Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

We know to do this we need to fund projects that are more difficult in scope, more ambitious in industry transformation, less obvious in market adoption and a higher probability of not working. They have plans to go after they peanut allergies and move on to a host of other food-related illnesses and problems including dairy.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2015

Susan was a co-founder of remote service pioneer PlumChoice, again turning a start-up into a market leader. She’s a startup advisor, mentor, investor and was a finalist in Fortune’s 2014 Brainstorm Tech Startup Idol competition. She’s also an advisor, mentor and investor in several startups.

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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. Indiegogo is a platform for ground breaking technology and where you can find interesting products that haven’t hit the mainstream market. BlackTech Week (Miami, FL).

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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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The speaks to the continued confidence in the venture capital markets and as I had predicted some time ago the VC markets right now are a great place to invest – especially relative to other places to put one’s money. We also promoted Jordan Hudson to principal in 2014 and have encouraged him to begin looking at deals.

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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

JUNE 6, 2014

In the first quarter of 2014, the U.S. IPO market showed more activity than any other first quarter since 2000, with 64 companies raising $10.6 With 103 new filings during the quarter, the rest of 2014 is on track to keep up this record pace. Market volatility usually hits public companies first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

Creating a successful startup is all about marketing these days, no matter how compelling your solution. According to Urban Dictionary , hype is “a clever marketing strategy where a product is advertised as the thing everyone must have, to the point where people begin to feel they need to consume it.” Peak of inflated expectations.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. The company got acquired by FD in 2014, and over the next two or three years, a lot of people just left the business. You mention you have a lot of deployments on Shopify.

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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. Provide focused event marketing. See who checks into your competition. If you know your contacts’ real-life interests, you could use that information in your marketing efforts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2014

Expand the market for both. Typically, there are market opportunities that neither of your core competencies can win alone. Where your competitor isn''t really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 06/06/2014.

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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

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. The other thing that tech execs often want to do is to delegate the PR to their marketing person. I see too many people who do that.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

That was in 2014, and that was our pivot moment. Anne Fulton: I'm actually a Kiwi, a New Zealander, and all of our product and marketing is done out of New Zealand. It all happened in 2014, really fast. The education around new products and bringing them to the market is the same in both markets.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing. I built my own company around marketing services, and have been around business development, marketing, custom service, and sales, and also on the consumer side of technology, a little bit a mix of the two.

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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. Joanne Chen, Partner at Foundation Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2011

Internet marketers see it as a better way to target consumers, and even retarget them to close a sale. 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. Thought leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Instead, they need to validate a customer problem and real market need first. Smart entrepreneurs build market-driven solutions, per the following principles: Size the opportunity and customer interest first. Your passion isn’t enough to create a market. Disruptive technologies require customer education to create a new market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Ability to source information easily to help build a thesis around companies / industries / competition. He jumped into some portfolio company exercises to help with pricing strategies, budget templates, M&A support, marketing function reviews, etc and started to show us how valuable he was to entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. His professional background includes having held marketing-executive roles at big companies as well as startups. Email marketing. Direct mail marketing. business David T.

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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. A strategy of learning and willingness to pivot, based on market feedback, is a great survival skill and attitude, cherished by investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal. Like with many consumer brands geared toward women, we buy in not just because of the marketing, but because of the product itself. Glossier’s commoditized feminism aside, it’s no easy task to launch a $1.8 And who cares?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Both have worked.Google reached $1 billion in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $400 billion. Understanding competitive early-mover requirements. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/1/2014. entrepreneur revenue startup user count'

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , 2014 was a strong year with IPOs actually outperforming other indices by 10 percent. Yet they see warning lights flashing, based on a still fragile global economy, and volatile markets ahead. Violent market swings usually hit public companies first.

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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. Forecast sales-volume expectations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2016

That’s down from 69 in the first five months of 2015, and 115 over the same five-month period in 2014, according to Barrons. Concerns over valuations being reset to a new normal, and a soft exit market, are seen as key drivers. Market volatility usually hits public companies first. Analysts want escalating profits.

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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. Above all, don’t forget to develop a comprehensive marketing and promotion strategy. Be there intentionally rather than randomly.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

But the drugs aren’t cures, and competition looms. In August 2014—just six months after moving into its new glass towers —Vertex announced plans to take telaprevir off the market. In its early days, Vertex helped bring two HIV drugs to market. Has Vertex has learned from its past missteps?

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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

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. Alternatively, a strong opening that focuses on the “total addressable market” in clear and concise language is also appropriate. Focus on your designated market area instead.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 8, 2014

The initial company, Roam Mobility Service came to market in January 2012. Considering the size of the addressable market (60M visiting the US, 20M Canada), their goal was to create products that allowed every Canadian entering the US to forget about roaming fees. On why the market has been so slow to adopt?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Our model has us at break-even in our second full year post launch (2014). For competitive reasons, we don’t want to disclose this just yet. Its a huge market. We have plans for at least six different revenue streams that will be rolled out over the next three years. Are You Alone in This Space? Why Social Networking?

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Our civic center actually had to upgrade their broadband because we needed a really good Wi-Fi with the competition being done on computers. On the final night of the competition, Visit Rapid City treated competitors, coaches, and parents to a reception at Crazy Horse Memorial. We were able to get all that accomplished.”.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Whilst the tide is turning, there’s still a need to educate startup founders about the competitive advantage well-designed products and services can bring. I see design as a direct route to free marketing through the positive word of mouth it helps to generate. Ben Chestnut’s reverse marketing funnel 9. growth hacking.

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