Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2015

In fact, most employee training courses recommend the distance if the work relationship crosses management levels, and most management policies strictly forbid fraternizing with the team. Yet the 2015 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. Can be a competitive advantage. Of course, all these things can happen in any workship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2015

Of course, if you don’t yet understand all the elements, it’s time to learn. Marty Zwilling ** First published on Entrepreneur.com on 1/16/2015. No executive I know writes all his own contracts, but every smart one owns every one that is written for him, and understands every element.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The bad news is that many are already doing it, with competition growing, so the longer you wait, the less chance you have of getting there first. In a new startup, there is tremendous competitive value in registering intellectual property early, but you don’t need to contract these tasks to expensive experts any longer.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In addition to an Undergraduate Certificate, the Program is launching a Master of Technology Management degree in 2015. Apeel Sciences - Founded in 2012, after winning $10,000 at UCSB’s New Venture Competition, the company closed $1.25M in funding during 2013. All-Star Alumni. Am I biased?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Don’t let day-to-day demands take the reins and drag you off course. Make doing the right thing your competitive edge today, and the key to your long-term success. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/30/2015. Provide leadership to your team for doing the right thing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2015

Companies can use this strategy to improve their profitability and competitive advantage. According to the Edelman 2015 Trust Barometer , 81% of global consumers believe it is acceptable for brands to support good causes and make money at the same time. Doing good opens the door to a broader customer base.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

We All Know That Dollars into Venture Have Gone Up … As a starting point, we know that the dollars into venture have steadily rebounded to pre great-recession levels, with just under $30 billion committed to US technology venture capital in 2015. And of course, 50% want a good balance across all stages: seed, traditional and growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Competitor positioning and sustainable competitive advantage. Of course, these should never be in a customer pitch, but investors expect an overall strategy with specific budgets, milestones and metrics. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/29/2015. Specific elements of your marketing and sales plans.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

The number of startups rose in 2015 for the first time in five years, with the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. Entrepreneurs who have no patents, trade secrets or trademarks are usually deemed non-fundable and non-competitive. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/20/2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

While you are doing all this work, of course, you need deep pockets to fund all your efforts, content and growing website hosting fees. With the competition today for ads on popular sites such as Twitter, the probability of new sites building a big revenue stream from ads is even lower.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. The initial Apple/AT&T deal was of course limited to the geography in which AT&T operated and thus after its initial success Apple had a template for exclusivity agreements in other countries. The Mother of All Exclusivity Agreements – the iPhone Wouldn’t Exist .

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015. Of course that’s true. But needed to be seen. Entrepreneurs could learn about loneliness of success: nobody talks about. And the immediate reaction was obvious – that failure can be pretty lonely, too.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

If the data held up in wider testing, it could mean that hepatitis C could be cured someday with a short course of pills, without the flu-like symptoms that dogged regimens of the past. “It Sales of both drugs, ivacaftor (Kalydeco) and the combo pill ivacaftor-lumacaftor (Orkambi), reached almost $1 billion in 2015 and are growing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But of course all of these things are intertwined. Obviously you need to be mentally flexible enough to spot if your instincts were wrong and a change of course is necessary. This got him more power and with that power he executed on his belief system and had a lousy 2015 season. Know what you believe is important.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2015

Lore’s biggest promise is that Jet members will enjoy prices “10 to 15 percent below the lowest prices online,” a bold pitch in today’s hyper-competitive retail landscape. Of course, while these comparisons might be useful to industry observers, their influence on individual consumers is likely to be limited.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In 2015, the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals were held in Marrakesh, Morocco. Our civic center actually had to upgrade their broadband because we needed a really good Wi-Fi with the competition being done on computers. ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals 2017.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. In 2015 in the US there were $77 billion written into startup tech companies. ” Of course life is more complicated. So prices start dropping. What hogwash.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

And as I’ve written about before – building a personal brand is extremely important in today’s competitive job market. Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 31, 2015. I know it will be hard for you to believe in 2015 but in 2006 Palo Alto (where I lived) was kind of dead. Jason charted his own course though.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2015

These people are the ultimate chess players in the game of startups, always looking to be two or three moves ahead of the competition. Of course, understanding your type and tailoring your plan is still no guarantee of success. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/10/2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Of course, if the campaign does not meet or exceed the funding objective, you get nothing. Many successful crowdfunding campaigns, just like many startups funded by angels and VCs, fail miserably due to normal business challenges, including inventory buildup, marketing, competition, and customer support. Startup revenues come later.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Of course, if the campaign does not meet or exceed the funding objective, you get nothing. Many successful crowdfunding campaigns, just like many startups funded by angels and VCs, fail miserably due to normal business challenges, including inventory buildup, marketing, competition, and customer support. Startup revenues come later.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In reality, crowdfunding has become a major startup funding vehicle, with an estimated contribution of $30 billion in 2015, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Of course, if the campaign does not meet or exceed the funding objective, you get nothing. Don’t assume that any money collected from a winning campaign will go into your pocket.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate. billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). Others are skeptical, “Ha!

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