Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2018

I believe these insights can and must be extended to you and your career, in line with the following guiding principles: Make your interest in learning your competitive advantage. Smart employers look for these as they contemplate your competitiveness for new roles. Define personalized learning goals with a timetable.

Examples 85

Examples Social Media Competition Guide 85

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. We knew there’s a better personal training experience to be had, so we set out to create one. Why did you venture into fitness? Who is on your team?

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The Founders Series is a happy hour competition where up to five, handpicked startups have 1 minute to pitch their company and detail their value proposition in the marketplace in front of an audience. I participate as a guest speaker to Professor Andrew Fry’s class each semester, as well.

Startup 70

Startup Class Resource Examples 70

Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

New employees are offered $2,000 to quit after the first week of training if they decide the job isn’t for them. Customers loyal to Southwest often point to happy and friendly employees who try hard to help. It offers other health-oriented programs such as massages and personal training. What does that culture look like?

Examples 100

Examples Company Companies Google 100

Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

New employees are offered $2,000 to quit after the first week of training if they decide the job isn’t for them. Customers loyal to Southwest often point to happy and friendly employees who try hard to help. It offers other health-oriented programs such as massages and personal training. What does that culture look like?

Examples 100

Examples Company Companies Google 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk.

Technical Advisors 105

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 105

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

I had never had any sales training so everything we did for the first couple of years was instinctual. We focused together on improving our sales methodology, our training and our comp plans. Obviously to understand a “class&# of people you have to make broad generalizations. Sure, you need to be competitive on price.

Sales 316

Sales Startup Pricing Customer 316

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2017

She speaks from years of experience mentoring and facilitating independent contractors and helping large companies, since well before the term “gig economy” was even coined. Know your competitive value. These include office space and supplies, travel, training, bookkeeping, advertising, and many others.

Pricing 68

Pricing Entrepreneur Mentor News 68

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk.

Technical Advisors 57

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 57

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

Trying to work without this person is like wanting to build a world class sky scraper but not having a great lead architect and civil engineer. VP’s of Engineering are essential to making sure the trains run on time. They still have the respect of their team because they’re technical by training.

CTO Hire 400

CTO Hire Fractional VPE Startup Outsource Development 400

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk.

Technical Advisors 98

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 98

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6-month training program. I hadn’t cried this much maybe since childhood. They wanted opportunity.

Writing 150

Writing Startup Design Training 150

InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

We help companies reward their employees with perks. And we hired folks who had previous leadership positions and proof points of being competitive. We brought in 10 – 20 people in each class. In real-world training scenarios (over two weeks), on the phone selling, we cut 75% of them.

Summary 246

Summary Tips Sales Entrepreneur 246

socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

Those deals require that a certain minimum people participate, and many also have a maximum number to take advantage of those limited time specials, which helps them to get more exposure and business, plus helps out the community. There is lots and lots of competition in the area, how is your firm different from the others?

Orange County 170

Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

What our program does, is if you get a question wrong, we help determine where you need help. If you're teaching classes of 32 maybe even 37 students, it's difficult to know where students are. However, on the group side, a class has 15-17 students. It's at a more granular level. That does create some scaling issues.

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

But what chapped my hide was that every early assignment at Accenture they divided teams, training and assignments into “technical” and “non technical.” I asked him if I could join his practice as the guy who could help him bridge technology & business. She was paid 15% more. That was the market. He took me.

Technical Advisors 385

Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Leading advertising networks like Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google Affiliate Network, ShareASale and many others license our platform to help their advertisers and publishers easily create, manage, track, and optimize call-based advertising campaigns.”. Who do you view as your biggest competition? Our platform helps them do that.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

A membership program for Sports Fields, Gyms, Fitness Classes. He’s helped shut down more companies than he’s started. . Once he slept on a horse during a horse-riding class! India’s Mobile first eBates and its digital assistant helps consumers find the best savings online. Clicky, Inc. . AngelList: [link]. Drivio, Inc.

Startup 40

Startup Training SaaS Walnut 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Some data like those in the studies I mentioned above might help influence our thinking but the answer is, in the end, subjective. You’re not born into being a world-class software developer. But I’m not naive enough to think that I am factually right. So it is with entrepreneurship. Or at least 73.6%

Startup 289

Startup Statistics Entrepreneur Study 289

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

We've got a nice API with ties to the enterprise class applications. We were over 2x up on this round, and we also had a bunch of individual investors who wanted to put in--people who had invested in our competition a few years ago. The final thing is our business model. We have an almost no-risk model.

Startup 113

Startup CTO Hire Resource Venture Capital 113

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Working with startup lawyers also minimizes the risk of losing control of your adVenture, as they can help you avoid common fundraising and investor pitfalls. In addition, such an arrangement will further cement your lawyer’s incentive to help you succeed. Remember – you are hiring a lawyer, not a law firm.

Technical Advisors 124

Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Programming should be the middle class job of the next 20 years. But getting well paying job in technology and importantly distributed all across this country is important to the future competition of the US in the world and important to helping solve our economic problems. Again, not for everybody. Full product out shortly.

Invest 295

Invest Carson Technical Review Education 295

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

He launched a business called Unsubscribe, which helped consumers deal with the deluge of email lists that one gets signed up to and get rid of them all. Throughout all of this we saw a tinkerer, a problem solver and a completely obsessed leader who was competitive and wanted to win. We weren’t sure. He did all of these and more.

Startup 247

Startup Pricing Product Marketing 247

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email. The right way to position against competition - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , August 23, 2010 This is Part 4 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.?? Dec 26, 2009).

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. Yet entrepreneurs in one class think that the others aren’t the “real” entrepreneurs. had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. Delegate and automate.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2021

I’m not a world-class athlete and I never will be (nor want to be). It pushed me harder, it became my own little competition with imaginary people I was riding against and with myself. On May 31st the competition ended. And Strava is the tool that helps me gamify my frequency. I became happier every day.

Startup 302

Startup Screening Competition Training 302

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

People who failed to industrialize, however well intentioned one’s goals, were at a competitive disadvantage to those who had. In order to combat the losses of traditional jobs we invested in education and training and public infrastructure that enabled the growth of the middle class. But the opposite is equally true.

Education 150

Education Resource Class Course 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It’s an important film and the most important topic of our generation if we as a country want to remain competitive in a world that has globalized. Pouring more money into the system isn’t helping because THE SYSTEM is broken. I poured myself into planning and I won the class-wide competition.

Class 340

Class Education Technical Review Writing 340