socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2019

According to Radicle Growth, it made the investment in WeedOUT as part of the Radicle Challenge Israel, a competition to identify the most promising agtech and foodtech startups in Israel.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Competitors have a field day when hearing about cash problems at a company; and the rumors they pass on can reverberate for months or longer after the problem is solved. Fourth is competitive risk. This falls squarely on management to perform, to take the company to and beyond profitability. This consists of two separate risks.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 20, 2018

We dive into the crucial process of gathering and analyzing information about markets, industries, and products in their competitive spaces. Consumer insights are used to discover areas of opportunity by identifying trends in the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2022

Since it takes a team of people to build a great company, the challenge is to find that small percentage of innovative people, and then nurture the tendency, rather than stifle it. The story most specifically targets big companies, like Boeing, but the concepts are just as applicable to a startup with one or more employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. For these companies, it looks like a rosy picture. no surprise?—?that’s that’s where the customers are. But if you ask anyone in the ecosystem of customer acquisition?—?founders,

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 25, 2024

Especially if they have sold their companies and live comfortably upon the proceeds, these people are often the most willing to help and the most patient through the process. His average percentage of a company was 5% in return for spending a day a week as I recall. Where can you find the best coaches? How do you pay a coach?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2012

Porter proposed his Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment which I think makes even more sense today. Every existing business, as well as every startup, needs to reassess their product or service in the context of these five forces: Intensity of competitive rivalry. Way back in 1979, Michael E.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Many CEOs have asked me if I felt an investment banker adds value if the buyer has already been identified. Investment bankers sometimes slow the process by requiring a cloud-based “data room” and “deal book” to be prepared containing considerable information about a company to help a buyer. How investment bankers behave.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Exposure instills the fear and urgency you need to deliver the right competitive solution. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. Exposure is another key ingredient. What will set your business apart?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Networking to build and maintain positive relationships with the right people outside your company is something you can’t forget in the rush to get your new business going. Highlight the competitive edge you bring to the market. Use test marketing to identify changes before scale-up. This is not a place for friends and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2010

In my own effort to keep up with the times, I just finished a new book by Landy Chase, titled “ Competitive Selling: Out-Plan, Out-Think, Out-Sell to Win Every Time.” Establish the competitive playing field early. Do a real client needs analysis before you start pitching your company value, employee role, and customer product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2023

I realized a while back that creating a new company for the first time is a lot like whipping up a great dinner entree for the first time – you need a recipe, even though it may look simple. If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. Companies and cooks who rest on their laurels don’t last.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2023

The challenge for every entrepreneur and every business is to understand the pragmatics of identifying and reacting to what their customers love and what they hate. If you are looking for a lasting competitive advantage, I recommend that you follow the steps outlined here to create experiences that your customers crave.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

A few companies are leading the way, including Apple with their iPad and iPhone, offering irresistible stores with friendly experts, elegant packaging, and customer service that never ends. Full customer experience use cases are key because they help identify interactions between stages of design work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2022

A related “red flag” in a business plan is a missing competitive analysis section, or a short paragraph that essentially says, “this product has no competition.” My reaction is, if there is no competition, then there is no market demand for your product, so why are you building it?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2022

Identify your current strengths and establish plans for improving. Identify and redirect unhealthy competition and comparisons. Competition sabotages teamwork and leaves feelings of isolation and alienation. Make you the base, not others. Use others as a source of inspiration, rather than envy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Identify the smallest segments possible of your constituents. Identify the communities for these micro-segments. Identify the influencers of these communities. It’s time for you to learn the best practices of using social media in your company, and putting them to work before your competition puts you out of work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

I realized a while back that creating a new company for the first time is a lot like whipping up a great dinner entrée for the first time – you need a recipe, even though it may look simple. If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. Companies and cooks who rest on their laurels don’t last.

Startup 156

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 156

Berkonomics

JULY 18, 2019

There is a major trend shaping up that is worldwide, already identified by hundreds of thousands of startup and small business CEO’s. Every business has an intellectual foundation where the CEO’s knowledge and vision create a barrier to entry that deflects some or much of the potential competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2020

A few companies are leading the way, including Apple with their iPad and iPhone, offering irresistible stores with friendly experts, elegant packaging, and customer service that never ends. Full customer experience use cases are key because they help identify interactions between stages of design work.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 5, 2020

In the creation of a young company, there are five principal risks to be addressed by the entrepreneur. So, it is important for the entrepreneur to identify, address and mitigate each of these in order to increase valuation and decrease the risk of ultimate loss of the business. And fifth: Competitive risk. . Why five risks?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2023

Every team member needs stimulation to broaden their horizons, correct weaknesses, and understand competitive strategies. Most successful companies I know work hard at identifying high-potential team members , and give them frequent growth assignments to new projects or staff assignments to top executives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2022

Every so often a promising entrepreneur seems to freeze in the oncoming headlights and gets run over by his competition. The company's market is the same. The Art and Science of Good Decisions ,” summarizes good decision making as: Identifying all reasonable actions. This is a problem with many product-based companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The challenge for every entrepreneur and every business is to understand the pragmatics of identifying and reacting to what their customers love and what they hate. If you are looking for a lasting competitive advantage, I recommend that you follow the steps outlined here to create experiences that your customers crave.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

At TechEmpower, we’ve conducted more than 50 technical reviews for companies of all sizes, industries, and technical stacks. Other common scenarios that we’ve seen: Scaling and new markets: Your company and product are established, and now you’re scaling or going after new markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2022

Every company needs this focus to attract the best minds and loyalty in both categories. Ask the right questions to identify the innate personality traits in potential new hires, regardless of level and function, to bring on board those most likely to succeed in and shape your organization. Hire the right team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2016

I suspect the exuberance for an IPO is still being driven by the highly visible successes of several companies a few years ago, including Facebook, Yelp, and Twitter. In fact, IPOs are down again this year, with just 31 companies going public in the U.S. These include the following: Taking a company public is an expensive process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2023

They need to ask customers the difficult questions, and really understand costs versus benefits, as well as competitive alternatives. Building a company and selling are all about gaining commitments. Opening relationships and creating opportunities. It’s up to you to clear the way. Asking for and obtaining commitments.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Many CEOs have asked me if I felt an investment banker adds value if the buyer has already been identified. Investment bankers sometimes slow the process by requiring a “deal book” to be prepared containing considerable information about a company to help a buyer. Deal books are expensive to create.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2019

We spoke with founder and CEO Luke Fox to learn more about the company, and its technology. If you think out the recent incident at Gatwick due to a huge disruption by a drone, were able to identify and mitigate drones operating in that airspace. How did the company start? What were doing in 2019, is scaling the company.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 3, 2012

His talk was especially intriguing, as he attended UCSB, but dropped out to start a clothing design company. In this 8-minute video excerpt from his recent talk, Seth describes the practical, hands-on methodology that he uses on a day-to-day basis to identify and vet his entrepreneurial ideas. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2022

They apparently ignored all conventional wisdom and advisors, and struck a deal which crashed both companies, now a case study in many business schools. By most accounts, this case exhibits almost all the lapses identified in a classic book by Dr. Nicole Lipkin, “ What Keeps Leaders Up At Night.” Case and Gerald M.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

Identify your current strengths and establish plans for improving. Identify and redirect unhealthy competition and comparisons. Competition sabotages teamwork and leaves feelings of isolation and alienation. Make you the base, not others. Use others as a source of inspiration, rather than envy.

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Entrepreneur Startup Satisfaction Competition 98

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Especially if they have sold their companies and live comfortably upon the proceeds, these people are often the most willing to help and the most patient through the process. His average percentage of a company was 5% in return for spending a day a week as I recall. Email readers, continue here…] How do you pay a coach?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2023

For example, many companies are fighting the remote work trend by bringing team members back to the office where they can better focus together on improving customer experience. Many business leaders are now proclaiming their company support to a higher purpose to facilitate this initiative.

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