socalTECH

JULY 25, 2016

Carlsbad-based satellite broadband provider ViaSat has scored a high profile customer win, saying this morning that it will be providing in-flight Internet and connectivity services to Air Force One , along with other aircraft for senior leaders of the U.S. Government.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2018

We’ll work with customers and partners to minimize disruption, and there will be no immediate impacts to their Webpass service,” according to the statement. “We We continue to see strong subscriber response across the rest of the Webpass portfolio, including successful launches in Denver and Seattle in 2017.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2017

With the advent of the Internet, social media, and instant communication via texting, customer expectations for service, as part of their entire customer experience, have changed. They expect you to be there, to know their history as a customer, and to treat them with priority and respect.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

by 15 million users since 2017, as young people ages 12 to 17 migrate to Snapchat and Instagram. Engagement occurs when customers and stakeholders become participants by sharing ideas with you, or talking to their friends about you, rather than merely viewing what you publish. That won’t build any competitive advantage.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Given the competition coming into the market, it’s no wonder that Wrench is raising additional capital to expand its footprint into new markets. Wrench raised $4 million in its first round of financing, which TechCrunch covered back in 2017. It’s a model that’s attracted some competitors with big backing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Here are some key strategies that I recommend to every worker today: Develop and highlight your competitive differentiation. Today, customers and future managers put a higher value on relationships, and expect to know you from industry conferences, social media, or recommendations from peers. Walk away from a bad role or customer.

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StartUp Beat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

2017 has already witnessed a load of successful and exciting conferences, including World Domination Summit, Startup+Fest and CEO Space. It’s a competition where entrepreneurs take the stage and proceed to pitch their startup ideas and their visions for the future. Since Disrupt, we sign up about 5000 new customers a day.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Old views of change rates are no longer competitive. Count the number of new projects, time and resources required to implement, and measure the return in revenue, customer satisfaction, or cost savings. Create a non-online memorable customer experience. Build a community with face-to-face between customers.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals 2017. ICPC World Finals 2017, held in Rapid City. In 2017, it was in Rapid City, South Dakota. It was always sort of shocking to people, even on a national level, when they would hear [that Rapid City was hosting ICPC 2017],” Jensen said. “And

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Frame the way you want to change the world, and make it about the customer. Make sure your measurements are customer-oriented, as well as focused on internal processes. Design your invisible competitive advantage. What has your business done lately to excite your existing customers and keep them loyal?

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

“We want to inspire, but we also want to be realistic and show beauty in real life,” Glossier founder and CEO Emily Weiss said in a 2017 interview with Inc, just as the brand had reached what Weiss herself described as “cult status.” billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

Unfortunately, often the result is potential customers who are confused, the limited resources of your business are spread too thin, and customers and investors look elsewhere for a better fit. Customers want a solution from you, not many. Realistically characterize the competition. Eliminating world hunger is too broad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

by 15 million users since 2017, as young people ages 12 to 17 migrate to Snapchat and Instagram. Engagement occurs when customers and stakeholders become participants by sharing ideas with you, or talking to their friends about you, rather than merely viewing what you publish. That won’t build any competitive advantage.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2018

Being one small company amongst the sea of thousands of startups vying for customers, capital, and talent, the way to get noticed above the crowd, connect with that next big partner, and raise some capital is to throw your hat in the ring to compete at Startup of the Year. A Strong Alumni Network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Every opportunity is global, but so is the competition. Evolving customer expectations and technology are the norm, forcing every company, from startups to large enterprises, to innovate quickly, despite their fear of change, uncertainty, and doubt. Get in sync with customers by frequent customer interaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

I’m sure you understand that every new business starts with passion, and maybe even some deep domain experience, to fully appreciate a painful market need, with a large and growing set of customers with money for your solution. Never under-estimate or ignore the competition. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/06/2017.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2019

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. Significant differences will confuse your customers, and open the door to imitators and scam artists. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2017

In fact, I can condense the sum of my business experiences into eight key disciplines: Start with a total and ongoing customer focus. Don’t assume anything until you have done market research and listened to real customers. Then assume the customers will change over time, so never stop listening.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Since this document is outward facing, it is important to keep the terminology and tone consistent with that of your customer set, investors, and business partners. Opportunity segmentation and competitive environment. Marketing, sales, and customer experience. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2017

Chowdhury is one of the world’s leading management consultants, and he argues that accountability is only one part of a real caring culture that must be built and maintained to achieve a sustainable competitive difference. Is what you are about to do the best long-term solution for the customer, or merely an expedient?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2017

In the heat of scaling the business, it’s tempting to skip the cost and time of finding qualified job candidates, and enlist those close at hand, without paying them a competitive wage for the hard work and commitment you need. Focus on products and customers, and trust your accountant. Work hard, but work smart.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2017

In addition, today’s customers judge a company by perceived people relationships through social media, phone conversations, and sales experiences. Customers demand more engagement and flexibility. People-centric leaders drive ownership and engagement down to their customer-facing team members. What goes around, comes around.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Those technologies allow us to scale and offer a superior product for customers. 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. Who are your core customers?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

founded in summer of 2017. That makes it difficult to figure out what it costs to acquire a customer, and what a customer is worth. Dan LeBlanc: I used to run customer analytics for a brand called ProFlowers. Their customers are starting brands, and using their e-commerce platform to really accelerate and grow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2017

As an advisor to many new businesses, I see a host of advantages for every new business by being socially responsible today: Expands the potential customer target market size. Social contribution and sustainability are features that appeal to a whole new class of customers for any solution. Incents customers to pay a premium price.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2017

I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. It’s time to push decision making down into the organization –insisting that the people closest to the customer and the markets learn and make the decisions. Define customer value as the only path to business value.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Tim O'Neal: Kazhm was founded in 2017. With all the complexity of the IT environment, how do you convince customers to add one more piece into this puzzle? The competitive advantages of doing this are very exciting, and we get a powerful response from both audiences. Explain what Kazuhm does?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Unfortunately, in this age of vacillating customer trends and a wealth of new competitors scratching and clawing for a piece of the action, long-term growth requires constant focus. The new strategy here is to focus on unmet new customer needs, rather than enhancing the offering you have – product, price, promotion, and place (4Ps).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I’m certainly not a fan of customer rip-offs, but even non-profits have to be cash-flow positive, or have deep pockets, to help anyone for long. It’s naïve to think you can sell below costs, and make it up by attracting more customers. The challenge is to get the first million customers, before advertisers will sign up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2018

In my experience with technical entrepreneurs, they work hard on creating an innovative and elegant solution, and assume that customers will flock to them (“if we build it, they will come”). The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and the perfect customer segment. Make every pilot customer commit to be a reference.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2017

Your concept has to be understood by customers and investors in 30 seconds or less, and everyone needs to immediately see how awesome it would be, or that they would be nuts not to have it. I’m looking for the “hook” right up front, or I lose interest quickly, just like every customer and investor these days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

If it’s not an order of magnitude better or cheaper, customers usually conclude that the risk and cost of change are simply not worth the potential payback over what they have today. Look at competition for the numbers to beat, but in the consumer space, it usually takes millions to be the dominant player.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2017

in 2017, as young people ages 12 to 17 migrate to Snapchat and Instagram. Engagement occurs when customers and stakeholders become participants by sharing ideas with you, or talking to their friends about you, rather than merely viewing what you publish. That won’t build any competitive advantage. Where did your friends go?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Incidentally, if you never thought of yourself as being an A-Player employee, you probably will struggle even more in the competitive entrepreneur world. Every business purpose must be customer-centric and even altruistic. In this highly competitive world, no growth means falling behind, as a business or in your career.

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Entrepreneur Customer Custom Competition 54

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2017

Success in today’s rapidly changing and highly competitive business environment requires a total alignment between the needs of each business function and the priorities of all team members. Failed strategies erode your competitive position. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/09/2017.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2017

We all face pressure in our lives, but there’s nothing like that of an entrepreneur facing customer crises and the competitive challenges of a new business. Thus, here is my own reframing of the authors generalized rules into some specifics for an entrepreneur or business leader: Reframe competitive threats to opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2017

The bad news is we have to think like a business, with all the implications of branding, finding customers, and competitors. For more complex or creative projects, where required hours to complete the work are less predictable, your experience, work ethic, and productivity are competitive advantages. Know your competitive value.

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