Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. It was a way to make it hard for your competition to compete. I learned to avoid unnecessary conferences, avoid non-essential costs and strive for at least a neutral EBITDA if for no other reason than nobody was interested in giving us any more money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is over $900 billion.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2018

Since 2006, the Startup of the Year (SOTY) events and programs have uncovered some of the top emerging companies in the world, such as Uber, GrubHub, Groupon, LivingSocial, AddThis, and Desk. Being a part of the SOTY alumni lasts well beyond the pitch competition. A Strong Alumni Network. It’s time to get noticed! APPLY HERE.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Minimal Science / Technology – Other than the technology associated with ecommerce, most successful MBA startups do not rely on technological innovations or fundamental, scientific discoveries to achieve a competitive advantage. That said, a few tech-heavy exceptions include Wildfire, acquired by Google and Behance, purchased by Adobe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Exposure instills the fear and urgency you need to deliver the right competitive solution. Since 2006, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York, has grown by more than 65 percent. Exposure is another key ingredient. Exposure to customers, incumbents, and competitors all drive success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is around $400 billion.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 74

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). Competition: McAfee , Symantec. Founded in December 2006 in San Francisco by Farb Nivi (ex-Princeton Review/Kaplan top instructor).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Total raised: $120.3mm; $43.5mm raised prior to 2006 recap; post-recap, raised $7.7mm; Series B in 2009 for $15mm; – Read more: VentureWire (requires subscription). Competition: Pingg, MyPunchbowl, TinyPrints , PaperlessPost. Competition: Apple iPhone App Store Genius. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books. MetaMarkets.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

Founded by James Reinhart out of Harvard Business School (semi finalist in annual business plan competition). Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. Previously raised $100m Series A from Sequioa, Battery Ventures, and General Catalyst in 2006. Watch the show! We covered ‘em all.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 28, 2015

Do Nothing – Taking no action was the potent competition faced by Citrix. During late 2006 I helped the CEO of RedMojo sell his company to Novell. Companies that seek buyers are often viewed as damaged goods which cannot otherwise succeed as self-sustaining entities. VC Funding Alternative.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2016

While drafting the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, federal lawmakers intentionally carved out an exception for businesses like ours. Do you think your real competition will come from new sites or existing ones like PredictIt ? We welcome competition from new sites, as it pushes us to create an even better product.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. All of that might be true, but the 2006 price might still be over-valued. That doesn’t mean it’s not a bubble. Trust me, we’re all hurt when bubbles burst.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

Exposure instills the fear and urgency you need to deliver the right competitive solution. Since 2006, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York, has grown by almost 65%. Exposure is another key ingredient. Exposure to customers, incumbents, and competitors all drive success.

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Startup Technical Review Oracle Software Review 109

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Exposure instills the fear and urgency you need to deliver the right competitive solution. Since 2006, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York, has grown by almost 65%. Exposure is another key ingredient. Exposure to customers, incumbents, and competitors all drive success.

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Sites Startup Technical Review Oracle 59

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is about $126 billion.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

Albert Ko: I started at Cornell University in the Class of 2006, with a degree in material science engineering and a masters in management engineering. There is lots and lots of competition in the area, how is your firm different from the others? Let's talk about your background, and also how this related to CheapCheapCheat?

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Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is around $400 billion.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

For the more questionable ones, ones with less sustainable differentiation, this time it''s a little tougher than a couple of years ago, and certainly much more so than 2006 and 2007. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is about $46 billion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Exposure instills the fear and urgency you need to deliver the right competitive solution. From 2006 to 2011, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York, according to Wessel, has grown by almost 65%. Exposure is another key ingredient. What will set your business apart?

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Startup Technical Review Oracle Entrepreneur 102

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

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. These funds were active back in 2006 when I was raising money for my second company. I find this strange. And maddening.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

At the same time, it’s a smart manufacturing decision, as American-made quality usually stands head and shoulders above outsourced competition. LED Flashlights by Maglite : In 2006, Maglite introduced LED illumination into the company’s product portfolio. Users can always see who’s at their door no matter where they are.

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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. The market is super-competitive, and your quality has to be amazingly high. How do you figure out how to get past all of that noise, and create a popular title?

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Mobile Startup Software Review Platform 216

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

What we bring to the table is competitive analytics, where we consider your security adversary, and figure how they are trying to break your system, under different scenarios, and recommend a plan which optimizes your security strategy. It was started at the University of Southern California in 2006-2007.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and value themselves today internally at $4B or more.

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Startup Course Yahoo Invest 97

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 What about your competition – how much do they charge? This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. Ajax was the new buzzword and many companies went overboard.

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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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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Also at Startup Night will be 25 diverse and innovative startups showcasing their latest products, competing for prizes including: $1K from LaunchKC , Business Extra Points from American Airlines , and a fast tracked spot to the Startup of the Year semifinals competition at Innovate Celebrate 2018. Eric Mathews, Founder and CEO of Start Co.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and value themselves today internally at $4B.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). Page 3: Competition. My blog was wiped out. Can it really be a month since my last blog posting?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. When I went to raise money in 2006 I thought I knew every term in a term sheet but somehow I still got a bit duped by the option pool shuffle.

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Venture Capital Pricing Startup Funding 405

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

I made a simple web interface and at the end of 2006 I found it really useful so I decided to buy IconFinder.com for a public site. In 2011 I talked to a friend, Steffen Thilsted , who asked me if we should join a startup-competition called VentureCup together. That domain was taken, so I chose IconFinder.net instead.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

They really didn''t want to have to be competitive and share their exchange rates with those companies. 2006, however, was hotter than a biscuit. The reason why, is Qwest is a local exchange carrier, and they were doing lots of local exchange business for lots of conference companies. We''re already seeing that.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2011

As with most negotiations, competition is the only way you will obtain an optimal result. During the summer of 2006, I joined RedMojo as an Advisor. Then take your “greatest hits” term sheet and communicate to each debtor, “I like this rate, that fee, this covenant, this drawdown schedule and that interest-only period.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After quietly lobbying for Rapid City to become a host city since 2006, she made it onto the agenda to give a formal presentation at ICPC 2013 in St. Our civic center actually had to upgrade their broadband because we needed a really good Wi-Fi with the competition being done on computers. Petersburg, Russia. “It

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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. It’s not publicly known exactly when Google began developing Chrome and Chromium, but it must have been late 2006 or early 2007 since Chrome launched in September 2008.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

He co-founded Mindshare LA in 2006. He can also spin fire while balancing on a circus ball and whistlin – but not just any whistling, eric finished in the top 10 at the world’s whistling competition in Louisburg, North Carolina. Talks Schedule: 10am: Introduction to “What Comes Next?”. Douglas Campbell / @ProjectFresh.

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