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7 Plan Elements That Separate Businesses From Hobbies

Startup Professionals Musings

Opportunity segmentation and competitive environment. List key competitors and alternatives, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantages, such as patents and trademarks. List key competitors and alternatives, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantages, such as patents and trademarks.

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. When should you start a company?

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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

socalTECH

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. We automatically add tracking and point those product references to e-commerce merchants.

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Here’s a 10-Tip Action Plan for Optimizing Performance When You Have ADD

Both Sides of the Table

Turning the Urgency Addiction into a Competitive Asset. And the week we finished our 2016 Summit, Stuart had already survey attendees for feedback, completed an analysis of what worked and what didn’t and identified the dates for our 2017 Summit. These are known symptoms of people with ADD. I would have started in June.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. I believe this use of cryptocurrency will develop and flourish long after the dust settles from the hype and crash of cryptocurrencies that we’re experiencing in 2017. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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