Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Making such predictions is a skill that can be developed, and here’s one method of doing so. Is there a market for your class of product at all? Fourth is competitive risk. If you could predict a crisis within your business before its occurrence, wouldn’t you move to prevent or reduce its impact? First, there is market risk.

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Competition Marketing Class Product 156

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Edison2 won the $5M mainstream class for the prize, the Li-ion entry received $2.5M for the alternative side-by-side class, and the X-Tracer Team won the $2.5M alternative tandem class. Tags: vehicle mileage clean aptera competition prize automotive foundation xprize. READ MORE>>.

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Class Southern California Competition SoCalTech 157

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the newer class of “super angels,” who often look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. Yet, it is important to remember that the most optimistic super angel is looking for a proven business model, rather than research and development, or just an idea.

Guide 136

Guide Venture Capital Funding Class 136

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. The biggest motivator for starting brightblu was John Greathouse’s Entrepreneurship class.

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Class Startup Santa Barbara RSS 231

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The University of Southern California and wealthy engineer Fariborz Maseeh , now a hedge fund manager in Newport Beach, is announcing this week a $1M endowment, which will fund an annual, $50,000 prize for a business plan competition for the school's engineering students. affiliated event focused on spreading innovative ideas. READ MORE>>.

USC 214

USC Southern California SoCalTech Competition 214

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns. The industry veteran. The financial suit. The operations superstar.

Technical Advisors 123

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 123

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Most colleges have now added classes in entrepreneurship to include the necessary business focus to technical majors that usually drive innovative ideas. Every school recognizes the power of “hands-on” work to help you develop your own ideas into a business. Make a summer internship your best learning class.

Entrepreneur 157

Entrepreneur Mentor Class Resource 157

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2023

You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. Don’t stand still.

Startup 112

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 112

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2021

The tighter the loop, the greater the value captured and the stronger the competitive differentiation. billion people in developing countries to support who need to be moving out of poverty and into industrial and service occupations by 2030. Upgrade, reuse, or recycle every product. These will be your customers, and your competitors.

Startup 162

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Social Media 162

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Develop a personal story as a visionary and learner. Founders who present themselves as a lone entrepreneur may develop an innovative solution, but building a business requires a team. You need to show you have a “Plan B,” and a never-give-up mindset, in handling any competitive threat or customer reaction.

Ideas 140

Ideas Entrepreneur Equity Resource 140

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. FabLab s is an example of a new class of facilities for entrepreneurs to start experimenting early.

Startup 124

Startup IBM IBM Examples 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. 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. Anticipate greater growth outside of North America.

Patents 106

Patents Offshore Startup Demand 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the newer class of “super angels,” who often look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. Yet, it is important to remember that the most optimistic super angel is looking for a proven business model, rather than research and development, or just an idea.

Funding 125

Funding Venture Capital Startup Class 125

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

We got over 400 applications for the ten slots we had open in this class, and we picked ten amazing companies. So far, eight of the ten companies in our current class have raised outside funding, and we're really happy with how it's gone so far. Our current class has performed incredibly well. So when is the next class?

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Class Mentor Startup Santa Monica 261

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. Don’t stand still.

Startup 156

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 156

socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

Some recent jobs: VP of Business Development, RampRate - Los Angeles. The Vice President of Business Development reports to the CEO and is responsible for the direction and management of all worldwide sales operations direct and indirect, including market competitiveness, pricing, compensation, and distribution.

SoCalTech 124

SoCalTech SaaS Los Angeles Platform 124

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

To build it, weve hired some amazing people, including Nick Kim, who is now leading platform development at Crosscut. So far, under Nicks leadership, weve built sourcing and pipeline management systems, a portfolio growth and development platform, and a job board to serve the entire city named Interchange.

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Southern California News Platform Class 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2022

A primary focus on process leads to highly structured training classes, leaving little room for personal career development. Mentoring and coaching tend to improve commitment, motivation, decision making, and creative talents, which are required for a competitive business and career. What goes around, comes around.

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Coach Organization Mentor Startup 128

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2018

If there is no competition, there is likely not a market. Every potentially successful product has competition, or an alternative, or customers with no interest in change. If you really believe your idea has no competition, perhaps you haven’t looked, or there is no real business.

Startup 99

Startup Competition Examples Ideas 99

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 8, 2016

I met Andrew Stalbow and Petri Järvilehto from Seriously several years ago after they had just left Angry Birds where they were responsible for international business development / licensing and the game studio, respectively. They hire world-class animators and sweat every detail of the drawings.

Startup 150

Startup IP Class Media 150

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns. The industry veteran. The financial suit. The operations superstar.

Technical Advisors 123

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 123

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

McKinsey estimates, for example, that the upper middle class in China will grow from 14 percent in 2012 to 54 percent by 2022. Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. However, to gain a true competitive edge, you still need to implement effective solutions first at the local level.

Marketing 94

Marketing Patents Offshore Startup 94

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

And a host of interesting companies in last mile have cropped up to give the Amazon ecosystem some competition, like two companies from the last Techstars LA class - Shipsi and PRZM. A certified executive coach, Anna works with her portfolio companies to build great teams, develop a sound strategy and create a strong network.

Startup 124

Startup Press Commerce Southern California 124

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2011

Jonathan Cooper: One, is we've developed a proprietary, anti-fraud payment system. That's a huge competitive advantage in money remittance. It took us four years to develop our anti-fraud payment system. We've tapped lots of world class experts, inside and outside the company, to develop this, with world class talent.

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Class Monrovia .Net Customer 168

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Small Business Administration as a Growth Accelerator Fund Competition winner. It also got me thinking about what was important for winning this competition. The Growth Accelerator Fund competition is for organizations that help startups grow, become commercially viable, and have an economic impact. 31 in the nationwide contest.

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Funding Competition Chief Technology Officer San Diego 40

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites. We then went out to raise money, and got started on development.

USC 207

USC CPC Sites Startup 207

socalTECH

JULY 28, 2010

Yesterday, the X Prize Foundation (www.xprize.org) announced the finalists in the Progressive Automotive X Prize , a $10M competition geared at advancing automotive technology and developing 100 MPG automobiles. We had 132 vehicles enter the competition, and have slowly narrowed it down to the top nine. READ MORE>>.

Competition 153

Competition Southern California Technology Class 153

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam’s vision was to build a world-class “reverse logistics” company that could be as ambitious as Amazon has been in delivering goods to our houses. We have well financed competitors whom despite competing with we respect deeply and when you see your competition launching in many markets it’s tempting to follow suit.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The question is how we develop our future role and potential, while satisfying all the business and personal demands on our time today. I believe these insights can and must be extended to you and your career, in line with the following guiding principles: Make your interest in learning your competitive advantage. Make the investment.

Examples 85

Examples Social Media Competition Guide 85

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. They also have a very smart and efficient approach to creative development that was critical to helping us scale,” she wrote. (If In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. The key takeaway?

Commerce 211

Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 29, 2014

Set to begin on June 6 in San Francisco, California, the Wearable World Invents Series will combine a spectrum of developers with leading hardware manufacturers in the wearable space to create new technologies for trial on American Airlines. Developers interested in participating can register interest at bit.ly/wwinvent.

Technology 104

Technology Conference IBM IBM 104

Berkonomics

JUNE 18, 2015

Making such predictions is a skill that can be developed, and here’s one method of doing so. Is there a market for your class of product at all? Fourth is competitive risk , which consists of two separate risks. There are five basic kinds of internal risks than a business faces over time. That discussion is for a future time.

Competition 120

Competition Marketing Class Product 120

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The TMP began in the late 1990''s as a single class inside the Engineering College. Although the classes are open to students of all disciplines, the Program''s primary focus in on educating "techpreneurs.". This allowed the curriculum to efficiently find its product / market fit. All-Star Alumni. Am I biased?

Santa Barbara 258

Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

For example, I work as a community partner with Surge Tacoma , a coworking space, to secure speakers and develop content for meet ups that pertain to startups and entrepreneurship. I participate as a guest speaker to Professor Andrew Fry’s class each semester, as well. Lee: From my perspective, location is Tacoma’s biggest asset.

Startup 70

Startup Class Resource Examples 70

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The poor performance of the asset class (this analysis has largely been wrong as I pointed out here –> most analyses were clumsy rear-view mirror looks at the data). The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). On the surface the narratives have been. and hasn’t abated.

Venture Capital 398

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. A partnership was announced last year with the City of New York, to connect and grow NYC's startup ecosystem.

Startup 100

Startup IBM IBM Examples 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2015

McKinsey estimates, for example, that the upper middle class in China will grow from 14 percent now to 56 percent by 2022. Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. However, to gain a true competitive edge, you still need to implement effective solutions first at the local level.

Patents 106

Patents Startup Offshore Demand 106