Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

They are painfully aware that tenure on the list of S&P companies is shrinking – from thirty-three years back in 1964, down to twenty-four in 2016, and predicted to be just twelve by 2027. It starts with a mindset that disrupting your business regularly is necessary, before your competition and new startups do it to you.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. So we took a breather to build our software and processes before launching. Building a Large Software Lead. We built warehouse management processes and software.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

For the cybersecurity industry, 2016 is shaping up to be the year of alliances. It’s an interesting tactic that seems unusual in a competitive business environment, but makes sense when considering the constantly expanding sea of cyber threats—and solutions—through which organizations must wade.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

Developed by Tencent and published by Blizzard, in which Tencent owns a minority stake, in September, Call of Duty: Mobile had a spectacular start, recording more worldwide downloads in a single quarter than any mobile game except Pokémon GO, which saw its peak in Q3 2016, according to app analytics company Sensor Tower.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Corporate entities operate under strict competitive and accounting rules. Even with these extra challenges, the IBM PC was developed and delivered in eighteen months – at that time faster than any other mixed hardware and software product in IBM’s history. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/24/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2016

Change competitive positioning and pricing to improve traction. Sometimes a startup has to pivot to a new technology to stay competitive or improve margins. It can be extremely valuable to pivot the focus of your new software technology tool from productivity to compliance. Are you still hesitating?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

If your team has a depth of expertise in software, that won’t help you get funding for a new hardware solution. Startup leaders have to be relentlessly resourceful in overcoming obstacles and competition. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 06/10/2016. Focus on prior results, not titles.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. Los Angeles-based Fuel50 (www.fuel50.com) What is Fuel50? versus New Zealand?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

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. New funds have been raised dedicated to this segment. What we’ve also seen is the increase in M&A. In general, M&A is a natural part of the IT security market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Growth hackers are the marketing equivalent of clever software hackers and are highly respected by investors. The new entrepreneurial age is here, but you can’t be competitive if you don’t speak the language. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 03/04/2016. Acquihire” a startup.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A cybersecurity report by Ponemon Institute, in association with Keeper Security, found that in the 12 months leading up to June 2016, 55 percent of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) experienced a cyber attack, while 50 percent encountered data breaches involving customer and employee information.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

By 2016, app downloads are estimated to reach 44 billion and app-to-person messaging is seen to overtake text messaging. The competition has gone mobile and by the looks of it, it will probably stay there for a long time. Just one year after their respective launches, Apple and Google exceeded one billion app downloads.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

Those were some of the topics of a question-and-answer panel held at Xconomy’s Robo Madness West 2016 conference last month. This is an example of AI that can understand humans, in both competitive and supportive roles. What are the risks and ethics around AI systems? Begole : What is the future of autonomous defense systems?

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