Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2021

The tighter the loop, the greater the value captured and the stronger the competitive differentiation. This number almost doubles the number who have already moved into the middle class and urbanized. It’s a higher calling than one more social media platform. Upgrade, reuse, or recycle every product. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2023

Exciting new technologies these days range from the niche social media software platforms I see almost every month, to new transportation models, like consumer space travel and driverless autos. If you claim no competition, investors may perceive that you have no market, or you haven’t looked. Neither is positive.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

The Vice President of Business Development reports to the CEO and is responsible for the direction and management of all worldwide sales operations direct and indirect, including market competitiveness, pricing, compensation, and distribution. Business Development Director, Colony Logic - Los Angeles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. FabLab s is an example of a new class of facilities for entrepreneurs to start experimenting early.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

And a host of interesting companies in last mile have cropped up to give the Amazon ecosystem some competition, like two companies from the last Techstars LA class - Shipsi and PRZM.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2020

Exciting new technologies these days range from the niche social media software platforms I see almost every month, to new transportation models, like consumer space travel and driverless autos. If you claim no competition, investors may perceive that you have no market, or you haven’t looked. Neither is positive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. No human or paper tracking systems are a competitive alternative.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I recently spoke with Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL and current CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , the leader in private cloud platforms. You have always been able to run HA (high available) applications on top of Eucalyptus, but now the cloud platform itself is actually HA.”. We are the cloud platform, so we form the cloud for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Johansen calls this uncovering your right-of-way. Learn by experimenting in low-cost and iterative ways.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

million for their agtech product, Bushel , which is an industry-first mobile grain app platform. Watch CoSchedule pitch at TechCo Startup of the Year Competition. For example, Innovate ND operates at several entrepreneurial centers offering bootcamp-type classes with expense reimbursement grants.

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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.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

We started Milo Sensors over two years ago through the UC Santa Barbara New Venture Competition. As such, none of us had the benefit of your TMP classes (laughs). Greathouse: Yea, it makes sense that standard platforms will be established. Our team formed around the idea that wearable technology needed to dramatically improve.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Johansen calls this uncovering your right-of-way. Learn by experimenting in low-cost and iterative ways.

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IBM IBM Startup Examples 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2011

With more competition in early-stage many VCs are investing smaller amounts at earlier stages. We all know the result of the over-funding of the asset class – poor returns in aggregate for the industry. Or the Cliff Note’s version: Open Source & Cloud Computing (led by Amazon) drove down tech startup costs by 90%.

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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. Charging by the hour only makes sense for commodity work. Use them to increase your return, and drive repeat business.

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Pricing Entrepreneur Mentor News 68

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

founder and CEO of Gust, the angel financing platform used by over 50,000. The basic concept has to make some kind of sense given the technical, market and competitive environment, otherwise nothing else matters. Described by BusinessWeek as a “world conquering. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur and the founder of New York Angels.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Music Prodigy in June was the only finalist from Los Angeles in a competition that featured over 30 finalists from around the world and was named the Judge’s Winner and Audience Winner at the Silicon Valley hosted competition organized by business accelerator Plug and Play Technology Center. Learning also needs skill and experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2015

The tighter the loop, the greater the value captured and the stronger the competitive differentiation. This number almost doubles the number who have already moved into the middle class and urbanized. It’s a higher calling than one more social media platform. Upgrade, reuse, or recycle every product. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 100

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2018

The tighter the loop, the greater the value captured and the stronger the competitive differentiation. This number almost doubles the number who have already moved into the middle class and urbanized. It’s a higher calling than one more social media platform. Upgrade, reuse, or recycle every product. Marty Zwilling.

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Resource Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 66

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. In Venice, California they opened a “Parachute Hotel” that let consumers experience the product for a night in a world-class location.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Exciting new technologies these days range from the easier to use social media software platforms I see almost every week, to new transportation models, like consumer space travel and hydrogen fuel autos. If you claim no competition, investors may perceive that you have no market, or you haven’t looked. Neither is positive.

Technology 114

Technology Startup Social Media Custom 114

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. recently did a lecture at a Babson MBA summer class on Entrepreneurial Leadership. No, that IS NOT a competitive advantage - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 12, 2010 This is part 1 of the series: 5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches.

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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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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. 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. Competition and sustainable advantage.

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Competition Metrics Startup Invest 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2014

The tighter the loop, the greater the value captured and the stronger the competitive differentiation. This number almost doubles the number who have already moved into the middle class and urbanized. It’s a higher calling than one more social media platform. Upgrade, reuse, or recycle every product. Marty Zwilling.

Resource 96

Resource Ideas Startup Commerce 96

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. We've been in discussions with news organizations to use the platform, including with large organizations and journalism sites. We hope to have that to market within six months.

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Journal USC News Startup 187

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. 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. Competition and sustainable advantage.

Competition 116

Competition Metrics Startup Sales 116

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2016

Exciting new technologies these days range from the easier to use social media software platforms I see almost every week, to new transportation models, like consumer space travel and hydrogen fuel autos. If you claim no competition, investors may perceive that you have no market, or you haven’t looked. Neither is positive.

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Social Media Custom Customer Marketing 55

socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

The bottom line is, we''re building an entirely new, wireless platform and technology, and to do that right, it takes quite a bit of capital. However, if you''re successful, the payout is quite large, and there''s a little bit less competition in the space. For hardware, it''s even more challenging.

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Technical Review Software Review Networking Technology 213

socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

Albert Ko: I started at Cornell University in the Class of 2006, with a degree in material science engineering and a masters in management engineering. There is lots and lots of competition in the area, how is your firm different from the others? Let's talk about your background, and also how this related to CheapCheapCheat?

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

We also did a company in Northern California, Weoutta, which is a consumer app for making future plans, which is built on top of a pretty robust data platform. We have a lot of world class universities here. Although they might have more people in the field up in the Bay Area, there''s more competition for those people.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

I recall being impressed with Jeff, but I was concerned that he was creating a platform, which often requires a significant amount of capital, takes an extended amount of time to establish and can be subject to margin pressure as the enabling technologies become commoditized. John Greathouse <john *@ *.com> com> 4/25/08.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Following graduate school, he worked in Film Finance and Sales at CAA, Creative Development at Vuguru (Michael Eisner’s multi-platform studio), and Content Partnerships at Blip Networks. Learn how to get it seen and monetized from Mike Tringe, previously of Blip Networks and Vuguru, Michael Eisner’s multi-platform studio.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

They’re up to date on the latest platform decisions whether it’s understanding Spring , Hibernate and Lucene. 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. This is the person who lays the foundation of what should be built.

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CTO Hire Fractional VPE Startup Outsource Development 400

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2010

Advanced persistence threats (APT) – opens the door to a new class of intelligent application cracking tools. You need to be plugged in to be career competitive with hyper-networked peers, and keep ahead of competitors. Best online collaboration platform for project teams. Flexible, easily customizable productivity tools.

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Social Network Networking Tool Sites 87

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2015

To sum it up, it would have created a two class system of Internet users. An “Internet Class System” would utterly destroy thousands of tech startups and small business that depend on fair and equal access to the Internet. If your competition can afford to pay your provider more, then you’re out of luck.

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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. 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. Competition and sustainable advantage.

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Invest Tips Competition Metrics 74