Berkonomics

APRIL 9, 2020

And these are indeed strange times, especially if you haven’t lived through 2000-2002 and 2007-2008 recessions and difficulty in finding money from banks and investors. And profits from the sale of the product create cash for development of the next product. The simple economic truth. Here is a simple economic truth.

Competition 156

Competition Sales Marketing Product 156

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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.

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Startup Customer Custom 150

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. For businesses like this, finding new ways to drive more of these high-value inbound sales calls is key. Who do you view as your biggest competition?

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

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MAY 19, 2010

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Founded in 2007. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. Time will tell. Employees: 27.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

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JULY 10, 2010

Founded by James Reinhart out of Harvard Business School (semi finalist in annual business plan competition). Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. Is a super-simple online management and admin tool for real-world groups. Woot was one of the first one-per-day item sales site with a humorous and not always PC content.

Venture Capital 242

Venture Capital Mission Ventures Capital Help 242

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JUNE 12, 2010

Google Analytics vs. Facebook’s new analytics tool. Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. These are both either “remnant” or free ad types.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

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JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308