Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

In one industry I know well, the dominant player with 22% market share was acquired by one of the largest companies in the technology world. What if you had abandoned that market, reallocated your resources, and focused instead upon other non–competitive geographical or industry segments? How could you compete with the gorilla?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2022

Once your business is running and sustainable , everyone these days expects it to grow, as an indication of long-term health and competitiveness. Everyone is looking for that magic strategy that will keep them growing, even during market and company changes. Improve reaction time to competitive situations.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

From lockdown in her Northern Italy home, Cevolini shared perspective on the future of motorcycling, acquisition offers and plans to recharge her company when the COVID-19 crisis subsides. The venture is also one of the few e-motorcycle companies drawing engineering tips from competition. MotoE Worldcup racing, Image Credits: Energica.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 10, 2022

Amazon could substantially expand their dominance over the ecommerce market, as the Seattle-based tech giant has announced the acquisition of Veeqo, a UK-based ecommerce startup. Everyone knows that Amazon has been pretty acquisition happy over the last few years. What does this mean for the ecommerce market?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

He is very hands-on and helpful – especially for any company looking into customer acquisition. o CPM model gave him control over the information in the acquisition cycle so he focused on that. - o Put a timeframe/money – competition in the picture. He told them it was now or never.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

Image via Pixabay Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Ric Dragon, an expert in online marketing, in his classic book. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2008

According to Eric Brandt, Senior Vice President and CFO of the firm on a call Monday, it is looking for acquisitions as opportunities arise. On the conference call, Brandt said that the situation is unique today, saying "There are opportunities in the market, particularly going into a down cycle. READ MORE>>

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2023

Expand the market for both. Typically, there are market opportunities that neither of your core competencies can win alone. Where your competitor isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Nearly one year after DNA sequencing machine maker Illumina announced plans to acquire smaller rival Pacific Biosciences , antitrust regulators in the UK say the merger could stifle competition in the region and reduce industry innovation. The Competition and Markets Authority has been eying the proposed $1.2

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2021

Overall, Klarna is live in 20 markets, has more than 90 million global active users and more than 2 million transactions a day conducted on its platform. Klarna has entered six new markets this year alone, including France and New Zealand, where it just launched this week. in markets such as New York and Los Angeles.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 16, 2022

We can invent lots of metrics to measure progress for a leader, including revenue, profit, employee satisfaction, cost containment, percentage of available market, and more. But there is one overwhelming method of appraising the effectiveness of a business leader. What is your leadership end game goal?

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Unlike a lot of grants on this list, the competition is open to all US small businesses, as long as they have fewer than 99 employees, have been operating for at least six months, and have a FedEx business account that's been open before September 1, 2023. It's competitive though – last year 18,000 applicants competed for only 12 slots.

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socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2014

near real-time automated intelligence gathering systems that scour public and private data sources like websites, blogs, social media and email to unearth information businesses can use for competitive advantage. Bitvore, led by Jeff Curie, said that it has developed a.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2010

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. New management skills. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should select only social media for marketing, or stick with digital media, or just count on traditional media. None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other. Social media as a marketing tool is here to stay, and is now widely accepted.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. Who do you view as your biggest competition?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2020

Expand the market for both. Typically, there are market opportunities that neither of your core competencies can win alone. Where your competitor isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. Let market response dictate a later split, merger, or acquisition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should select only social media for marketing, or stick with digital media, or just count on traditional media. None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other. Social media as a marketing tool is here to stay, and is now widely accepted.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 14, 2010

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 -- How Savvy Companies Leverage Brand, Technology and IP Licensing to Leap Ahead of The Competition. See [link] (more).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The next thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. Re-live that moment of inspiration that resulted in an innovative design and implementation for your product, and is now providing you with a sustainable competitive advantage. Even with the perfect product, your customers won’t even know you exist without marketing.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. Did the eyeballs suddenly disappear? But, when the bubble burst in 2000, most of us quickly grew up. Revenue experiments (and failures).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

As a result, we shared in capturing a new high-end market, without major new marketing or development. Here is a summary of each: Complementary strengths allows extended market penetration. It’s very unusual for two competitors to have exactly the same strengths – in development, marketing, distribution, or customer support.

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2019

Is one of the bigger biopharma acquisitions of the year in trouble? The US Federal Trade Commission wants yet more information about the buyout, and overseas, the UK Competition and Markets Authority opened a separate investigation. This past week, antitrust regulators once again delayed Roche’s planned $4.8

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 19, 2015

Computers and the Internet have now brought in a new era that relies on data to make profitable business decisions in the competitive environment. Below is a full explanation of how small businesses can leverage technology to earn a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Cloud Services. Images via Shutterstock.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Calabasas-based audio processing technology firm DTS is expanding into the Internet-connected, whole home audio market today, saying that it has released an Android-based, whole home audio system. The new system looks to be direct competition for Santa Barbara-based Sonos, and its own wireless, whole home audio systems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2020

Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. Re-live that moment of inspiration that resulted in an innovative design and implementation for your product, and is now providing you with a sustainable competitive advantage. Even with the perfect product, your customers won’t even know you exist without marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2020

I’m not talking about just making incremental improvements in their products and processes, but more fundamental changes to the business model, such as the following: Announce a new market launch that fits your core competency. You didn’t wait until a new market was totally proven before entering. Remember when you were a startup?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. If you hire truly talented people you end up definitionally with a lot of competitive peers who will inevitably jockey for resources and control. Marketing of course often feels the opposite.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

As an example, I'm working with two sets of founders who are both going to be dealing with Getting Started with a Two-Sided Market Business - they are variants of two sided markets, but have similar characteristics. My suggestion would be to not necessarily target Groupon itself, but more of the competitors and acquisitions.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Santa Monica-based Super League Gaming , which operates its own e-sports competition site and community, is headed for the public markets, hoping to raise as much as $31.36M for the company, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. Super League Gaming is led by President and CEO Ann Hand. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 13, 2016

In one industry I know well, the dominant player with 22% market share was acquired by one of the largest companies in the technology world. Forgotten about selected vertical markets within the niche? There’s an example of avoiding the encounter and losing the lead position when an opportunity to compete surfaces unexpectedly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2020

According to TheStreet , US IPO market results in Q2 2020 posted a strong bounce-back from Q1 with 58 IPOs, after a slow start due to the Covid19 pandemic. You better have lined up a major international expansion, some major acquisition candidates, or a wealth of unfilled orders. Market volatility usually hits public companies first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. It’s only been in the last decade or two, that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars (unicorn status), while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2012

We thought it would be insightful for our readerswho are usually looking to get acquired by other companieson what the thought process of those large companies making those acquisitions are. For a company like yours, what goes into your acquisition strategy and what thoughts went behind the Anue acquisition?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In this age of constant market evolution and new technology, there is no such thing as a static business that is self-sustaining. Populating new domains to sustain your market. For example, Swatch was able through marketing to define their watches as fashion accessories, as well as timepieces, greatly expanding their segment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. It’s only been in the last decade or two, that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars (unicorn status), while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users.

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