Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2015

Include your sustainable competitive advantage. Patents or other intellectual property are a real competitive advantage for a startup, but first to market and working harder are not sustainable. If you sell for half the price of a competitor, but you lose money on each item, it’s hard to make it up in volume.

Summary

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Sustainable competitive advantage. Validated pricing and a sufficient revenue stream. Pricing needs to be set before rollout, based on the value delivered and the competition; pricing also needs to be tested with real customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/18/2015.

Technical Review

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

The middle and above-middle class population of China will grow from 172 million in 2010 to 314 million in 2015. An international brand will command higher prices and additional customer demand. However, to gain a true competitive edge, you still need to implement effective solutions first at the local level. Marty Zwilling.

Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

The middle and above-middle class population of China will grow from 172 million in 2010 to 314 million in 2015. An international brand will command higher prices and additional customer demand. However, to gain a true competitive edge, you still need to implement effective solutions first at the local level. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The middle and above-middle class population of China will grow from 172 million in 2010 to 314 million by 2015. An international brand will command higher prices and additional customer demand. However, to gain a true competitive edge, you still need to implement effective solutions first at the local level. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Competitor positioning and sustainable competitive advantage. Partnerships, distribution channels and pricing models should be included. “If Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/29/2015. Investors will impatiently expect a winning business model, customer segment definitions and volume projections.

Product

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

After I sold my last company, Shift, in May of 2015, I took some time off to look for the next thing to do. It seem that now, versus a few years ago, it's a lot more competitive to try to get out and acquire a user profitably for an app. What was appealing to you about the mobile app area? We have a huge acquisition pipeline.

Media

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. Although larger VC firms routinely invest in competitive offerings, it is less prudent for a small firm to do so, as it can be difficult to avoid inadvertent information transfers within an intimate partnership.

Venture Capital

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. …But LPs Have Been Putting Out More Money Than They Are Getting Back.

Venture Capital

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

A smart investor will take an independent final reading in the market on barriers to entry, active competition, demographics, and price sensitivity. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 1/9/2015. Traction in the marketplace. business due diligence entrepreneur investors startups'

Technical Review

Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

In 2015, Cybersecurity startups saw 332 funding deals with investments hitting the highest ever at $3.8 For 2015, there were 133 information security M&A deals, according to 451 Research’s Tech M&A Outlook 2016. Symantec Forces the Industry to Stay Competitive. billion (235 percent growth over 5 years).

Symantec

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

You simply negotiate a fixed price per day for displaying the ad on your site, which advertisers see as cost per day (CPD), independent of the ad’s visibility or your visitor response. 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.

Advertising

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Trusted advisor connections and personal relationships often outweigh price and feature comparisons. This includes recognizing that you have competition, and using the competitor offering to highlight your advantages. It’s never a good thing to denigrate your competition. Selling to the wrong profile loses sales.

Customer

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2016

The constant media coverage of the aberrant unicorn valuations has caused otherwise level-headed entrepreneurs to expect investors to participate at prices which are detached from their startups’ fundamentals. Find A Partner Not A Banker. At Rincon Venture Partners , we continue to be disciplined, seed-stage investors.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

She can anticipate reactions to price increases or product changes by customers and she can sustain competitive challenges because she knows the customer will stick by her. This got him more power and with that power he executed on his belief system and had a lousy 2015 season. Team Building.

Startup

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing. We bought our first company in 2017 to create this, and we rolled up a few companies to bring this vision to life.

Content

Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

The only remaining daptomycin patent will expire in June, clearing the way for generic competition years earlier than expected. AstraZeneca got the drug when it bought ZS Pharma in late 2015 for $2.7 The drug has a list price of $69,350 per patient, per year. —Jazz Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: JAZZ ) agreed to pay $1.5

San Diego

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. On July 21, Jet’s launch day, Profitero conducted a study to evaluate Jet’s lowest-price promise. same UPC, brand, and size) across seven categories.

Pricing

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Premium window treatments and home decor basics at an accessible price. Premium window treatments and home decor basics at an accessible price. Fun Fact: Preventing spreadsheet abuse since 2015 – one company at a time. He was fortunate enough to attend three competitions: Atlanta, Sydney and Athens. AngelList: [link].

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies. It was a way to make it hard for your competition to compete. Ask Xi or Putin how that’s going for them.

Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

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. Here’s how he did it. Some background.

SaaS

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015. As I was thinking about how I feel about the movie I Tweeted out that immediate success brings out a loneliness that few have empathy for. jordandhudson Very heavy. But needed to be seen. Entrepreneurs could learn about loneliness of success: nobody talks about. Of course that’s true.

Press

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Paradigm-shift solutions have no competition." The real competition to a new paradigm is the old paradigm. The first airplane faced major competition from trains and automobiles. If there is no competition, investors see no market, meaning no customers, slow growth and big marketing costs.

Technical Review

Xconomy

OCTOBER 28, 2016

THIS WEEK IN DRUG PRICING…. —A coalition of investors pressed drug makers to justify price increases. The group filed shareholder resolutions with 11 companies and cited a Kaiser Family Foundation poll that cited Americans’ concerns over drug prices. billion last year.

Pricing