that the technology roles (from technology advisor to CTO) in a startup vary widely. He posted on several social networking sites the following message: If you know of a startup company that could benefit from the knowledge, experience, professional network and reputation of a globally recognized technology and innovation leader. I am looking for one or two startups that I can work with on their road to success as a virtual C-level officer, board member, advisor or other relationship. Later he posted about his experience in Challenges of Startups .
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Monday, March 1, 2010
customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. They have a related post: Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs , but I think that looking at my Startup Metrics post provides a bit broader set of metrics to consider. Good stuff from Jason. Do I Need a Co-Founder: The 90/50 Rule of Startup Founders - FairSoftware's Blog , February 1, 2010 Another post that relates Here are some recent great posts that I’ve come across that generally fall in the intersection of startups and CTOs.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
For example, if you click on Startup , you find: => The most recent posts, announcements and web pages on the top of the page that relate to Startups. => The best (according to social signals across the network) content below that such as: Acting CTO Role in a Start-up The DNA of an A++ Team Startup Delta Force… => The keywords on the left are ordered according to their relationship to the current term. So you can see that Entrepreneur (60) LinkedIn (15) Metrics (16) SEO (15) Company (141) are all considered highly relevant to the term "startup."
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
For example, I think that looking at Startup Metrics and the implications around that would be a really interesting conversation. We've had amazing success with the LA CTO Forum but more so in-person than online. Great by Cliff Allen Business Networking Online who I had blogged about previously in Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles . In this post, Cliff provides some feedback on what works when you move towards doing business networking online.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
I'm still trying to understand what this is going to mean in practice. I'm working quite a bit with startups who are leveraging social media, but I'm finding it hard to predict success and metrics. And how can an early stage company think about social media relative to important startup metrics (see http://socalcto.blogspot.com/2009/10/startup.html On the development Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. This time I'm getting to know Mark Geller ( LinkedIn
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Monday, March 1, 2010
With goals in place, your metrics have so much more meaning and the time you spend analyzing data will drive more informed decisions geared at improving your conversion rates.
John Shiple, CTO, Ultralive www.linkedin.com/in/johnshiple
Repost of SMCLA's Going Goo Goo Over Google Analytics
Below is a highlight video of the evening. To
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