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6 Key Rules To Stay Competitive In The Digital World

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business advisor, I have to recommend even to established companies that they review and revamp their competitive strategy now, even if it appears to be working today. The real challenge is to win massive consumer preference repeatedly. Features, availability, and brand are just the price of entry.

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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

Both Sides of the Table

Amazon took a consumer value proposition (buying books, then all retail products) and made the consumer experience significantly better, faster & cheaper. They didn’t do this by selling better books or electronics, they did it by building a logistics & warehouse powerhouse. years of software development.

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What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From The Grateful Dead

InfoChachkie

Old School Software Distribution Is Doomed. On December 10th, 1993, a small group of software developers in Shreveport, Louisiana changed the software world. id Software’s first-person shooter game, entitled simply DOOM, could be downloaded free, allowing gamers to play the first nine levels.

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Do Not Obsess On Names – Obsess On Delivering Awesome Customer Value

InfoChachkie

Amazon – While arguably better than the company’s initial name, “Cadabra.com”, “Amazon” does not convey the company’s original core competency of selling books online. However, if this is true, “Aardvark” would have been a more clever choice and equally as relevant to online book sales. Some of my favorites are listed HERE.

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Interview with Zareh Baghdasarian, 15desks

socalTECH

For parents, if you're interested in how your kids are doing, you can find out what their schedule is like, what homework is due when, what their grades are, and how they are progressing, plus you can communicate with their teachers. In the meantime, I was getting frustrated with the software being used at my son's school.

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Interview with Jonathan Zweig, AppOnboard

socalTECH

Our interview this morning is with Jonathan Zweig , the CEO of Los Angeles-based AppOnboard (www.apponboard.com), which has created software which allows mobile app developers--and in particular, mobile game developers--to create demos of those games which can be played without having to download and install those apps.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Charles Edge :: Partner, 318 Author :: Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book April 16, 2007 1:37 AM Shashank said. Its been great to zero in on very specific skillsets. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch.

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