Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Since that time the speed at which companies have developed both technologically and from a business perspective has been nearly as staggering as the 760 mph system itself. In August 2016, Hyperloop One broke ground on Development Loop (DevLoop), which became the world’s first full-scale Hyperloop test track.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we talked with Gina Callari , the COO of RelayCars (www.relaycars.com), a unit of a larger company called EVOX Images, which has developed virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) software which lets consumers view and experience automobiles using things like Magic Leap and even just smartphone.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

The competition for consumers embracing e-commerce has led to retailers meeting the challenge of providing speedy delivery, relying on companies such as UPS and Fedex to do so, and making shipping systems more efficient. It is a necessary competitive strategy, but it is one that benefits the shipping companies tremendously.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. In fact, eight were already billion dollar unicorns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The bad news is that many are already doing it, with competition growing, so the longer you wait, the less chance you have of getting there first. In a new startup, there is tremendous competitive value in registering intellectual property early, but you don’t need to contract these tasks to expensive experts any longer.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing. I built my own company around marketing services, and have been around business development, marketing, custom service, and sales, and also on the consumer side of technology, a little bit a mix of the two.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2015

He outlines a three-phase process to develop the necessary business culture of energy, resilience, and openness: Nurture your current leadership strengths. Learn how to recognize, cultivate, and leverage the competencies of your current talent to develop your leadership team. Doing good opens the door to a broader customer base.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

The number of startups rose in 2015 for the first time in five years, with the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

You don’t want to risk your own money on development. Organic growth at this stage may be non-competitive. Most entrepreneurs don’t realize that finding an investor can add months to the process and require huge amounts of your time during the critical development and go-to-market period of your startup.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In addition to an Undergraduate Certificate, the Program is launching a Master of Technology Management degree in 2015. Apeel Sciences - Founded in 2012, after winning $10,000 at UCSB’s New Venture Competition, the company closed $1.25M in funding during 2013.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2016

Develop and continually refine your competitive advantage. Entrepreneurs know that no competitive advantage means failure. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 12/30/2015. For entrepreneurs, change is the door to opportunity, so be proactive and make it happen.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing. Weve also developed technology that allows them to get a really easy start. Who are your core customers? I have a Ph.D.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Competitor positioning and sustainable competitive advantage. It requires the same level of understanding of your business that you probably have already put into developing your product or service, over a period of months. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/29/2015.

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socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2014

We are young women ourselves, obviously, so its a competitive advantage to do what we know best, especially when theres not many of us in the industry. This could be a huge essay, but there are aspects to gaming like complexity of choice and direct character interaction that have been largely ignored by most mobile game developers.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

With so many smart technology devices and users— six billion Internet of Things (IoT) connections in 2015—we’ve long surpassed the adoption phase. Now, the focus has shifted to refining and improving features to help products stand out from the competition, especially in the realm of security.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. A smart investor will take an independent final reading in the market on barriers to entry, active competition, demographics, and price sensitivity. Status of the solution.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

What we're trying to positions ourselves as, and it might sound touchy-feely, is a friend to app developers and app owners who have mobile applications. After I sold my last company, Shift, in May of 2015, I took some time off to look for the next thing to do. What was appealing to you about the mobile app area?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2015

People making a request may not understand your budget limitations, current workload, or competitive pressures. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 1/2/2015. Rejection without giving a context implies an unreasonable request or a problem with the requestor. Say yes to the person and no to the task.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 28, 2016

—Two Vertex rivals touted early-stage data at the NACFC conference: Belgium-based Galapagos , which is developing its own triple combination regimen, and Netherlands-based ProQr Therapeutics (NASDAQ: PRQR ), which is advancing an RNA-based CF drug sprayed into the lungs. THIS WEEK IN DRUG PRICING…. billion last year.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2016

According to Pitchbook , during the first half of 2015, “M&A exits valued at less than $100 million made up the majority of exits or about 65% of the total number of deals, which was up from about 60% in 2014.”. This dynamic drives these investors to overly-value grand slam outcomes. If you fail, their downside is minimal.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. Why Exclusivity Matters to Your Customers or Business Development Partners. So often exclusivity on mega deals is of huge importance to your potential customers or business development partners. I have often asked for funding for this accelerated development.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

I came on full-time with Startup Junkie in 2015, and haven’t looked back! It’s the Moneyball approach to economic development, and it’s effective. A deep bench of entrepreneurial support organizations such as Startup Junkie, the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center , SCORE , and Grit Studios.

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Xconomy

JULY 6, 2016

National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins (pictured) and FDA commissioner Rob Califf spoke on a call this afternoon to update the Precision Medicine Initiative, or PMI, which President Obama unveiled in early 2015. 23andMe also plans to develop drugs on its own using insights gleaned from those data.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Additionally, with the cloud becoming the de facto choice for product development and deployment, newer and more challenging security threats continue to emerge. Today’s startups are more mobile, hyper-connected, social, and globalized than ever – all of which have resulted in more complex data networks and more security risks.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. Thus, he naturally viewed Twilio's toolsets as rudimentary and easy to copy - easy for him and his world-class team of VoIP engineers, but not so easy for the average developer. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Sales of both drugs, ivacaftor (Kalydeco) and the combo pill ivacaftor-lumacaftor (Orkambi), reached almost $1 billion in 2015 and are growing. But the drugs aren’t cures, and competition looms. Has Vertex has learned from its past missteps?

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In 2015, the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals were held in Marrakesh, Morocco. Our civic center actually had to upgrade their broadband because we needed a really good Wi-Fi with the competition being done on computers. ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals 2017.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2015

A few innovative companies, including the financial advice company The Motley Fool , are so convinced that collaboration is the key to their competitive advantage that they have added the role of “ chief collaboration officer ,” in the person of Todd Etter. Marty Zwilling Published on TheModernTeam on 11/05/2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

She can anticipate reactions to price increases or product changes by customers and she can sustain competitive challenges because she knows the customer will stick by her. This got him more power and with that power he executed on his belief system and had a lousy 2015 season. Developing trusting relationships with peers is critical.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Fun Fact: Preventing spreadsheet abuse since 2015 – one company at a time. He was fortunate enough to attend three competitions: Atlanta, Sydney and Athens. Fun Fact: There was a tough moment when the business was operating without developers or teachers! He’s traveled the world and developed a unique accent as a result.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

If the elements of your business aren't expertly developed and aligned, even the best dream will be in jeopardy. Here is my list of those elements, which every entrepreneur needs to develop before charging into the marketplace with high hopes and (sadly) a business that will likely get lost in the throng.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

In addition, good marketing and support plans can take as long as product development. Paradigm-shift solutions have no competition." The real competition to a new paradigm is the old paradigm. The first airplane faced major competition from trains and automobiles. Do both in parallel to be timely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The middle and above-middle class population of China will grow from 172 million in 2010 to 314 million by 2015. Software can be developed “offshore” for a low cost, manufacturing volumes are quickly available from China, and European designs have increased opportunities in every country. with demands for new products and services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

The middle and above-middle class population of China will grow from 172 million in 2010 to 314 million in 2015. Software can be developed “offshore” for a low cost, manufacturing volumes are quickly available from China, and European designs have increased opportunities in every country. with demands for new products and services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

The middle and above-middle class population of China will grow from 172 million in 2010 to 314 million in 2015. Software can be developed “offshore” for a low cost, manufacturing volumes are quickly available from China, and European designs have increased opportunities in every country. with demands for new products and services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Do your homework to realistically size development, marketing and staffing requirements, and then increase the number by 50 percent. Resist the temptation to be defensive, and don’t assume you are somehow smarter than the competition. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/06/2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2015

It was developed by Joe Abraham , who manages a portfolio of successful high-growth international companies. These people are the ultimate chess players in the game of startups, always looking to be two or three moves ahead of the competition. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/10/2015.

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