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Using Gross Margin to Score Your Product’s Maturity

OpenView Labs

And yet it’s often tucked away in a financial update while a medley of product metrics enjoy the spotlight. It needs to be treated as a top-level operational metric that a founder must know and understand. Pick a common anchoring metric that measures a core customer activity. Operational efficiency and COGS.

Scale 52
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How to Work With a Consultant: The Ultimate Guide

Neil Patel

Questions about KPIs and metrics for performance measurements. You can also select a freelancer profile from these marketplaces. Operations Consultants. These are individuals or agencies that can help clients improve operations efficiency and performance.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

So it’s about operational efficiencies, productivity gains, digital experiences and making sure we’ve captured those. We’ve got everything from self-service all the way up to the enterprise. And there’s no one key holy grail metric that’s out there in the market right now. So it starts there.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Product Operations

SmartKarrot

In recent years, Product Operations roles have evolved to include: Operations, Technical Ownership, Product Strategy, Project Management, Customer Success , and Professional Services. Products can be software, hardware, or even services. An organization’s success depends on its product operations.

Scale 10
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Lessons learned from growing a PM team in a hyper-growth startup

Point Nine Land

This refers to the improvement of your main output metrics. If your mission is to reduce CO2 emissions, you can (potentially should) make this your main output metric. In SaaS vs. marketplaces? This process requires a lot of assumptions and is not hard science but the key is to focus on growth of your main output metrics.