TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Based on his time leading startups through the dotcom implosion in 2000 and the 2008 Great Recession, Alomar said it’s critical for founders to be strategic and not reactive. These criteria vary, but could include product-market fit, engagement metrics, or specific initiatives that will help meet business targets like ARR or burn rate.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

They must be relevant, meaningful, in alignment with cultural values, and tied to the right set of metrics. My experience is that bonuses are absolutely effective given this caveat: they must be structured and implemented properly. It is not the bonus that is right or wrong, but the manner in which it is rolled-out.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

In his latest TC+ post, Michael Perez, director of growth and data at VC firm M13, shares five questions he uses to devise pricing strategy frameworks , along with three value metrics and a detailed measurement plan for GTM strategy. “Contribution margin can then be reinvested in sales and marketing or operations to create more value.”

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

I want metrics that mirror experience. Tenure is too qualitative. I agree that loyalty is critical. It is a symbiotic relationship where corporate and individual Vision dovetails Have a great week!!

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage. In today’s post I’ll examine one of the most frequent offenders; “ Talent is our biggest asset.&#

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&#

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Even if you don’t find yourself having to frequently deal with extreme situations, it is often nothing more than normal dealings in the ordinary course of business that can place you at a nexus…Do you make your decision based upon the facts at hand and sound decisioning metrics, or do you let your emotions drive your decisions?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I think many in leadership get to choose the metric they use to measure, and they seem to always choose the one that makes them look good. That said, your observation about the need to measure the "right" metrics is an astute one. Thank you for sharing this freely. link] davidburkus Great exam. Kavita Great article.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

If you incorporate the following metrics into your decisioning framework you will minimize the chances of making a bad decision: Perform a Situation Analysis : What is motivating the need for a decision? What would happen if no decision is made?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

The basic flaw in most arguments in support of CEO term limits stems from a belief that tenure is somehow a very relevant metric, and that there is some mystical optimum time to serve. And what if a company finds or is built by just that person…and loses them to a term limit?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric.

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QAspire

AUGUST 8, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Metrics: Are They Mapped With Your Business Objectives? You can measure almost anything in your business, but if those metrics don’t serve a real business objectives, they are just numbers with no real meaning. Identify metrics : What metrics can effectively help you meet your goals?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Millennials came of age during the global mortgage crisis of 2008. Most importantly, it’s evident in the usage metrics relative to competition. Conceived in a living room in Sydney by a millennial, Nick Molnar, for millennials, Afterpay had a key insight: Millennials don’t like credit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Tan was a YC founder in the summer of 2008 and served as a partner there from December 2010 to November 2015. All the while, we have remained true to our founding principles and delivered strong metrics,” Tan wrote in a blog. During his time as a partner, he advised and funded 700 companies and more than a thousand founders, YC says.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

It's one of my great drivers to achieve significance in what I do – even if that doesn't necessarily mean success as defined by any metric you care to choose… Thanks for an interesting read! Best Neil Ron Inspiring post! Success is temporal. Significance is eternal.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. Every task should be assigned and managed according to a plan and in the light of day. Measurable : Any new ideas being adopted must lead to measurable objectives. Timing : It must be detailed and deliverable on a schedule.

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Erik Bernhardsson

MAY 22, 2017

Sometimes it’s a useful metric, but in many cases it’s not. An example – exit rate for startups 2008-2015. The naïve way is to break it up by year founded and compute the conversion rates: Except for 2008, it looks like the conversion rate is going down. Are newer companies exiting at a higher rate than older companies?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I wasn’t nearly as dazzled by Jim’s statistics and metrics as I was his outlook on life. Where Jim fell short in my opinion was that if you’ve heard Jim before, there wasn’t a lot of new information. Jim went to his staples of Level 5 Leaders, the Hedgehog principle and the Flywheel concept.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Investors are preparing for a time of going heads down, helping their existing portfolio companies that want to prioritize internal growth instead of raising more capital and rethinking their metrics of success. When it comes to workforce learning, we believe companies are taking a different approach than they did in 2008. million U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

In today’s post I’ll address a key metric that all companies should be focused on – Customer Experience Management (CEM)… Before I go any further let’s get the semantical arguments out of the way…Some will claim that a well conceived CRM initiative includes CEM as a subset.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

” Great post Mike – it is obvious you have spent a lot of time thing about and work with top teams! link] mikemyatt Thanks for your comment and kind words John.

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Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Honeycomb’s SLOs allow teams to define, measure, and manage reliability based on real user impact, rather than relying on traditional system metrics like CPU or memory usage. Instead, they consolidate logs, metrics, and traces into a unified workflow. Book a call with our experts.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

I’ve always said that the low-interest rate environment that we’ve had really since 2008 has generated an interest-free loan on risky startups. Who’s going to have a harder time in this new environment?

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2024

We are accomplishing this new engagement in two main ways: Standardizing the metric for our pricing across cloud providers to per-core licensing – the same metric used in our end-customer licensing – and providing license portability for VCF. About Hock Tan: Broadcom Hock Tan is Broadcom President, Chief Executive Officer and Director.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JULY 30, 2021

Although this particular form of recruiting has been around since 2008, it has become the need of the hour and a weapon to have in your corner with the pandemic rendering everything to a remote workspace. Choose key metrics like reach, engagement, and conversion to measure activity; the results should guide your way forward.

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Erik Bernhardsson

MAY 22, 2017

Sometimes it’s a useful metric, but in many cases it’s not. An example – exit rate for startups 2008-2015. The naïve way is to break it up by year founded and compute the conversion rates: Except for 2008, it looks like the conversion rate is going down. Are newer companies exiting at a higher rate than older companies?

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Xicom

JULY 29, 2021

Here, I have pocketed some inescapable metrics to help you specify your software development team’s goals and track how each team is performing towards accomplishing those goals. A study conducted in 2008, estimated that 68% of surveyed firms were statistically unlikely to have a successful project due to poor project requirements.

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Ivanti

JULY 13, 2021

Updates are available for Windows 7 and Server 2008/2008 R2 if you have an Extended Security Update (ESU) subscription. If you do not have additional metrics to determine risk it is very possible you could be missing some of the more impactful updates. This vulnerability has been detected in attacks in the wild.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

While my list had more "diversity" it was a larger list based upon specific metrics as the standard for qualification – diversity was not one of these metrics. Interesting points about the metrics involved – good feedback for women leaderhsip bloggers. Personally, I am not affronted.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In recent decades, what I call “metric fixation” has engulfed an ever-widening range of institutions: businesses, government, health care, K-12 education, colleges and universities, and nonprofit organizations. Metric fixation consists of a set of interconnected beliefs. First, there are vanity metrics.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 6, 2014

Of the 8 core principles of More Human leadership , it’s #6 - Measuring, monitoring and managing with the right metrics - that presents the biggest “nuts and bolts” challenge to any leader. By 2008, it was time to really step on the accelerator and pull everything together… The Mad Scientists.

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Apiumhub

JUNE 22, 2022

We are delighted to announce the release of our new book “ Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture ”. VYou app , for making me innovate and implement new software architecture metrics. He moved from Germany to the US in 2008. ” How did it all started? ”- book authors.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 13, 2008

Join me on 5 November for The Agile PMO – Real Time Metrics and Visibility. Registration Details: The Agile PMO - Real Time Metrics and Visibility Wednesday, 5 November 2008 Time: 12:00pm Eastern Standard Time (US-New York, GMT-5:00) Registration URL: [link]. There is a better way. Transparency. Collection.

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QAspire

AUGUST 22, 2010

They collect some key metrics including cost per meal and constantly look for ways to optimize it. Focus on Quality : When we went into the office, I could see some well defined checklists. On further inquiry, we found that their kitchen was ISO 22000 (Food Safety) Certified.

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ProdOps

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Look at the Amazon.com graph from before, the usage pattern reflects the traffic of the website and is used as a proxy metric to determine how much capacity is required. But how to actually do it? When to scale up and when to scale down? How should they decide when to scale the capacity?

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Luis Goncalves

AUGUST 24, 2019

One of the metrics you can use is the total number of community members ever since the community “launch” or the knowledge transfer between the members of the organisation. Measuring these metrics may sound tedious but remember things that don’t get measured don’t scale. These metrics and regular check-ups are part of the game.

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