Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2019

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

MAY 16, 2019

According to XPRIZE, it decided to split the top $10M award in the competition between two winners-- Kitkit School , which has developed a learning program using a "game-based core"; and onebillion , a developer of "numeracy content" and literacy material. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

MAY 16, 2019

The five strategies: Picking one to emphasize. There are five strategic positioning areas for you to consider. There are five niches you can chose when defining your positioning strategy: price, quality, service, innovation, and elegance. So, how do you position yourself to be a stand out? That’s our subject this week.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 14, 2019

Especially if you are in the early stage of growing a business, these five risks can and often do derail entrepreneurs before realizing the riches of a great exit. In the creation of your enterprise, there are five principal risks you’ll need to navigate. And fifth: Competitive risk. . So, let’s examine them and mitigate them.

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socalTECH

MARCH 23, 2018

The XPRIZE Foundation , the Los Angeles nonprofit which helps run prize-based competitions to help solve the world's problems, said it has named five finalists in the $1.75M Water Abundance XPRIZE --its prize which is aimed at encouraging the development of technology which can extract water from merely thin air. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Competitive and leadership leverage. A good strategy provides opportunities for internal actions and leaders to optimize and extend a firm’s competitive advantage. Business success is an elusive target – with over fifty percent of new businesses continuing to fail in the first five years.

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socalTECH

JULY 1, 2013

VIMBY , the Los Angeles-based, online production studio created by Mark Burnett, is powering a new entrepreneurship competition from Walmart, the Get On The Shelf crowdsourcing competition. Up to five of those product will be chosen to be sold on Walmart.com, based on public voting tied to those web series.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2017

When you’re in a competition and on the spot, answering questions to industry experts can be a nerve-wrecking process. This competition required the team to answer “…questions on a Food and Nutrition data set that contained 28 features and 30,000+ rows. This article is courtesy of the Galvanize blog.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 15, 2012

In the creation of a new enterprise, there are five principal risks to be addressed by the entrepreneur. Professional investors will probe these five risk areas and make the decision to invest based upon comfort with each. And fifth: Competitive risk.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 26, 2024

There are just five days left to enter the digital detox competition set up by Icelandic Yogurt company Siggi’s Dairy, which has pledged to give selected contestants $10,000 to spend an entire month “detoxing” without a smartphone or social media.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 13, 2011

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 -- Five Hidden Mistakes CEOS Make: How to Thrive in the New Economy. They want to grow profits and revenues, beat the competition, and be proactive rather than reactive in their marketplace. Speaker: Tom Northup, President/ CEO, Leadership Management Group. All successful leaders want to achieve success.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 18, 2015

There are five basic kinds of internal risks than a business faces over time. Fourth is competitive risk , which consists of two separate risks. The time it takes may well be the difference between survival and doom; or it may be the plan that distances you from your competition if events do occur in your mutual future.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Chick Launcher , the local effort to help bolster women led startups, has named the five finalists for its Fast Pitch Competition, the group said this week. The entrants to the competition had to have a woman co-founder, president or CEO, or be majority owned by women, but can be in any industry. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Bill’s advice reflects Microsoft’s hardnosed culture, which encourages internal competition and a ruthless pursuit of the truth. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself." " [Tweet this quote]. As noted in Core Values , the culture of your startup is entirely in your hands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

One of the key sections of any business plan is the analysis of the competition. Investors take that to mean either 1) there is no market for your product, or 2) you don’t understand the concept of business and competition. It will certainly also decrease profitability over time, as well as test your sustainable competitive advantage.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Below are five common questions an entrepreneur will encounter when seeking venture funding. Entrepreneurs who can openly describe their team’s weaknesses, negative exogenous factors and potentially lethal competitive threats have a higher likelihood of success. From a venture capitalist’s point of view, there are no “trick” questions.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Other investment bankers insist that the company create competition for a deal, even if the buyer has already submitted a letter of interest to the seller. Competition opens the deal to more public access, slows the deal and could give competitors wind of an otherwise confidential process. Then there is the question of fees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2012

Porter proposed his Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment which I think makes even more sense today. Every existing business, as well as every startup, needs to reassess their product or service in the context of these five forces: Intensity of competitive rivalry. Way back in 1979, Michael E.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2010

One of the most important questions you will be asked by potential investors is how your solutions beats the competition, not just today, but over the three to five year life of their investment. The concept is called “sustainable competitive advantage.” That implies competitive now, and the potential to stay in the lead.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Santa Barbara-based whole home audio systems maker Sonos has filed another patent infringement suit at Google , saying that Google has infringed on five wireless audio patents held by the company. Google's new Chromecast and Nest smart speakers are direct competition to the line of Sonos audio products. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 14, 2017

According to the two, they are running a global startup competition as part of an upcoming event in November. The groups said startups that apply to the competition must be less than five years in business with revenues of less than $5 million and have products in pilot, beta or prototype stage. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The company said the Grand Prize in the competition is $12,000, plus 20 hours of remote support, with lower level prizes including $2000 and tickets to shows at the iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles, and a third prize of $1000 plus five iPad Air 2's, and five Amazon Echo Dots. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

And if that new strategy is proved to be true, the five-hundred-pound gorilla in that niche just moved out of the way of many of its smaller competitors, leaving a market that will surely see a scramble for new competition in the near future.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Los Angeles-based Enrou , an online marketplace for fashion and lifestyle products which benefit causes such as education, entrepreneurship, the environment, empowerment of women, and youth, has scored a $400,000 prize from Forbes, as part of a competition from the magazine publisher. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Below are five common questions an entrepreneur will encounter when seeking venture funding. Entrepreneurs who can openly describe their team’s weaknesses, negative exogenous factors and potentially lethal competitive threats have a higher likelihood of success. From a venture capitalist’s point of view, there are no “trick” questions.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 19, 2019

” As for the broader competitive landscape — which includes companies that started with razors or cologne but have broader ambitions in men’s personal care — Mullenax said, “The industry is becoming increasingly competitive, and it should be, it’s a huge category.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Here are five good reasons for setting the strategy early, as summarized by Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy in their new book “ Now, Build a Great Business! All strategic and business thinking must lead to immediate action to increase sales and profitability potential, relative to your competition. Intellectual property (IP).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2011

A related “red flag” in a business plan is a missing competitive analysis section, or a short paragraph that essentially says, “this product has no competition.” My reaction is, if there is no competition, then there is no market demand for your product, so why are you building it? This is the traditional realm of computers.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 29, 2022

What if we could do it better, do it in a new way, do it to attract new customers, do it to distance ourselves form the competition? Another great way to think like a growth CEO: The Stanford Design School teaches ideation as a five-step process, fitting nicely into the four questions above. What wows?

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Berkonomics

JUNE 16, 2022

For larger or later stage companies, it could be to increase market share through acquisitions with the attendant elimination of competition or increase in a company’s reach. I prefer a financial goal, such as “achieve $20 million in revenue within five years.” Have you stated a goal for others to follow?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In the book, and in his popular lecture series, he says you can do it yourself, and outlines five steps to success, which I have adapted a bit for startups as follows: Analyze existing media, social media, and your demographics. Get to know the five W’s of these and others – who, what, where, when, and why. Pick your fit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2016

If you have a proven business model with some sales, it’s credible to apply a multiplier of five to 10 times this number for the first element of valuation. Patents filed, even provisional, as well as trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets count as barriers to entry and sustainable competitive advantages. million.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The original Lunar XPRIZE competition had been backed by Google as the Google Lunar XPRIZE; the XPRIZE Foundation is now seeking a new title sponsor to re-launch the Lunar XPRIZE effort. According to ispace, it is using the technology developed by the HAKUTO team for its new effort, called HAKUTO-R.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2022

A related “red flag” in a business plan is a missing competitive analysis section, or a short paragraph that essentially says, “this product has no competition.” My reaction is, if there is no competition, then there is no market demand for your product, so why are you building it?

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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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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2015

Marina Del Ray''s XPrize Foundation , the group which is behind a number of large, prize-based competitions to help advance technology, said Monday that it has awarded $6.0M in total to five different teams, for their progress in overcoming key technical risks to land a mission on the moon.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Big news in the social gaming sphere as major interactive gaming player Kabam announces the launch of The Godfather: Five Families out of beta and into commercial exclusively with Google+ Games. The Godfather: Five Families is Kabam’s fastest growing game coming out of beta by a wide margin.

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