TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

“This could also be due to changes in the competitive landscape … and there may be changes with First Round Capital itself,” says one investor. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020. And its new partners are clearly angling to make names for themselves. “KP Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Competitive (Athlete: skier & rowed at Princeton, hates losing at everything she does). Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). Investment experience (5 years a VC at Battery Ventures).

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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).

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Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2018

Being a part of the SOTY alumni lasts well beyond the pitch competition. One of our advisors heard about the Startup of the Year competition and thought we should consider pitching. The Startup of the Year competition has always recognized that great ideas and talent live everywhere – not just the coasts. APPLY HERE.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2015

As a model, think high-quality marketing collateral, with text and graphics in columns and sidebars, but focused on the value of your business, rather than selling your product. Include your sustainable competitive advantage. Professional investors look for the right people more than the right product.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Once shoppers experienced the ease of ordering online, the inevitable subsequent challenge was to put the products into their hands quickly enough to encourage continued use of e-commerce for making purchases. Smaller retailers have learned ways to compete with these expectations and to price their products and shipping rates strategically.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

They don’t realize that knocking competitors is assessed as a weakness and denying that you have any competition suggests there is no market for your solution. When comparing competition, don’t use fuzzy terms such as improved usability, faster, less expensive and more productive. Use real case studies and customer feedback.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

This allowed the curriculum to efficiently find its product / market fit. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2015

A sense of urgency won’t save a bad idea or the wrong team, but the good news is that it will fail faster, allowing people to move on quickly to more productive opportunities. It does mean a proactive and ever-vigilant plan to keep moving forward with the market and stay ahead of competition, even if you must make your own products obsolete.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

We worked on Beatshare at Chapman, where there was a business plan competition, which we won. From there, we went on to a national competition, California Dreamin, which had over 200 entrants from multiple universities, with undergrad, graduate, and postgraduates from all around the country for three days, and we got second place.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Segments that come to mind include product tracking, navigation, safety, security, local business search, and payments. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

They forget that the product or service makes the brand, not the environment. Most startups need to pivot at least once, so you need a limited rollout territory with a minimum viable product to keep the costs of corrections in line. Organic growth at this stage may be non-competitive. A desire to roll out on a massive scale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

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.” Early hype actually should precede the final product, and consists of proof-of-concept stories, media events and industry exposure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2016

From an insider perspective, 37 percent of CFOs now see the required target as a significant innovation every one-to-three years, according to the results of a 2015 IMA innovation survey. People pay for a great user experience, in finding the right product, buying it, using it, and getting support.

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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

JUNE 7, 2015

I can think of at least five ways that this benefits the business, as well as customers: Products in a purpose culture more readily sell at a premium price. Companies can use this strategy to improve their profitability and competitive advantage. Companies with a purpose culture have more productive teams.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2016

mPulse was formed in April of 2015, as a spinoff of a company called mobileStorm, which has been in mobile marketing and communications for the last fifteen years. Several years ago, I was the COO for Humana's Health and Productivity business. It's a highly competitive market. That will drive the next products that we roll out.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

A large bank started using us, with 18,000 employees in Australia, and the next thing we new we were delivering the product to the the U.S. We've been flirting with profitability all year, and are approaching $3M in ARR, but we also want to scale and build up our business, our product acceleration, and continue our client success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2015

Yet the 2015 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. She outlines the potential benefits of “workships” (work relationships) evolving into friendships and romances as follows: Improve communication and productivity. Can be a competitive advantage. Competition over salary, promotions, and position.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

Segments mentioned include product tracking, navigation, safety, security, local business search, and payments. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2011

At any rate, here is my summary of the top ten from my experience with hundreds of elevator pitches, business plans, and executive presentations: “Our product is truly disruptive technology.” If your product really represents a paradigm shift, you probably haven’t figured out yet what problem it solves.

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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. Ship a minimum viable product quickly, test the market and iterate.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

If one entered between 2009-2015 he or she is no doubt in the “hazard” phase where one need to be careful about thinking he know more about the industry than perhaps he do. With perfect information and too much competition you pay up or they walk right down the street and get it from somebody else.” Same as I felt.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Apply the same high bar to product quality, employee satisfaction, social responsibilities and customer service. 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. Set the bar high on standards.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We build products and services tied to mobile carriers. Those technologies allow us to scale and offer a superior product for customers. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. That was a big transition, at first, to try to create new products and services that are enjoyed by people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2015

Skip the fuzzy terms, such as nice to have and easier to use in favor of specifics, such as costs 50 percent less or increases productivity by 100 percent. Your second sentence should acknowledge competition, but highlight your added value. Smart investors invest in people, even more than a great product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

The goal is for your visitor to be redirected to the site or product being advertised. Advertisers see it as a method of shifting the risk on untested ads or products to you, so do your homework. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/1/2015. For the advertiser, this is the cost-per-click (CPC) model.

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StartUp Beat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

shouts, the conference maintains a theme that is much like Burning Man, and coincidently the event’s 2015 iteration did in fact hold a Burning Man festival. . It’s a competition where entrepreneurs take the stage and proceed to pitch their startup ideas and their visions for the future. Disrupt SF ( Sep 18-20).

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

With so many smart technology devices and users— six billion Internet of Things (IoT) connections in 2015—we’ve long surpassed the adoption phase. Now, the focus has shifted to refining and improving features to help products stand out from the competition, especially in the realm of security. Creating a Bubble.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 1/9/2015. Status of the solution.

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Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015. As an industry we need to pay attention to those who are struggling as they build their startups and make sure we pay as much attention to the mental stresses of the job as we do to the business challenges like shipping product, hiring staff and raising money. jordandhudson Very heavy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. No carrier in their right mind wanted to cede control of the software but Apple was willing to offer its products exclusive through one carrier in exchange for not having any carrier software on the device. The Mother of All Exclusivity Agreements – the iPhone Wouldn’t Exist .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2015

People making a request may not understand your budget limitations, current workload, or competitive pressures. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 1/2/2015. Rejection without giving a context implies an unreasonable request or a problem with the requestor. Say yes to the person and no to the task.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

This takes too much time in our super-competitive environment, and the result of a total buy-in is usually a watered-down version of the original decision or action they intended. As a result, productivity suffers, employee morale decreases, and targeted results are missed. Marty Zwilling Published on IvyExec.com on 11/27/2015.

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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. Profitero looked at 16,028 exactly-matching products (i.e., In household products, Jet beat Amazon’s prices by 11% and Walmart’s by 7%.

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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 FDA also made regulatory decisions that cast a pall on recent buyouts. and Europe later this year.

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Xconomy

JULY 6, 2016

National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins (pictured) and FDA commissioner Rob Califf spoke on a call this afternoon to update the Precision Medicine Initiative, or PMI, which President Obama unveiled in early 2015. “In medicine, ‘one size fits all’ is often far from an optimal strategy,” Collins said.

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