Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2023

These authors bring a wealth of knowledge from their decades of practicing executive coaching and psychology, as well as business employment law, with real companies both before and during the transition. Use shared-document platforms, in-house message systems, and online whiteboards, to maximize sharing and minimize miscommunication.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. In today’s competitive world, with its accelerating rate of change, no competitive advantage lasts long. The only sustainable competitive advantage is creativity. Maximize diversity. Creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In the short run, there are real costs associated with the “triple bottom line” of maximizing profit, people (social), and planet (environment). I believe this option will continue to spread to other companies, states and countries. Startups can use social responsibility as a competitive advantage.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

It turns out the virtual and augmented reality companies aren’t dead — as long as they focus on the enterprise. Cornerstone, which led the Talespin Series B round, will also be partnering with the company to develop human resources training tools in virtual reality. “We Talespin previously raised $5 million in financing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2022

Many entrepreneurs still don’t understand that building a business culture today of doing good, like helping people (society) and planet (sustainability), is also a key to maximizing profit. Every company needs this focus to attract the best minds and loyalty in both categories. Doing good opens the door to a broader customer base.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2021

That’s how you brand yourself as an expert in your niche and make your company the one that others seek out and turn to. Of those, approximate 70% said they wouldn’t deal with a new company if it didn’t have a social media presence. Maximize customer retention. Keep up with the competition. You need to be there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Starting an entrepreneurial business, or maintaining the competitiveness of a mature business, requires innovation. Barbee, based on his 45-year career and work as an innovation guru with several Fortune 100 companies and the Darden School of Business. Innovation is random, and can’t be orchestrated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2021

Starting an entrepreneurial business, or maintaining the competitiveness of a mature business, requires innovation. Barbee, based on his 45-year career and work as an innovation guru with several Fortune 100 companies and the Darden School of Business. Innovation is random, and can’t be orchestrated.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Today's technology companies increasingly must deliver products on multiple platforms to satisfy customer demand and competitive pressures. The need to provide "platform de jour" is complicated by a slowing economy and customer desires to maximize their purchasing dollar and to delay payments. See [link] (more).

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2009

For our Insights and Opinions section today, we have an article from Peter Lee , a venture capitalist at Baroda Ventures (www.barodaventures.com), discussing company valuation, and what the real goal of setting a value on a company is, and should be. They view the "valuation negotiation" with a VC just another competition to win.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2021

While searching a while back for the most effective strategies of companies that have achieved huge growth, I came across the classic book “ Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World ,” by Peter H. Incent friendly competition with prizes. Maximize your online brand and media presence. Diamandis and Steven Kotler.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Here are some key strategies to maximize the agility required for you to survive and prosper: Stamp out organizational inflexibility. Bureaucracy can appear quickly in startups as well as large companies. Let your continuous innovation become your sustainable competitive advantage. The real problem is inflexible people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2021

Every entrepreneur tries to maximize his startup growth by building and selling more product and services for the widest geographic area that he can support. Many entrepreneurs are paranoid about the partnership approach, and think that M&A is only an alternative for large companies who are flush with cash.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2023

Indeed, while the rules and technologies for lead generation have changed, Forrester and other experts still see it as the most effective way for businesses with limited budgets to maximize their return on marketing investment (ROI). One of these experts, David T.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

Discord is a great example of a company going viral mostly from word of mouth. I was chairman of a company that distributed its product through over one hundred fifty retail Internet travel channels, all websites where someone else spent the money attracting their users and attempting to go viral.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Start by reviewing current statistics, like the recent Social Media Marketing Benchmark Report 2022 , to learn which social media sites are most popular, which features drive the most impact today, and how other social media marketers have maximized their efforts and seen the greatest ROI. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

He went on to start many successful companies, including General Electric. The business world today is very competitive, and customers are more and more demanding. I urge you to practice the strategies outlined here and maximize your business survival and success today. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/10/2022.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Although the plot was obviously devised for comic effect, it serves to illustrate that non-conventional methods of infiltrating Big Dumb Companies (BDCs) are often effective. Entrepreneurs constantly have to capture the attention of larger companies. Eventually, you will reach someone at the target company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Many entrepreneurs still don’t understand that building a business culture today of doing good, like helping people (society) and planet (sustainability), is also a key to maximizing profit. Every company needs this focus to attract the best minds and loyalty in both categories. Doing good opens the door to a broader customer base.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 -- Restructuring for Success: Structuring Existing Debt to Maximize Potential in the Changing Marketplace. During the economic downturn of the last several years, many companies survived by expanding their accounts payable and delaying payments under contracts. See [link] (more).

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Every person and every company needs a set of core values. In this very competitive age, with the current high rate of change in the marketplace, it behooves you to maximize your self-leadership, and be perceived as the business leader you always wanted to be. You can’t be a leader without values.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2015

Bill Gross started Idealab in 1996 to create and operate pioneering technology companies. The structure of Idealab has allowed us to test many ideas at once and turn the best of them into companies, attracting the human and financial capital necessary to bring them to market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

In today’s world of growing competition and customer evolution , holding your own, and growing to the next level is a constant challenge that can never be ignored. Even companies with long-established and well-respected brands, such as Apple and Amazon, can’t afford to rest on their laurels. Building a business is not a solo act.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Given the company is calling this a lifestyle store, the focus will likely be on showing how Lime’s scooters and bikes can become part of people’s lives and enhance their happiness, rather than on maximizing rental volume. We’ve reached out to Lime and will update if we hear back from the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Indeed, while the rules and technologies for lead generation have changed, Forrester and other experts still see it as the most effective way for businesses with limited budgets to maximize their return on marketing investment (ROMI). One of these experts, David T.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2019

That’s how you brand yourself as an expert in your niche and make your company the one that others seek out and turn to. Of those, approximate 70% said they wouldn’t deal with a new company if it didn’t have a social media presence. Maximize customer retention. Keep up with the competition. With over 77% of the U.S.

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Southern California Edison Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Telecom carriers may face several network-related challenges ranging from high costs, security concerns, and downtime, however managed network service providers (MNSPs) can provide telecom companies with the guidance and support they need to succeed. Emerging Trends in the Telecom Industry. Coverage Outages. 1] [link].

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2009

According to OpenX, the marketplace will integrate with its software, and allow publishers to maximize their revenues. The addition of the marketplace--which can be enabled in a software setting by publishers--puts the software firm in direct competition with companies such as Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. In today’s competitive world, with its accelerating rate of change, no competitive advantage lasts long. The only sustainable competitive advantage is creativity. Maximize diversity. Creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage.

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Competition Netflix Ideas Metrics 65

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Here are some key strategies to maximize the agility required for you to survive and prosper: Stamp out organizational inflexibility. Bureaucracy can appear quickly in startups as well as large companies. Let your continuous innovation become your sustainable competitive advantage. The real problem is inflexible people.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2019

How to Deal with Electronic Distractions Of course the biggest competition you have with the attention of your board members is their mobile phones. The most value you’ll get out of your board is when they’re speaking and offering you feedback and experiences from others companies in which they’re involved. Most likely you’d be wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2012

His focus is on repeatable practices to maximize business opportunities in large companies, but I’m convinced that these apply equally well to startups: Clearly define your value chain. Maximize technology architecture and standards. Your value chain consists of customers, partners, vendors, internal systems, and your own team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2013

The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. In today’s competitive world, with its accelerating rate of change, no competitive advantage lasts long. The only sustainable competitive advantage is creativity. Maximize diversity. Creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

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. When comparing competition, don’t use fuzzy terms such as improved usability, faster, less expensive and more productive. Quantify your value over current market alternatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2011

His focus is on repeatable practices to maximize business opportunities in large companies, but I’m convinced that these apply equally well to startups: Clearly define your value chain. Maximize technology architecture and standards. Your value chain consists of customers, partners, vendors, internal systems, and your own team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2017

Of course, a company still needs to make a profit to survive, but supporting a worthy cause can be the most profitable brand building you can do. Is seen by customers as a competitive edge. This makes everyone in the company more engaged, more responsive, and more productive.

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