Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Competition isn’t the biggest problem in a field so primed for innovation, says Tang, who is. So how much room remains for startups that are relative latecomers? Plenty, says Chon Tang, one of the leaders involved in launching a new program for chip developers at UC Berkeley’s growing startup accelerator SkyDeck.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. This is true on all of the major tech blogs. So your goal should be a steady stream of news across many different news outlets and your own blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

I tell people that they need to blog about their industry to drive customers and not blog to their egos to drive their peer group to their blogs. We go through case studies like how Mint.com & Magento drove large audiences through great content marketing strategies. I endorse the growth hacking culture on teams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

His challenge is to focus on one market, with a specific design, cost, and price. Then, he'll need to patent it and create a plan to show opportunity, competition, and financial projections. Build your own personal brand image through blogging, industry forums, and networking. Yes, there are a lot of bridges to cross.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

I’m generally not a believer in too much PR until you have a product built or at least well designed. This is somewhat changing in the world of crowd funding where people actually raise money so that they can build products but at a minimum your product design ought to be complete and ready to execute. Just don’t spam people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. If you like the quick summary notes, please check out Adam’s blog on tech, entrepreneurship & VC as a thank you. If you don’t read it and you care about tech & entrepreneurship, you should. West Coast”).

Technical Review 281

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry. Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success. Amplify Mentor Panel in full swing.

Web Design 103

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

I told him only 2 weeks ago when we were in London together that I wanted to write a blog post that has been in my head for 2 years. He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis. My pal Dave occasionally presents “headline risks” for investors. I’ve been told so.

Startup 309

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Add a blog to give yourself a voice, show your expertise, but skip the sales pitch. Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). Above all, don’t forget to observe your competition and their social media activity.

Social Media 108

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 72

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist).

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The short video app builder was facing competition from the likes of Twitter’s Vine and Facebook’s Instagram video and MixBit. According to JJ Aguhob in a blog post , “As a startup, we knew we needed to evolve. And after six months of insane design, coding and development, we have several new products to share with the world.”

Snapchat 73

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Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

One of the most effective ways for a tech startup to reduce the risk of cyberattacks is to leverage a network designed for privacy and security. Reach out to our team , and we can discuss your security needs and solutions designed to address any vulnerabilities. What Network Setups Are Best For Startup Security?

Startup 96

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 105

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Today, with instant and pervasive Internet communication, you can sell your vision via blogging, crowdfunding, and videos before you spend big money building prototypes and pivoting as you learn. Too many founders still focus their product design and selling efforts only on direct paybacks to the customer.

Marketing 92

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required.

Marketing 90

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

” Part of the beauty of blogging that in two sittings Fred was able to influence what was built over the next 12 months. I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. Use that as a source of competition. I also love Batch.

Web 334

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2012

To top it off they also announced a “Rule the Beach: Hack Your Way into Viddy” developer competition in a blog post : …Team Viddy would like to invite you to join the Silicon Beach community, by entering our “Rule the Beach: Hack Your Way into Viddy” Developers Competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

Love that sustainable competitive advantage. Working on that unique design, or completing the breakthrough for an innovative patent, are moments of inspiration that you will never forget, especially if they become your competitive edge. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs.

Startup 100

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The bad news is that many are already doing it, with competition growing, so the longer you wait, the less chance you have of getting there first. You no longer need to travel to China or hire an expensive prototyping expert to mock up your new design. Site marketing is easily extended through blogs, Twitter, Facebook and social media.

Startup 108

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. Stay Tuned.

Startup 248

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. That is true of all my blog posts. It is what I love the most about debates and one of the things I love most about blogging. I suspect Mr. Wadhwa used hyperbole in his TechCrunch blog post to get more readers to look at his work. So it is with entrepreneurship.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

Without the proper capacity or availability to carry the necessary traffic, telecoms will have trouble attracting new business and remaining competitive. When discussing the quality of a network there are three commonly used designations: . Enterprise grade- networks that are designed for flexibility, reliability, and customization.

Networking 54

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

Love that sustainable competitive advantage. Working on that unique design, or completing the breakthrough for an innovative patent, are moments of inspiration that you will never forget, especially if they become your competitive edge. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs.

Entrepreneur 102

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2018

If you want your company and team members to be seen as going above and beyond the competition, you need to include an element that adds social value or sustainability for the greater community. Make sure you select a mission that adds shared value and provides a competitive edge, as well as playing to your strengths and interests.

Startup 58

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Southern California Edison Blog

JULY 17, 2020

As the business world continues to grow and enterprises push for greater innovation, they will require strong, reliable, and high-capacity networks to stay competitive and support mission-critical services. Business ethernet allows companies to stay agile to meet current and future bandwidth needs as they grow. Easily Scalable.

Networking 66

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. Fall quarter of Sr. Along with taking Sr.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2010

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required.

Marketing 56

Marketing SEM Blogging Design 56

Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Enterprises face several network-related challenges that can affect their competitiveness and ability to grow and serve customers. Cost-effective network solutions designed for reliability, security, and performance. Challenges such as costly network investments, low performance, and tedious management plagues many organizations.

Networking 77

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry. Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success. Amplify Mentor Panel in full swing.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

Southern California Edison Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

Optical wavelength networks provide organizations with several capabilities that enable them to promote workplace productivity and stay competitive. Optical networking are designed for low latency, high capacity data transfers, which enables organizations to achieve optimal performance and network reliability. .

Services 52

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition. We’re a tool for hackers, designers, and entrepreneurs - effectively everyone who reads Hacker News. For us, the audience was perfect. that is attractive to that particular community.".

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