Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2012

The competition never stands still, and new opportunities are evolving, based on culture changes in your customers, new technologies, and new problems in the world which need to be solved. I’ve netted out his and others to create the following basic strategy for entrepreneurial growth: Apply your core competency to related markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

Keep up with the competition. billion in 2012. Ignoring what your competition does is sure to limit your business longevity. If you don’t get results, it might be a mismatch for your target market. Why not ask them for feedback before there is a problem, and watch what they are telling their friends, both good and bad?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 11, 2012

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 -- Managing Your Product/Service Lifecycle. How do you plan a roadmap to stay ahead of the competition while evaluating the myriad of new opportunities? Your product is just about to go out the door. Youre reviewing your launch plan and task assignments.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. When should you start a company?

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

This allowed the curriculum to efficiently find its product / market fit. The company was acquired by Becton, Dickinson and Company during August of 2012, for approximately $65 million. Apeel Sciences - Founded in 2012, after winning $10,000 at UCSB’s New Venture Competition, the company closed $1.25M in funding during 2013.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

We have our own A/B testing platform, and my team is responsible for that solution for desktop and native apps, not only for Walmart.com, but also online groceries and the market. started in August of 2012. Things started to slow down at that office, but around the 2012 time frame, Walmart was doubling down on their ecommerce platform.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

We have our own A/B testing platform, and my team is responsible for that solution for desktop and native apps, not only for Walmart.com, but also online groceries and the market. started in August of 2012. Things started to slow down at that office, but around the 2012 time frame, Walmart was doubling down on their ecommerce platform.

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San Diego Southern California Technology Artificial Inteligence 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families. How profitable is my product or service?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

The successful candidate will have an active network of client/agency relationships and a proven track record of building and delivering solid marketing solutions in an effective and scalable way. Sales Manager: We are seeking a smart, self-motivated and resourceful individual to join our team to help take our sales efforts to a new level.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

pitch and technology competition at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, I couldn’t help but feel like it might be a hall of crickets with a few passionate women warming the front row. Just like the sky scraping investment banks of Wall Street, the technology industry tends to be a sausage party.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2014

Anyone who is into action sports know that GoPro has absolutely changed how the market since its debut, where it''s more odd to see action sports athletes not using a GoPro than using one. We saw growth from just 850 filters in 2011 to 7500 filters in 2012. It seems like there''s quite an accessory market for the GoPro.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

Although Arena of Valor didn’t quite take off in Western markets, it has done well in Southeast Asia in part thanks to Tencent’s publishing partnership with the region’s internet giant Garena. That raises the question of whether Tencent can replicate its success in overseas markets where its social apps are largely absent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

Marketers see it as a better way to target customers, but the current consumer offerings have been slow to deliver. If your B2B contacts are frequenting other non-competitive local businesses, LBS data could point you to more lucrative business partnerships. Event marketing. See who checks into your competition.

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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. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5 Follow with a killer executive summary, investor presentation, and financial model.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2016

Cardenas: As avid followers of politics, we wanted to create something that would have the predictive powers of old-time prediction markets, such as Intrade. Greathouse: You mentioned Intrade, which was shut down by the government in 2012. Greathouse: You mentioned Intrade, which was shut down by the government in 2012.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2016

I eventually ended up here in 2012, where the company came out of an incubator here called Launchpad LA. It originally had been a consumer platform, to help people organize and optimize their loans, and it was only last April that we started looking at the enterprise market, and our employer facing platform was launched.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

With the SOLD OUT Startup Weekend Los Angeles quickly approaching (February 24th-26th, 2012) it’s time to start getting in the creation mindset. We are excited to part of this competition and to support others who are passionate about improving the state of education through technology.” But according to Ms.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

In a world that is hyper competitive – even amongst VCs – I can honestly say that not only is the media recognition accurate but it is amongst the proudest days I’ve had in developing Upfront Ventures and our future. From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. ” Numero uno. I was nowhere to be found.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

Last year at this time I spoke at VidCon and gave this presentation in which I said YouTube was “the Walmart of Online Video” but I also commented that I felt YouTube was vulnerable to competition because their rev share to MCNs wasn’t high enough to allow MCNs to build a profitable business inside of YouTube.

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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. Moto-X by Motorola: Motorola has been a mainstay in the mobile device market since the days of early flip phones. into yogurt, soft serve, and milk shakes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I often tell people that in some ways it’s easier to build great companies in down markets. ” But as entrepreneurs you don’t get to sit these years out and as investors we don’t get just let a few years pass and return back to the market. .” One needs to be in during bull markets and bear markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined. Crowd sample size and makeup not representative of market. Even online, the type of people who may respond to social media requests may bear very little relationship to the intended market.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The English/International version of the platform was launched in January 2012. Competition? How unique are you from the competition? As a social platform, exploreB2B is to a small degree, in competition with other social media platforms used for business (Twitter, LinkedIn, Quora). When was it launched and where?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2014

IPO market showed more activity than any other first quarter since 2000, with 64 companies raising $10.6 According to a 2012 study by PricewaterhouseCoopers , companies average $3.7 On the other hand, “competitive” salaries will likely go up, and health and retirement benefits will jump to a new level.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

There is no substitute for market research, written by domain experts, to supplement your informal poll of friends and family. Having no competitors is a red flag (may mean no market), but finding ten or more with a simple Google search means this may be a crowded space. Too little focus on marketing. Execution skills are weak.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

Where is the technology now, and is it on the market yet? That makes solar panels as a product not competitive at all, if you removed government subsidies. We believe that plastic solar cells will be uniquely competitive in windows applications, which we believe will be coming out in 2012, based on our own schedules.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined. Crowd sample size and makeup not representative of market. Even online, the type of people who may respond to social media requests may bear very little relationship to the intended market.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

DreamHost has a successful track record of incubating technologies in-house and then releasing them to the broader market. In 2012 the company rolled out Inktank, an innovative open source storage solution based on Ceph’s distributed file system, which was subsequently sold to Red Hat for $175 million.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

I’m not recommending that you saturate your discussions with lingo, but responding with a blank stare once-too-often won’t convince anyone that you can build the next world-changing business or outpace the market. Growth-hacking” marketing. Ramen-profitable. It’s a term of respect and endearment.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Our team was founded in May 2012 and we released our app on October 8 th , Chicago, IL. Competition? In android platform, there are two other competitors for this market: Dream Writer and Dream Diary. How unique are you from the competition? TechZulu caught up with the founders and we enjoyed the experience.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 9, 2013

Mikaila Ulmer is the 8 year old owner of BeeSweet Lemonade and 2012 Teenprenereur of the Year Award Recipient. Victoria Walker is the 11 year old winner of a Silicon Beach hackathon beating out nearly 120 professional computer developers at a competitive event and ultimately winning $20,000 to further develop a mobile app and market it.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2013

Obviously these folks were serious about winning this competition, and had no time to worry about who the guy taking pictures with his iPhone. When I asked one of the competing developers, Phillip Givens, what facilitated his interest in this specific competition, he quickly responded with “The sponsors.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2014

That was 2012. I founded Grokker in 2012. including Chief of their global personals online dating service and Head of Marketing for their multi-billion dollar worldwide Search & Marketplace businesses (Shopping, Travel, Autos, etc.). What makes you unique from the competition? Tell us more about yourself?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 7, 2011

While it won’t be completely exclusive to Google+ (Facebook’s launch will be later in Q1 of 2012), the release is for Google+ gamers only. TGFF includes aspects of competitive interaction, territory building, resource management and synchronous game play create a more immersive game world allowing players to enjoy longer.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. It''s also a dog-eat-dog world over there with the competition. We opened up an office in Shanghai, and we have marketing in Hangzhou. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. People don''t know that in China, you have to do your accounting every month.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We don''t spend a lot of time there, except that we''re active investors and bankers who are affected by what''s happening in the IPO market. That''s why the IPO markets coming back is so critical. David Siemer: More generally, the M&A market is solid. which is still a premier market for the world.

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