Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

For example, in Silicon Valley, a “big data” startup might competitively call for a $1.5 million), but certainly also allowing the investor to put much lower values into each test, resulting in valuations well below that amount. million maximum value per element, while the same startup in Nebraska might find $500,000 appropriate.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The competitive advantages of doing this are very exciting, and we get a powerful response from both audiences. I started a company back in 2005, a very traditional kind of startup, where we had found angel money and had gone through traditional funding. How has the startup experience been for you versus Intuit?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad. BuildOnline (the company I founded) has just announcement plans to be more aggressive in growing in the US. Nice sweep!

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. The other thing, which turns out to be a competitive advantage we have over our competitors, is your data is completely safe with us.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

4) What lessons from launching the Lincoln Group in Baghdad in 2005 are transferable to today’s LA startup scene? And we hired folks who had previous leadership positions and proof points of being competitive. Smaller businesses gravitate to the cost savings.”. We decided to hire people that were younger and are trainable.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Unexpected Startup Lesson #1: Quitting the day job - Currently Obsessed , May 10, 2010 This post is the first of a series on “unexpected lessons&# learned through my experience as co-founder and CEO of Snapvine , a venture-backed mobile social networking service founded in 2005 and acquired by WhitePages in June of 2008.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2017

In Europe, over fifty percent of all the unicorns that have come out of Europe since 2005 have come from the Nordics. There's also toughter competition, because you're competing with the big boys. How did a fund originally from the Nordics become interested in investing in Los Angeles companies? As a very young VC, we can't do that.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. Who are your core customers? I have a Ph.D.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2010

Paul Graham built the mold at Y Combinator , which he founded back in 2005. Of course, they also have to bring a cleverly identified marketplace opportunity, and some value proposition that will set them apart from the competition and generate serious profitability.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

I had early success working in-house with Matt Coffin at LowerMyBills in 2005, and then I was brought on by Yahoo to build out the Yahoo Publisher Network Team. Is this at all competitive with LinkedIn? There are lots of people there doing competitive intelligence, or doing research on an industry or landscape.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Back in 2004-2005 I was working as a full-time web designer, where we used KDE (Linux). In 2011 I talked to a friend, Steffen Thilsted , who asked me if we should join a startup-competition called VentureCup together. Steffen was working in another startup called 1Calendar and studying as well. What was your motivation to start it?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2011

There seems to be a lot of competition in this area, not the least being Groupon Now. That was back in 2005, and the premise was that there were lots of sites to help job seekers and employers connect, but they didn't work for a segment of the population, such as dishwashers, busboys, and others who did not have access to the Internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 Think DropBox, Airbnb, Uber, Maker Studios.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. Competition. You need to ask yourself honestly how your product or service is going to be significantly better in some way than the competition that exists in the market. Of course the hardest competitor for most of us is simply customer inertia. You need a wedge.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Historically, it was something that started to develop before our launch with operators back in 2005, and it now serves as a laboratory for development of our product. What's your opinion on how well that works, and how much competition are they? So it's a white label offering. We also have Rabble.com, which we actually run ourselves.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 31, 2011

He used this term so often that it eventually became the title of his 2005 book on business advice. Despite the fact that these companies encompass wildly divergent industries, they all share the competitive advantage of a unique umbrella brand that is impossible to replicate.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

Dialpad was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and became the voice engine for Yahoo's VoIP services. John Nahm: The Northern California technology environment already assumes you already know a lot of stuff, and it's very competitive in nature. John Nahm: We started in January of 2007, and self-funded for a year.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

If you go back to 2005 and 2006 and look at a company which would have a $5M pre- then, it''s now $8 to $10M, all else equal. They have to be sensitive to competitive dynamics, but, if you are in ad-tech, and WPP or Google is the best buyer for your company, why not spend some time with a VP at Google?

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2010

I left that environment with that mindset, to create first AdExchange, and then AdECN around 2004-2005. I bought both search and display, email, and frankly every other kind of online media--and I felt that there must be a better way to make that work, more along the model of a financial market. Finally, how far along until you have product?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Data centers are a strategic layer of the value chain: data center efficiencies and deployments are some of Google’s key competitive advantages and trade secrets. So they skipped over those steps of the value chain, and purchased Android in 2005 (launched in 2008) to backwards integrate to the OS layer.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Page 3: Competition. Tim handled the product management, vision, roadmap and competitive questions like a pro. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. Page 4: Business Model. Page 5: Financials.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe. When your competition does irrational things to grow fueled by low-cost capital it makes it harder for you to compete by playing by the conventional rules.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

Although this option was not attractive to the management team, it was a viable alternative circa 2005 and it would have allowed our institutional investors to liquidate their investments. Doing nothing was the most realistic and potent competition faced by Citrix. Do Nothing.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet. There's more competition, but there's a lot more available to you as a developer. We allow them to participate, and help shape the community, as they play the games and quests. Are the tools really there now for you to be able to do that?

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check. My competition is not Rustic Canyon, it's not Clearstone, or the other venture firms in town. We're taking it seriously. To answer your earlier question, if we're getting involved in earlier stages, is GRP wants to do A round investments.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005).

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. One of the firm's co-founders, Adam Lieber , is now the founder and CEO of Webtide (www.webtide.com), which is also based here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Competition: Gilt Groupe , Ideeli , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , OneKingsLane , department stores like Saks and Neiman Marcus.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

My colleague at National Defense University, Dr. Tim Coffey, head of the Naval Research Laboratory for many years, called these two parts of discovery the "prospecting" and "mining" phases in a 2005 paper ( [link] ), where prospecting is largely the responsibility of the government and mining that of industry.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Between 2005 and 2008, there were lots of companies raising half a million, and selling for 15 million. It's also good to talk somewhat about the competition, and why this ideas is different from the others. True entrepreneurs always find a way to move the ball forward, without barriers. It's in the DNA of entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Assume competition and assume within the buying organization you have enemies. When we went to raise funds we faced lots of competition as there are of course many other VC funds in the country. Take nothing for granted. Make sure you stand out. It requires that you be unique and stand for something.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Money flowing into our industry has also massively downsized.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. The only way to get VCs to move is to make sure subtly that they feel a deal is or may become competitive. You need to create a sense of competition. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. Think it’s purely evil to fend off competition? In my mind public debate is the highest form of democracy. It proves that you really have freedom of speech. And there is relationship between debating and blogging. Let me explain.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable. The arguments “for” of many market participants ring as hollow as they did in 2005 when they told me I was an idiot for believing that Florida real estate prices would drop or in the dotcom 1.0

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