Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Most businesses spend big money testing their brand logo, catchy marketing phrases, and demographics, but spend little time training and validating that their employees can and do deliver memorable experiences to their customers. They have to outbehave and outperform your competition. Keep your team happy to create engaged customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2015

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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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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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2011

Customers can send money online or via their phone. Jonathan Cooper: We were in beta for about a year, and we've now been serving customers all over the world. 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. What is ATMCASH? It's not an easy thing to do.

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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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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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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Advertisers. www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Fast Pitch Competition. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. The City of Glendale (www.thinkglendale.com). Think Glendale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. This is not the place for a detailed product specification, but an explanation of how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Competition and sustainable advantage.

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Competition Metrics Startup Invest 113

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. Our only customers are merchants. How are you doing things differently?

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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

MAY 13, 2011

Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. This is not the place for a detailed product specification, but an explanation of how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Competition and sustainable advantage.

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Competition Metrics Startup Sales 116

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. Back to the website, describe who the demographics are of your customers? You mentioned earlier that the customers you are targeting tend to be pretty busy-- what's your strategy to get those customers to sign up and stay? It's fun an effective.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Jenna can also search for local events, boot camps, or fitness classes. We have 115 paying customers right now. Advertising revenue is generated from each site visitor, paid or otherwise. Any competition in LA? We haven’t identified any competition in LA, specifically. How many users? What is your business model?

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. This is not the place for a detailed product specification, but an explanation of how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Competition and sustainable advantage.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

We also allow the users to have a custom URL, for example, resumebucket.com/joshstomel. 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? What's the idea behind the site?

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2021

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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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Mike’s work in sales, marketing, distribution, and business development is essential to customer acquisition, growth, and scalability. Sara’s expertise in production and course curriculum programming gives her insight into customer and content development, production workflow, infrastructure, and user experience. Any competition in LA?

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Bring your products to your Customers, their social network and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications. Endeavor's partners, advertisers, and publishers will reap the rewards of the company's long-standing industry relationships. We don’t fry it (unhealthy). We don’t bake it (undelicious). mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Bring your products to your Customers, their social network and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications. Endeavor's partners, advertisers, and publishers will reap the rewards of the company's long-standing industry relationships. We don’t fry it (unhealthy). We don’t bake it (undelicious). mt) Media Temple, Inc.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

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.

Pricing 68

Pricing Entrepreneur Mentor News 68

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. If you hit a groove on funding and customer growth it does become a challenge to ramp quickly.

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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. StrongMail’s software ensures reliable and timely delivery of their critical customer communications. Zondigo, Inc. Be scrappy.

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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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