Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

These days, I’m hearing more and more that Location-Based Services (LBS) are transforming the smartphone Industry, but only for consumers. 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.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

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. We worked on Beatshare at Chapman, where there was a business plan competition, which we won. How did you two connect?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The objective is not to delay payments, but to avoid the expense or capital payment altogether, by working in house, bartering for services or just doing without. Resist the temptation to be defensive, and don’t assume you are somehow smarter than the competition. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/06/2015.

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

Founded by Shervin Pishevar, along with Brogan BamBrogan and Josh Giegel, Hyperloop One made its entrance into the Hyperloop market on February 2015 with a Forbes article and an announcement of $11.1 The SpaceX competition succeeded in opening up the Hyperloop market to new and innovative companies. Hardt Global Mobility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Confirm that your product or service solves the problem. Your business model can be a better sustainable competitive advantage than your product features, or it can be your biggest risk exposure. Too many of the business plans I see are heavy on competitive product features, but light on business model details and innovations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Yet many entrepreneurs rely on expensive outside services and outside money, rather than do the networking for a co-founder or two who have the right skills to work for equity. They forget that the product or service makes the brand, not the environment. Organic growth at this stage may be non-competitive.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Sustainable competitive advantage. Product distribution or service delivery. 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.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

These large mobile carriers have audiences, but something they dont have content services to attract and retain subscribers to a mobile network. We build products and services tied to mobile carriers. We have a property called Stadium Sports, where we are working with several new leagues to launch services. I have a Ph.D.

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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.

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MARCH 31, 2015

As a result of the ruling, companies that provide internet services will no longer be allowed to do the following: slow down file-sharing websites. Without the FCC’s ruling, companies such as this one could face restrictions and unfair competition from internet providers. This Act was previously applied to phone companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2015

Companies can use this strategy to improve their profitability and competitive advantage. More and more customers choose a company based on their perceptions about the good that they do, as well as their price and service. Doing good opens the door to a broader customer base.

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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. with demands for new products and services. The result is that every startup company now needs to consider every aspect of management, sales and service on a global basis. Don’t try to do it all at once.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2015

Competitor positioning and sustainable competitive advantage. It requires the same level of understanding of your business that you probably have already put into developing your product or service, over a period of months. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/29/2015.

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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. with demands for new products and services. The result is that every startup company now needs to consider every aspect of management, sales and service on a global basis. Don’t try to do it all at once.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2015

Passionate entrepreneurs tend to talk on and on about their disruptive technology, their intent to change the world and free services, but if a business can’t provide quantifiable value to real customers, the dream will likely turn into a nightmare. Your second sentence should acknowledge competition, but highlight your added value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

One of the most popular and least successful models I see in new business plans for startups is the so-called Facebook model, providing free services to users while collecting revenue from ads to offset costs and grow the business. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/1/2015.

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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. with demands for new products and services. The result is that every startup company now needs to consider every aspect of management, sales and service on a global basis. Don’t try to do it all at once.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In fact, nearly one-third of the respondents in a recent Cisco survey reported that the primary purpose of cybersecurity is to be a growth enabler, while another 44 percent consider cybersecurity a competitive advantage. This couldn’t be further from the truth.

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JUNE 22, 2015

PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. Although the carriers made a lot of money initially by selling dial-up Internet services, customers never took their software because, well, it sucked. The Mother of All Exclusivity Agreements – the iPhone Wouldn’t Exist . Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

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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. Facebook has Anthology, a service that connects business with media partners to help them produce quality videos to promote their brands online. According to emarketer.com , Facebook earns 65.5 That was $15.5

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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.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

I came on full-time with Startup Junkie in 2015, and haven’t looked back! The question that we most frequently ask ourselves is “how can we make our services free to the entrepreneurs, and better than if they would have to pay for them?” Hunt – who at the time, had no real regional competitive advantage.

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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. Jet plans to spend up to $300 million on the service in the next five years. However, Jet faces considerable competition: Amazon generated $23.18

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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.

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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?

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

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

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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. Empowerment.

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