Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

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. Coopetition,” or strategic cooperation with a competitor is another angle. Sponsorships and advertising. Lead generation.

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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. The total proceeds raised in Q2 2016 from IPOs diminished by three-quarters compared to Q2 2015. In fact, IPOs are down again this year, with just 31 companies going public in the U.S. in the first five months.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. However, the higher you get within an organization in the sale (and the larger the deal) executives are often looking to “win in the market,” which means growing revenue faster, offering products or services at a lower cost or offering features that their competitors can’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2015

Skip the sales pitch and avoid preaching. Your second sentence should acknowledge competition, but highlight your added value. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/22/2015. It’s good to speak with passion and conviction, but only quantified facts make a business. Build up for the punch line at the end.

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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. Sales and distribution channel activity will be analyzed, as well as cost of customer acquisition, to make an independent assessment of your financial projections.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Sales of both drugs, ivacaftor (Kalydeco) and the combo pill ivacaftor-lumacaftor (Orkambi), reached almost $1 billion in 2015 and are growing. But the drugs aren’t cures, and competition looms. Telaprevir sales rocketed to nearly $1 billion in the first six months, at the time the fastest drug launch ever.

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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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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

I think we're seeing our growth finally is starting to be exponential, while back in 2015 and 2016 we found we needed to have some patience. Plus, we're really ramping up our client success team and sales team to meet the demand in the U.S. Some of the early adopters we have have been such logos as MasterCard, eBay, and Indeed.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2016

billion in 2015 alone. The way to get ahead of the competition is to look at what they’re doing right and do it better. Social networking continues to be a superior force in marketing, especially Facebook. According to emarketer.com , Facebook earns 65.5 percent of all social network ad spending worldwide. That was $15.5

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

billion in December 2014, it counted on blockbuster sales of Cubist’s skin-infection antibiotic daptomycin (Cubicin) for years. 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

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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. The plan is to scale up quickly enough to reach 15 million members and $20 billion in revenue from merchandise sales by 2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. This got him more power and with that power he executed on his belief system and had a lousy 2015 season. We could all do better – I’m sure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Image via Pixabay Making more sales quickly today is no longer about selling. They don’t want to be pushed into a sale, but they love to be pulled in by what is important to them. They don’t want to be pushed into a sale, but they love to be pulled in by what is important to them. Make every sale a win-win outcome.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Fun Fact: Preventing spreadsheet abuse since 2015 – one company at a time. He was fortunate enough to attend three competitions: Atlanta, Sydney and Athens. Sales Huddle Group. A bundle of software services for SMBs to manage their inventory, accounting, manufacturing, and purchasing. AngelList: [link]. From: Walnut, CA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Long-term value propositions to society, or paradigm shifts in technology, generate interest but don’t close sales in the time frame your startup needs to survive and prosper. Sustainable competitive advantage. Investors look for specifics on sales channels, marketing collateral, social media initiatives and customer incentives.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

A small advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels. Your business model can be a better sustainable competitive advantage than your product features, or it can be your biggest risk exposure.

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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. Easier access to international markets is creating limitless sales opportunities on a worldwide basis. However, to gain a true competitive edge, you still need to implement effective solutions first at the local level.

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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. Easier access to international markets is creating limitless sales opportunities on a worldwide basis. However, to gain a true competitive edge, you still need to implement effective solutions first at the local level.

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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. Easier access to international markets is creating limitless sales opportunities on a worldwide basis. However, to gain a true competitive edge, you still need to implement effective solutions first at the local level.

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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. We shared information about building sales teams.

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