Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Here is a sample of the reading list for the course that gives you a flavor for just how modern and practical this course is. Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions.

Startup 319

Startup Sales Course Competition 319

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

They also were exclusive to Bird so they gave the company a competitive advantage. Of course it takes time to roll out new scooters and replace existing inventory but this is already having a dramatic effect on the underlying business. They had better performance, better handling and importantly better battery lives.

Santa Monica 250

Santa Monica Venice Competition Software Review 250

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

In short, the VC industry is very sharp-elbowed amongst some very competitive people who are used to winning and most deals don’t have enough space to share investment rounds so people were naturally pretty quick to judge A16Z. This was an industry defining deal on returns in the league of Google, Facebook, Twitter and one imagines Uber.

Venture Capital 264

Venture Capital Invest Funding Competition 264

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

As the school year kicks off for college students, one of the big tasks of the year is buying books for their courses. Every price comparison out there, whether that's Google Products, Bizrate, or other sites, can find books, but you can only do it one at a time. Jonathan Simkin: Certainly, it is extremely competitive.

UCSD 185

UCSD Course Startup Sites 185

Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

And of course, that could easily require a large amount, far beyond the capability of a small company looking for its initial audience. Google became an overnight industry standard for search strictly by word of mouth, never spending a dime on advertising in its early years. And yet, word of mouth sometimes is all that is needed.

Sites 156

Sites Product Social Network Metrics 156

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2023

These days, you can find existing patents and trademarks through Google and the US Patent Office online site without spending thousands of dollars with your favorite patent attorney. Of course, existing patents don’t stop you from innovating, but charging ahead into a wall is no fun.

Ideas 106

Ideas Technical Review Patents Startup 106

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

As an angel investor, I see plenty of startups focusing on building an innovative product, but I’m looking for the few who are also leading with an exponential growth strategy, to put them in the category of the next Amazon or Google. Sponsor some friendly competitive events with prizes.

Marketing 170

Marketing Examples Startup Custom 170

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Funding Innocal Offshore 124

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

For Ethan it came down to two companies – BuildOnline or Google. ” I proclaimed to Ethan, “Google is at $400 / share. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. “No choice at all!” Nice sweep!

CTO Coach 359

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire GRP Partners 359

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

The show has become my best curator of which books to read (including my favorite of last year, The Accidental Superpower ) and my go to for understanding geopolitics of: Russia, Iran, Pakistan, China, India and of course the US. But they also take on issues in science, technology and management.

Coach 150

Coach Technical Review Framework Google 150

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

It’s basically Google for icons. Many of my courses were about databases, web design or programming, so I could often just work on a part of Iconfinder and still finish the course. In 2011 I talked to a friend, Steffen Thilsted , who asked me if we should join a startup-competition called VentureCup together.

Design 65

Design Web Design Develop Development 65

socalTECH

MAY 8, 2013

Cloud storage is a competitive market, with dozens of cloud storage providers hoping to gain a big chunk of the market. Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. Our new product competes with Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft SkyDrive. What is iDrive?

Southern California 133

Southern California Google S3 Services 133

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Moreover, the option to trade with more parties creates more value by fostering larger volumes of and more competitive trading. Of course, there are physical and geographic limits to trade. This is, of course, artificial intelligence (AI), and it’s the most radical approach to solving the problem. That’s remarkable.

Google 76

Google Artificial Inteligence Course Commerce 76

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. If you can’t out-Amazon Amazon, then move on and do something else.

Product 296

Product Course Custom Customer 296

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

But of course tens of thousands of people saw the headline while probably 10% of them or less watched the video. Yes, the competition going forward will be strong. Google has Google Voice. I have nothing against anybody in group texting.” . Just sending messages is a utility product and Apple killed that, not me.” .

Company 295

Company Companies Gogii Cloud Computing 295

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. We look at stage, geography and of course sector. Far from it. Lots of it.

Funding 362

Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2018

For example, Google has institutionalized innovation through a manifesto initiated by Marissa Mayer in her early days as a VP there. Nice to have” features or a ten percent cost advantage is not convincing or competitive these days. Of course, multiple small innovations should not be overlooked for their cumulative value.

Satisfaction 53

Satisfaction Startup Competition Customer 53

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2013

Of course, there's no law saying you have to go to college to start a business. It also shows that survival prospects are higher if the owner has at least four years of college, like Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, and Andrew Mason of Groupon. Many colleges offer courses on entrepreneurship, to help you think like one.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Course Education 105

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life.

Entrepreneur 232

Entrepreneur Competition Course Software Review 232

Frank Addante

MAY 23, 2012

The boy's father, my colleague, was quick to exclaim, "He was Googled!" The dad was, of course, alluding to Google's frequently-used strategy to make available free services in otherwise paid markets to rattle competition and gain market share for advertising-supported products.

Oracle 111

Oracle Google Competition Marketing 111

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Of course, there's no law saying you have to go to college to start a business. It also shows that survival prospects are higher if the owner has at least four years of college, like Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, and Andrew Mason of Groupon. Many colleges offer courses on entrepreneurship, to help you think like one.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Course Education 105

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And let's face facts, we normally are talking Google search. If you don't know the basics here, go look at Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide (PDF). Off Page SEO The other aspect of SEO is at its most basic, how many pages with decent Google Page Rank point to you using anchor text that helps you with optimization.

SEO 150

SEO Startup Search Engine Optimization Google 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

We all have one-click purchase power (Apple, Google, Amazon, eBay). The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). Of course strongest industry players don’t stand still. Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users).

Venture Capital 398

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

Of course if I’m not ensconced in deep, thoughtful work then by all means I answer the call. OK, before you all tell me about Google Voice, let me say the following. If you care about a free product then you should obviously use Google Voice. I was a Google Desktop user for years. Huge time saver for me.

Product 280

Product Startup Email Technical Review 280

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 3, 2012

In my UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial course, I require the students to submit a venture idea every week. Competition – which competitors will prove to be the most formidable? NOTE: competitors validate your idea, if you lose heart after one Google search, you are not sufficiently passionate about the idea.

Ideas 266

Ideas Guide Startup Santa Barbara 266

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.

Startup 108

Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media Outsource Development 108

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. Not Google. That said, Amazon – through AWS – even without strong competition is as wonderful an experience as Amazon the eCommerce retailer feels to you as an online shopper.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Learning experience includes: on-demand online video tutorial courses, live video-conference workshops, as well as individual online consultations, live workshops, and group programs. Creators can take any course of interest on-demand by purchasing it through our website. How does it work? Take us through your features?

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Excite, MSN and eventually Google. The initial Apple/AT&T deal was of course limited to the geography in which AT&T operated and thus after its initial success Apple had a template for exclusivity agreements in other countries. So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!,

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Startup Custom Customer 150

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest , former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), Co-Founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!].

Blogging 219

Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM. If you look at the structure of the travel industry above – of course we know that the hotel industry is fragmented while the airline industry is reasonable consolidated. Let me be very direct.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

It’s what makes Google, Google and Facebook, Facebook. Of course I’m generalizing. new features need to go into the sale people’s slides so that they know the latest and greatest about how to differentiate from the competition. I don’t believe it. They don’t love documentation. But barely.

CTO Hire 400

CTO Hire Fractional VPE Startup Outsource Development 400

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Often you ask somebody, “Did you see that article on Google buying so and so?” And of course the other place I inform myself is on Twitter. I would delete my Tweet and then write something like, “ Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Titles are an enticement to read a post.

Writing 326

Writing Buzzfeed Social Media Blogging 326

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. Of course, since you know those questions, you can just collect up the answers and provide them to your developers. How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? Of course, it’s never complete. Gap closed, right?

Fractional CTO 225

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach 225

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

For example, if you see a TV spot for Toyota, and then Google it, or you see a display ad on CNN and then open up a tab in your browser, talk about it on Facebook, or even walk into the dealership, we're able to quantify, very specifically, what combination of what kinds of media drove that sale and how that activity interacted with each other.

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

Startup leaders have to be relentlessly resourceful in overcoming obstacles and competition. Now, of course, Page and Brin have that same credibility with their successes at Google. Fundable entrepreneurs have to feel comfortable talking and listening to engineers, financial people, marketing and especially customers.

Startup 60

Startup Entrepreneur Software Review Technical Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

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. It’s a lot more fun to do it right the first time, making it easier for you, and tougher on your competition. Later cleanup can double your costs and risks.

Startup 61

Startup Social Media News Framework 61