Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 20 million registered developers in 2018. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Make your app support all platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

BlackTech Week was created in 2014, and in four short years, they’ve gained over 2700 participants, 150 speakers, and 3 pitch competitions. Watch our video series at SXSW 2018 with The Case Foundation. This crowdfunding platform has a goal to empower women-led startups to grow better businesses. BlackTech Week (Miami, FL).

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This was a big year for Crosscut because were finally delivering on our promise of implementing a full-scale investing platform after 11+ years in business. Growing our practice from 3 original partners who would meet at coffee shops into a full institutional investing platform is a constant evolution.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

But TiMi contended that these platforms are not essential to a game’s success. The pedigreed studio has in recent times faced more internal competition from its siblings inside Tencent, particularly the Lightspeed Quantum studio, which is behind the successful mobile version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG).

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Xconomy

JANUARY 10, 2019

Yet in 2018, perceptions about these dominant companies often reflected uneasiness and doubt—and for some, so did their stock performance. Some of these platform companies, taken together, now have a shared nickname: “FAANG,” which. The market caps of some of the most successful tech titans reach as high as $1 trillion.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We try to cap our A-funds at around $300 million so we retain the discipline to invest early and small while building our Growth Platform separately to do late stage deals (we now have > $300 million in Growth AUM). In fact, we just announced that we hired a new head of our Growth Platform, (follow him on Twitter here ?

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Tech.Co

MARCH 2, 2018

You’ll have the chance to enjoy a startup lunch on the rooftop , panels, mentor sessions, VC sessions, a special Startup Pitch Jam, and finally, the big party and “must attend” event known as Startup Night SXSW 2018. “ Startup Night SXSW 2018 is one of the “must attend” parties at SXSW. to 12:30 a.m.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Glossier affirmed our inherent beauty, then reminded us that we can be even more beautiful if we buy their “Boy Brow” pomade, which sold one tube every 32 seconds by 2018. billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal. What does that even mean?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

For example, Facebook added WhatsApp as a cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service to enhance the self-sustaining growth their social media platform before any downturn. For example, even the giant Amazon acquired Whole Foods as a growth entryway into the competitive grocery and food industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

On the other hand, everyone is doing it, so that means more competition, and the market and technology are changing faster than ever before. The major social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, allow you to reach millions of customers around the world at virtually no cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. No human or paper tracking systems are a competitive alternative.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

While 2018 was all about better understanding the SoCal opportunity, 2019 was about honing our focus and defining our core programs. Furthermore, if we can get these platform companies to lean-in, they bring significant resources that are vital to moving the massive SoCal ecosystem. Verizon, and Wells Fargo just to mention a few.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 26, 2018

The online gaming community is responding to the mass-shooting that occurred at a Madden 19 competition in Jacksonville, Florida , as reports identify the shooter involved in the attack and his victims. — Kiv (@young_kiv) August 26, 2018. We spent years as a community building relationships on kindness and competitiveness.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2017

With so many APIs, SaaS ecosystems, and cloud platforms to rely on, a digital product that may have taken five years to get off the ground in 2000 can now be brought to life in a matter of months. It means competition is more fierce because formidable new competitors can arrive overnight. Why has product management be so slow to adapt?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

Both are required to stay competitive. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. In startups, and even corporate environments, I see the spread of collaborative social platforms such as Slack and Yammer. Virtually every collaboration platform and mainline business process today has a cloud-based deployment option.

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

And even better still, it offers a great deal for the publications who participate in the program, offering a competitive 8% conversion rate and an impressive 10% commission on each sale (more than double Amazon’s 4.5% They’re a huge commerce platform, too, working with 60,000 publishers around the globe. commission).

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2018

We caught up with Allen Kamrava , the CEO and founder the startup, to learn about how the company is building a consumer platform that allows assembled and self-selected groups to form for the purpose of sharing unexpected costs of life. I don't think there's any more complex of an insurance platform. It's truly broken.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

Both are required to stay competitive. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. In startups, and even corporate environments, I see the spread of collaborative social media platforms such as Yammer. Virtually every collaboration platform and mainline business process today has a cloud-based deployment option.

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TechEmpower

JUNE 6, 2018

— Ben Adams (@ben_a_adams) May 24, 2018. Most importantly, the community has been contributing some amazing test implementations and demonstrating the fun and utility of some good-natured performance competition. See [link] pic.twitter.com/Od1nuq0UQV — TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks (@TFBenchmarks) May 17, 2018.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Competition is not always a bad thing, and the real purpose is often to make the world a better place. It’s also a good defensive move, to preempt competition, which is bound to come world-wide. Facebook’s market value tumbled many billions in 2018 due to users’ decreased confidence in the platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Competition is not always a bad thing, and the real purpose is often to make the world a better place. It’s also a good defensive move, to preempt competition, which is bound to come world-wide. Facebook’s market value tumbled many billions in 2018 due to users’ decreased confidence in the platform.

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