Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2014

Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. That says you are competitive today, have a real barrier to entry, and the potential to remain ahead of the competition for a long time.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. But then Facebook became a more crowded platform, and the same happened with Google: more advertisers, higher CPM and a more competitive environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2017

Outbehave Your Competition to Create Customers for Life ,” offers eight key principles for defining and managing the experience to keep it consistent and profitable: Keep every employee on stage, delivering an experience. They have to out-behave and outperform your competition. Gregg Lederman, in his classic book, “ ENGAGED!:

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2018

Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. That says you are competitive today, have a real barrier to entry, and the potential to remain ahead of the competition for a long time.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2011

We've only been advertising for about 90 days or so, as we have been in beta for a year making sure everything is working. That's a huge competitive advantage in money remittance. We've tapped lots of world class experts, inside and outside the company, to develop this, with world class talent. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Outbehave Your Competition to Create Customers for Life ,” offers eight key principles for defining and managing the experience to keep it consistent and profitable: Keep every employee on stage, delivering an experience. They have to out-behave and outperform your competition. Gregg Lederman, in his recent book, “ ENGAGED!:

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam’s vision was to build a world-class “reverse logistics” company that could be as ambitious as Amazon has been in delivering goods to our houses. We weren’t in enough cities to do national advertising campaigns yet we weren’t centralized enough to benefit off of our central marketing traction.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2017

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. These include office space and supplies, travel, training, bookkeeping, advertising, and many others.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Advertisers. www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Fast Pitch Competition. Joyent - An Enterprise Class Cloud Computing Company funded by Intel Capital, provides the most comprehensive cloud solution available today. Brilliant web and iPhone app design.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Outbehave Your Competition to Create Customers for Life ,” offers eight key principles for defining and managing the experience to keep it consistent and profitable: Keep every employee on stage, delivering an experience. They have to outbehave and outperform your competition. Gregg Lederman, in his latest book, “ ENGAGED!:

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. I wish more startups were rigorous in defining market needs and competitive differentiate versus throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks but it seems as an industry we’re breeding the culture of the latter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Competition and sustainable advantage.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2016

For instance, in the High Tech Sales class, we discussed the necessity of tracking ad performance. Since we have released our product, and are now looking to acquire new users, this has proven to be extremely valuable for getting a high return from our advertising expenditures. We’ve been applying a number of lessons learned so far.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Competition and sustainable advantage.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2011

Towards the end of last month, Culver City-based ThinkNear (www.thinknear.com) announced a seed round of funding for its location-based mobile advertising service, with notable inclusion of such firms as IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. How are you doing things differently? How did that go?

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. We actually wrote the business plan in a business plan class at USC. The other thing, which turns out to be a competitive advantage we have over our competitors, is your data is completely safe with us. How is the firm funded?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Many entrepreneurs I know don’t realize that the language they learned in the corporate world, or even their recent MBA class, won’t get them ahead in the startup world today. Osmosis marketing is the hot new term for word-of-mouth advertising. As a reality check, try this quick test of your entrepreneur savvy. Social mobile web.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Jenna can also search for local events, boot camps, or fitness classes. Advertising revenue is generated from each site visitor, paid or otherwise. Any competition in LA? We haven’t identified any competition in LA, specifically. Our team is very well-rounded, so we don’t worry too much about the competition.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

The exciting this, and the biggest benefit from bootstrapping this from recruiting, is I've been able to develop, and hand-pick a world class technology team. Is this at all competitive with LinkedIn? There are lots of people there doing competitive intelligence, or doing research on an industry or landscape.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it requires at least 100M users and $50M investment. Competition and sustainable advantage.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

They wanted to use the platform we had developed in a class called Mashup Culture. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition. It's in advertising, public relations, and for the last fifteen years, television. Our first success we kind of backed into, with the New School in New York.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Internet advertising is good. the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Internet advertising is good. L90 was the premier advertising network on the Internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

So even within the “alternative class&# our LPs are looking at other asset investment choices such as distressed buyout funds, private equity or hedge funds. Revenue must come from a primary source (as opposed to advertising or other third party sources). I’m not anti competition – to the contrary.

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Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. I guess this is how a world-class firm like Sequoia Capital finds and invests in world-class companies such as Google, Yahoo!

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Any competition in LA? We also offer a hybrid model learning experience including: video tutorials, online workshops, consultations, guided course programs, and live classes – which allow different customer profiles to enjoy different levels of experience at different price points.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Endeavor's partners, advertisers, and publishers will reap the rewards of the company's long-standing industry relationships. Standing out in this highly competitive field, Endeavor Ads seeks to revolutionize the Performance Marketing space by building unique lead-gen offers targeted at the rapidly growing baby-boomer niche. (mt)

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Endeavor's partners, advertisers, and publishers will reap the rewards of the company's long-standing industry relationships. Standing out in this highly competitive field, Endeavor Ads seeks to revolutionize the Performance Marketing space by building unique lead-gen offers targeted at the rapidly growing baby-boomer niche. (mt)

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. The philosophy of OPEC has been that if they can limit the amount of oil supplied to the world they can maintain high prices in a world where demand and competition should naturally have downward pressure on oil prices.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. It is the second largest city in the country with (18 million inhabitants) (vs. million in SF Bay Area ).

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. I started dabbling with a few ideas around online advertising, search engines and other random projects. Zondigo, Inc. Startup 3.0:

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