2014 Competition Entrepreneur Mobile 
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Both are required to stay competitive. I have added my own insights, based on my experience advising and working with entrepreneurs and startups: Pay for results, rather than pay for work. Mobility and connecting to work via the ‘cloud.’ 57 million workers identified themselves as freelancers in 2019, up 4 million since 2014.
Tech Zulu Event
MARCH 25, 2014
Tons of great conversations about new startups, hardware, and the entrepreneurs building them. As we know, long gone are the days of experiencing SXSW Interactive with just 9,000 other tech entrepreneurs and business brights – with 30,000 registrants in 2013 and the final numbers for 2014 still in the works.
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Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 29, 2022
Both are required to stay competitive. I have added my own insights, based on my experience advising and working with entrepreneurs and startups: Pay for results, rather than pay for work. Mobility and connecting to work via the ‘cloud.’ 58 million workers identified themselves as freelancers in 2021, up 5 million since 2014.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2016
We believe that it is incrementally harder to differentiate on simple Internet products or mobile apps and while great companies are built doing this, our goal as a fund is to try and fund things that can be 100x returns if they work. We’re not Pollyannaish about this. In short, we’re after venture returns.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
Entrepreneurs need to look more broadly into the business-to-business (B2B) space for more lucrative opportunities. Beyond mobile phones, the same concepts can be applied to embedded systems, portable navigation devices, and laptops. See who checks into your competition. Track the competition. Marty Zwilling.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 9, 2015
One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. 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. Make your app support all platforms.
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