February 2019

Hailed as one of the best startup conferences on the planet, Startup Grind’s Global Conference 2019 did not disappoint. The company boasts 600 chapters in more than 120 countries and hosts conferences around the world with Redwood City, California, being selected four years in a row. What stood out to make this year’s event worthwhile? Beyond meeting clients, partners, old friends and making some new ones, here are three take-aways from the ON ITS AXIS team. 1. Simple Metrics + Benchmarking Matters Most to VC’s When a witty and successful Partner at a top VC firm presents on The Four Vital Signs of SaaS, we listen. While 90% of companies are not a fit for venture funding, it’s clear those that are need to focus. Rory explained how measuring too many things means measuring nothing so look at simple metrics: revenue growth, sales efficiency, revenue churn and cash burn. Once you…

Change is part and parcel with success in today's competitive business landscape. Organizations that struggle to implement necessary changes will ultimately stagnate. No company is immune; some of the world's most powerful corporations have fallen prey to innovation, or more specifically, their inability to keep up. In this rollercoaster environment, change must not be avoided, but rather, built into every element of the workforce. Enter organizational change management — a discipline designed to ensure that disruptive new processes or ideas are implemented in a way that most benefits both individual stakeholders and the company as a whole. This concept may be familiar in the C-suite, but it's also notoriously difficult to execute. This unfortunate reality is best exemplified by a Strategy&/Katzenbach Center survey, which highlights a success rate of just 54 percent for major change initiatives. If you're determined to beat the odds, you'll want to implement the best practices…

3 Take-aways from Startup Grind 2019

Addressing the People in Change Management