Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

As an angel investor, I hear many entrepreneurs making negative comments about competitors or asserting they don’t have any competitors. They don’t realize that knocking competitors is assessed as a weakness and denying that you have any competition suggests there is no market for your solution.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2014

The difference here, is the quick injection of capital and guidance to create bullet train-like growth. As Dave McClure, founder of 500 Startups quoted from the Economist puts it… “I’d rather get $100,000 and be a case study than pay $100,000 to read case studies.”

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Tesla is not.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Who do you view as your biggest competition? You have tremendous momentum and clearly could have raised capital from a variety of sources. We met with a ton of VC’s and angels. Good ideas, great people and access to capital are key to any thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. You’re right.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. The PepsiCo10 program in 2010 saw the company team up with Mashable and Highland Capital Partners to. Collaboration Over Competition: Competitors as Business Partners. Entrepreneurism / Monetization competition, ecommerce, small business. . Joshua Baer, Capital Factory. Having the.

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