Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2022

Do you believe that you have an idea for a company that you can implement better than anyone, and maintain a competitive advantage? What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available? Education and training roadblocks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Will the solution give you an “unfair competitive advantage,” meaning no competitor already has it, or can replicate your solution without your skills or intellectual property. Is there an educated marketplace waiting? Don’t try to explain your technical implementation, your patent algorithm, or your unfair competitive advantage here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Some investors seem to focus wholly on the strengths of the management team, or a sustainable competitive advantage, and in reality these are the core attributes for every funding equation. That means educating targeted supporters is key, even before you start to sell. Selling too early triggers customer defenses and drives them away.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Fortunately, the Startup of the Year program aims to make it easier for founders to connect with resources. Meet some of the amazing organizations that partner with the Startup of the Year program, and could be a valuable resource for you to help build your business. BlackTech Week (Miami, FL).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2021

I’m certainly not saying that all of these are required, but they are certainly all worth some consideration: Get some business education, as well as technical. The education will be invaluable in setting up your own business, managing a team, and learning how to deal with constant challenges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2022

The best entrepreneurs are quick to make the tough decisions to bypass bad customers, with proper respect, to minimize frustration, resource drain, and reputation loss. If you are already an entrepreneur, more education, including an MBA, will only slow you down. You can’t please everyone all the time. Ignorance can be bliss.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

However, most enterprises are overlooking an existing, in-house bank of computing resources--desktops and otherwise idle computers--which could help reduce the costs and give them more control over their cloud computing. We had an idea to recapture what we saw was a huge pool of unlimited corporate resources. Explain what Kazuhm does?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Do you believe that you have an idea for a company that you can implement better than anyone, and maintain a competitive advantage? What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available? Education and training roadblocks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2021

Some advisors recommend that the best time for a startup is immediately after academic studies, or even earlier, but I find that real business experience, perhaps many years in business , is the best education on the realities of business, current tools, and processes. Do I rely on my own resources of seek investors?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 18, 2019

The ARPANET, as it was called back then, was designed by government, industry and academia so scientists and academics could access each other’s computing resources and trade large research files, saving time, money and travel costs. On the one hand, it has led to valuable services of great value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2023

If you claim no competition, investors may perceive that you have no market, or you haven’t looked. Disruptive technologies require customer education to create a new market. The best solutions, from a customer perspective, are able to mask the technology with a very simple and usable interface that focuses on their problem only.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

In today’s world of social marketing, it takes someone knowledgeable if not expert in understanding how to use available resources in promotion and marketing. And the tools for most are available, sometimes free, for the educated marketer. Well-tuned metrics are an absolute must. Fifth: reaction.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

I actually believe being public offers a long-term competitive advantage for the best run companies (and Darwin deals with those that aren’t meant to be special long-term). He takes on the question of why China, with its vast population and resources and the Ottoman Empire, which clearly had a dominant position over the West, crumbled.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

Cornerstone, which led the Talespin Series B round, will also be partnering with the company to develop human resources training tools in virtual reality. “We

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2014

Investors hear this as trying to do too many things with limited resources, meaning the startup will not shine at anything, and will not survive the competition. Startups that try to mix a non-profit entity with a for-profit entity to share resources don’t work, and scare off investors. Realistically frame the competition.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2016

Learning To Learn - A sound college education includes gaining the insights into applying logic, researching data and assessing the veracity information. The same is true of a college education, which provides young people with a safe environment to learn from their mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2019

Some investors seem to focus wholly on the strengths of the management team, or a sustainable competitive advantage, and in reality these are the core attributes for every funding equation. That means educating targeted supporters is key, even before you start to sell. Selling too early triggers customer defenses and drives them away.

Startup 97

Startup Education Customer Custom 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2015

Do you believe that you have an idea for a company that you can implement better than anyone, and maintain a competitive advantage? What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available? Education and training roadblocks.

Startup 109

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This statement leaves no confusion in the minds of investors, or customers, of what the company does and how it is different (and better) than the competition. Investors realize that the resources and risk required to hit both markets concurrently are great, so they will likely look for focus, or a staged approach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2013

Investors hear this as trying to do too many things with limited resources, meaning the startup will not shine at anything, and will not survive the competition. Startups that try to mix a non-profit entity with a for-profit entity to share resources don’t work, and scare off investors. Realistically frame the competition.

Startup 103

Startup Competition Technical Review Oracle 103

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. Online education. Far from it. Lots of it. Almost nobody believed and now look at it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Building through internal development, or organic growth, makes the most sense when you have a core set of skilled internal resources. Using contracts with partners for growth resources (“borrowing”) is best when you can both define the resources clearly and protect them with effective contractual terms. Partial acquisition.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

However, a lot of people didn''t know how, because they have no means or resources to buy a ticket to Africa, or how to do things except spend their whole life donating to charities. I had worked along with some of these organization son the ground, who were employing people, providing microfinancing, education, and help.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2020

If you claim no competition, investors may perceive that you have no market, or you haven’t looked. Disruptive technologies require customer education to create a new market. The best solutions, from a customer perspective, are able to mask the technology with a very simple and usable interface that focuses on their problem only.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. All-Star Alumni. Am I biased?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

Do you believe that you have an idea for a company that you can implement better than anyone, and maintain a competitive advantage? What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available? Education and training roadblocks.

Startup 57

Startup Resource Training Ideas 57

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

On the other hand, large companies with existing resources and qualified people have different rules for innovative efforts. First-to-market is a key competitive advantage. Too many startups are proud of being the first-mover in a new market -- only to be overrun by big gorillas with more resources who see the startup traction.

Startup 58

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Ideas 58

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2019

The best entrepreneurs are quick to make the tough decisions to bypass bad customers, with proper respect, to minimize frustration, resource drain, and reputation loss. If you are already an entrepreneur, more education, including an MBA, will only slow you down. You can’t please everyone all the time. Ignorance can be bliss.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Startup Customer Custom 92

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Building through internal development, or organic growth, makes the most sense when you have a core set of skilled internal resources. Using contracts with partners for growth resources (“borrowing”) is best when you can both define the resources clearly and protect them with effective contractual terms. Partial acquisition.

CTO Hire 91

CTO Hire Startup Outsource Development Resource 91

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Do you believe that you have an idea for a company that you can implement better than anyone, and maintain a competitive advantage? What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available? Education and training roadblocks.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Startup Resource Training 97

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. As with most of Biden’s big infrastructure initiatives, there are startups tackling these issues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2016

For a software startup, a patent can be the intellectual property providing the key competitive advantage, or it can be an expensive non-defensible bureaucratic nightmare -- or both. This is positive, in educating the public by making them aware of an unknown or non-obvious software invention. All patents require public disclosure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Do you believe that you have an idea for a company that you can implement better than anyone, and maintain a competitive advantage? What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available? Education and training roadblocks.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur Startup Resource Training 106

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

I wanted to connect LA’s incredible entrepreneurs with the larger business community and with the resources of USC.”. The second annual USC Silicon Beach event, hosted by the four professional schools at USC, featured a pitch competition and a conference filled with informational panels and interviews. Startup Pitch Competition.

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USC Cornerstone OnDemand Southern California Netflix 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2017

Will the solution give you an “unfair competitive advantage,” meaning no competitor already has it, or can replicate your solution without your skills or intellectual property. Is there an educated marketplace waiting? Don’t try to explain your technical implementation, your patent algorithm, or your unfair competitive advantage here.

Startup 58

Startup Education Ideas Customer 58

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Out of 41 companies who submitted their software for approval, only three were accepted--us, McGraw Hill, and Peoples Education. That has really improved our consistency, our delivery, our service offerings, and online resources for our students. Software is set to be transformative in the space of education. more) READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2013

Some investors seem to focus wholly on the strengths of the management team, or a sustainable competitive advantage, and in reality these are the core attributes for every funding equation. That means educating targeted supporters is key, even before you start to sell. Selling too early triggers customer defenses and drives them away.

Startup 117

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