socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

In the last few years, Southern California has been a key market in launching mobile applications and services, due to a huge, mobile-savvy consumer population. Bart Molenda: Close5 is a mobile based app that makes it very simple to buy and sell, in particular in your area. However, classifies have not yet caught up with mobile.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Take for example retailers. On the one hand you can view their local stores as a competitive disadvantage because eCommerce companies can sell products with no physical retail stores. But how to mobilize same-day deliver cost effectively? And I guess we’re not the only ones to think so.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

The wind, he said, “refers to the ever-growing desire for quality by mobile gamers.” ” Breaking the wave, on the other hand, entails TiMi applying new development tools to building high-budget, high-quality AAA mobile games. “TiMi didn’t succeed in China because of WeChat and QQ.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

They bristle quickly when investors or even potential customers raise issues with real value, competition, risk, and sustainability. Then mobilize your support for these rewards through testimonials, input from experts, and traction. The reality is that good ideas are always challenged, so you need to expect it.

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Ideas Case Study Mobile Resource 126

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2022

These changes can be cultural, like the increasing need to be social, spawning Facebook and a hundred others, or technological, like the explosion of mobile devices around the world. Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Of course you now book when you want and even choose your restaurant based on availability at the time / day you want and you can book on your mobile phone at 2am or 8pm. and there was certainly less competition from everybody pitching local merchant solutions. And this week they unveiled V1 of the MyTime Mobile app.

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Development Team Review Course Mobile Writing 324

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. ” Here are some examples: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2015

Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. That says you are competitive today, have a real barrier to entry, and the potential to remain ahead of the competition for a long time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Jeff Bezos , CEO of Amazon, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down. Some VC firms are bogged down by their own weight.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

“If big companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon are prevented from acquiring startups, that actually reduces competition,” Sirinivasan writes. If big companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon are prevented from acquiring startups, that actually reduces competition. — Balaji S.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Journey is a platform to build data gathering mobile apps much faster than would traditionally have been possible. That is the problem Embark Mobile is set to solve across the world beginning in Africa. Journey was created by our company, Embark Mobile (or “Embark” for short). What has Embark Mobile done before this?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2014

Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. That says you are competitive today, have a real barrier to entry, and the potential to remain ahead of the competition for a long time.

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2019

com), which is developing analytics software which leverages mobile phones for data on customers. The hypothesis was, companies are in an extremely competitive environment, and it doesn't matter what company or industry they are in, it's been one of the most competitive environments we've seen in a long time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2019

For example, it’s always smart to start by making your entrance into a hot sector. For example, the IPhone from Apple, although an integration of complex computer services with telephony and photography, is so easy to use that preschoolers catch on immediately, and most of us can’t imagine surviving without a mobile link to friends.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

TestFlight recently joined forces with Burstly (www.burstly.com) to create a suite of apps for mobile developers and publishers. We spoke with Ben about how Burstly is now creating a company to help mobile developers create, develop, distribute, and monetize their apps. The way we go about that is different than the competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

These changes can be cultural, like the increasing need to be social, spawning Facebook and a hundred others, or technological, like the explosion of mobile devices around the world. Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books.

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Entrepreneur eBook Metrics Examples 93

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

If I’m covering a company can I get evidence of what the competition is doing so the story is balanced? ” In the post they list four charts with data showing how Christmas day is a huge driver of downloads for mobile applications (obviously because many people get new smartphones for the first time). Final example.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Capitalize on the massive trend and power of mobile. Highlight how your brand supports mobile, for shopping, purchase transactions, usage, and support. For example, rather than selling shoes, you could be selling a walking comfort service by digitally measuring feet and personalizing the fit to each customers’ unique requirement.

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Social Media Customer Custom Mobile 73

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

For example, Myriad Mobile raised $1.5 million for their agtech product, Bushel , which is an industry-first mobile grain app platform. Watch CoSchedule pitch at TechCo Startup of the Year Competition. Another local company, CoSchedule , just attracted $2.2 What makes Fargo an ideal place to start a company?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2018

Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. That says you are competitive today, have a real barrier to entry, and the potential to remain ahead of the competition for a long time.

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Competition Patents Resource Entrepreneur 51

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Jeff Bezos , CEO of Amazon, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down. Some VC firms are bogged down by their own weight.

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Class 125

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2018

They bristle quickly when investors or even potential customers raise issues with real value, competition, risk, and sustainability. Then mobilize your support for these rewards through testimonials, input from experts, and traction. The reality is that important change is always challenged, so you need to expect it.

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Ideas Case Study Mobile Resource 67

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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Artificial Inteligence Metrics Commerce Software 84

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

They bristle quickly when investors or even potential customers raise issues with real value, competition, risk, and sustainability. Then mobilize your support for these rewards through testimonials, input from experts, and traction. The reality is that important change is always challenged, so you need to expect it.

Ideas 92

Ideas Case Study Mobile Resource 92

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

They have a mobile app and I felt like it crashed too much for my liking. All applications crash and this is especially true in the nascent mobile world where dealing with device types, OS’s & networks adds one hell of a configuration management problem. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2018

The stalwarts should be making the big leaps to be competitive, rather than the other way around. For example, Kodak invested billions of dollars into technology for mobile phones and other digital devices, but didn’t recognize the impact of digital cameras on their core film business.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. Having been in this industry for awhile, how has mobile development been different from your prior experience? It's hard to establish a niche.

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Mobile Startup Software Review Platform 216

socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

In the world of mobile app and Internet startups, it''s not that often that you see companies who touch the hardware side of the world get funding nowadays. By way of example, our access point looks like a Wi-Fi router, but it has a coverage zone of 200 miles, depending on the obstructions that are in the way.

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Technical Review Software Review Networking Technology 213

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

40% of all of YouTube is viewed on mobile devices and of high-quality content I believe it is between 60-70% based on my insider data. Take for example, an eCommerce company. I believe that the high revenue share YouTube takes encourages platform competition. This is 14% of world population and 33% of all people online.

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SEM Content Platform Acquisition 150

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

They don’t realize that knocking competitors is assessed as a weakness and denying that you have any competition suggests there is no market for your solution. When comparing competition, don’t use fuzzy terms such as improved usability, faster, less expensive and more productive. Quantify your value over current market alternatives.

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Capital Competition Case Study Patents 63

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

If you think about it, in a multi-player game, for example, you have a very limited vocabulary for interaction. For example, if I were to have a room full of bouncing balls, we couldn't share that today because of the amount of information involved. Are Android and iOS then your competition? It's so much that it's impossible.

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Platform Startup Examples Web 168

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2013

However due to much controversy and competition, the same hasn’t played true while at large events (*cough* SXSW ). ” For those who haven’t had the chance to experience Uber, the mobile app connects people with professional drivers, delivering a convenient, on-the-go transportation solution.

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Software Review Technical Review Social Media Course 104

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2015

These changes can be cultural, like the increasing need to be social, spawning Facebook and a hundred others, or technological, like the explosion of mobile devices around the world. Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books.

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Entrepreneur eBook Metrics Startup 106

socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2011

Towards the end of last month, Culver City-based ThinkNear (www.thinknear.com) announced a seed round of funding for its location-based mobile advertising service, with notable inclusion of such firms as IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. To start, why don't you describe how your mobile ads work?

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Startup Mobile Culver City Los Angeles 177

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

If you''re familiar with Shszam, the mobile app which scans and tells you who an artist is, we''ve created something like Shazam for the real world. Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. An example of that is the UCLA flood.

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USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

One of our core tasks was “market analysis,&# which consistent of: market sizing, market forecasts, competitive analysis and then instructing customers on which direction to take. I was in the midst of sizing the mobile handset markets in 3 regions: US, Europe and Asia. As scientific as that. I called another agency.

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Statistics Startup Report Research 415

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Gabe Gottlieb: We provide competitive and market intelligence for online advertising. We help brands and agencies understand how their competitors are advertising, where their creative is running, what their spending is across all sorts of channels on digital, whether that's desktop, mobile, tablet, or video. What's next for you?

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Bertelsmann Advertising Startup Santa Monica 100