Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Ability to source information easily to help build a thesis around companies / industries / competition. Our theme for 2014 is “teach a firm to fish” where we build more scalable support for portfolio companies. And we’ve begun relaunching our “platform services” for entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

When we met Shireen (CEO) and Scott (Co-founder & CTO) in late 2014 they had been inspired to create Nima to address their own personal food issues and empower other people to live their healthiest lives. We are predisposed to backing founders who solve problems in which they have personal knowledge that is authentic.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Apeel Sciences - Founded in 2012, after winning $10,000 at UCSB’s New Venture Competition, the company closed $1.25M in funding during 2013. With over 700 certified iTechs nationwide and abroad, the company''s 2014 revenues are rumored to surpass $30 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

It’s why in this article I advise that people “market today not futures” because you don’t want your playbook in the hands of the competition. This is especially true in a booming market (like 2014) where PR firms can charge premiums and be super selective about whom they work with.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

BlackTech Week was created in 2014, and in four short years, they’ve gained over 2700 participants, 150 speakers, and 3 pitch competitions. Driving funding to early-stage startups and small businesses is what we do here and being a part of the Startup of the Year Competition was a no-brainer for us. APPLY HERE TODAY!

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2014

Just this year, we put on our second Hackamotive--our second annual event for 2014--around making car shopping easier. steinlauf edmunds hackathon hack software developer contest competition automotive auto' We hopes that we could see some folks come in from outside, employ what we had, and see what would come out of it. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 14, 2014

JG: Tell us a bit about Project Impact and 2014''s focus on innovation. It’s an open competition that awards $100,000 and a year of management support to the most promising early stage nonprofit that is helping low-income Chicagoans to rise out of poverty. We’re planning to kick of this year’s competition later this spring.".

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2013

starting in Spring of 2014. Through the STEAM Carnival, kids will be encouraged to participate in and will be showcased through activities such as creative competitions, a digital art gallery, a fashion show of wearable electronics and even a concert featuring musical robots.

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High Tech Entertainment Education Startup 108

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. The key takeaway? What can you tell us about MuteSix as an agency?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2011

If your B2B contacts are frequenting other non-competitive local businesses, LBS data could point you to more lucrative business partnerships. See who checks into your competition. Understand the competition. Coopetition,” or strategic cooperation with a competitor is another angle. Sponsorships and advertising. Lead generation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Institutional venture capital dispensed thus far in 2014 has been up significantly over the last few years, but is still less than half of the peak hit way back in the year 2000 (over $100 billion). Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 12/19/2014. Super Angels sometimes drive up valuations.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

OCTOBER 25, 2010

But it has proven something of a challenge to understand exactly what its impact will be for individual businesses — especially in light of the fact that many of its provisions won't take effect until 2014 or later, and could even change between now and their effective dates. It depends on the size of the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Throughout all of this we saw a tinkerer, a problem solver and a completely obsessed leader who was competitive and wanted to win. But we were sure that Jamie would be maniacally focused on improving the product, marketing the dream to consumers and out-maneuvering the slower-moving competition. We weren’t sure.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2015

She’s a startup advisor, mentor, investor and was a finalist in Fortune’s 2014 Brainstorm Tech Startup Idol competition. Susan graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is the author of ‘The e-Auction Insider’ by McGraw-Hill.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

If your B2B contacts are frequenting other non-competitive local businesses, LBS data could point you to more lucrative business partnerships. See who checks into your competition. Track the competition. Coopetition,” or strategic cooperation with a competitor is another angle. Broadcast sponsorships and advertising.

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Competition Entertainment Advertising Social Media 84

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/20/2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

If your B2B contacts are frequenting other non-competitive local businesses, LBS data could point you to more lucrative business partnerships. See who checks into your competition. Understand the competition. Coopetition,” or strategic cooperation with a competitor is another angle. Sponsorships and advertising. Lead generation.

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Services Competition Mobile Entertainment 82

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2016

It is no secret that the number of private companies with valuations in excess of one billion dollars has skyrocketed since the start of 2014. As show in CBInsight’s chart, the number of such “unicorns” created during the first half of 2014 was roughly equivalent to the number created during the prior three years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2014

The information exchange from day-to-day interactions of engineers and marketers will drive you enhance your own processes to be more competitive. It is smarter to capitalize on the positive aspects of a competitive situation rather than killing each other so no one wins. Expand core competency and solidify strengths.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal. Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso is credited with coining the term in the title of her 2014 memoir, “#Girlboss,” which chronicled her rags-to-riches success and was adapted into a Netflix show.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2022

Both are required to stay competitive. 58 million workers identified themselves as freelancers in 2021, up 5 million since 2014. The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

In light of a less than savory PR landscape, I saw this event to be an important call to attention to the developements towards the Bitcoin industry for 2014, as well as geographically important gathering of minds and enthusiasts in the space. Setting Up 2014. Some rapid fire discussion points. Bitcoin specific job boards.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2014

From an investor perspective, understanding and acting early to establish a sustainable competitive advantage, and barrier to entry, is the best assurance of a financial return. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/28/2014. Registered patents and other intellectual property.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 15, 2010

In later years (2014-2018) insurance becomes mandatory, middle and lower income people will get subsidies to pay for insurance and other changes will take place. Some small businesses will have incentives to offer health plans and will have access to state run exchanges designed to provide competitive rates.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After a successful run through NYC-based Kaplan Edtech accelerator program (powered by Techstars), the team at MentorMob have been gearing up for a 2014 re-launch; same MentorMob name, but as Vince tells us, with a more community-based focus (don’t worry, a little more on that later). How we got the invite? ” What’s Next?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2014

In 2014, Sodexo committed $1 Billion to creating a more inclusive global supply chain for its hospitality products, forming partnerships between its local operations and small to medium sized businesses run by women in the developing world. Here are a few of the commitments announced: · Small Business, Big impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

If you claim no competition, investors may perceive that you have no market, or you haven’t looked. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/12/2014. The best solutions, from a customer perspective, are able to mask the technology with a very simple and usable interface that focuses on their problem only.

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Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2018

Torley, who joined San Diego-based Halozyme as CEO in 2014, was among five local business leaders to win the 2018 San Diego Entrepreneur of the Year award. The regional competition is part of the global. The 16 finalists are in the above photo.) Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Understanding competitive early-mover requirements. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/1/2014. These days, you need customer evangelists who see the value and will pull in their friends through viral actions to keep the business growing. entrepreneur revenue startup user count'

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Even if you know your product/service suite down cold, understand the strengths/weaknesses of the competition, and have built pro forma financials that are sane. A report projecting a sector will achieve $70 billion in revenue by 2014 will make you look like an amateur. you still have to write the plan for a particular audience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

What most entrepreneurs fail to appreciate is that even the most basic marketing takes time, money and creativity, and even the best still may not succeed in winning over competitive approaches or the status quo. According to Gartner's Hype Cycle Special Report for 2014 , wearable user interfaces such as Google Glass are now in this stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

If you don’t have a destination, don’t waste your money trying to get there, and don’t expect anyone to support you along the way Projecting financials is a natural extension of the homework every entrepreneur needs to do on customer opportunity size, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Of course, every risk level can be mitigated by a good plan that addresses the issue, offers a credible action plan, and will convince you, as well as investors and customers, that what looks like a risk to many is actually a sustainable competitive advantage for your startup. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/31/2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

In 2014 Tumblr overtook Instagram as fastest-growing social platform, and Snapchat is the fastest-growing mobile app, driven largely by Millennials and teens. That won’t build any competitive advantage. When the glass is only.04% 04% full, you should start looking for a new container. Where are the young social media users going?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The company got acquired by FD in 2014, and over the next two or three years, a lot of people just left the business. In 2014, there were a few hundred stores running on Shopify, as the e-commerce market was quite fragmented. They were an almost $750 million dollar ecommerce company focused on the gifting space.

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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. “Made in the USA” is more than just a slogan; it’s a philosophy for business, one that emphasizes the importance of staying within the national economy and creating products of the highest quality.

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