Berkonomics

JUNE 26, 2025

Is your value proposition for an eventual buyer that you have some secret sauce that allows you to compete more effectively against competition? It starts with each early step in the process of building the enterprise. What creates value in a business?

Class

Berkonomics

MARCH 20, 2025

It seems that the first subject that comes up in such assignments is the health of the competition. Iys a great thrill to consult to companies and their senior management when they have plenty of firepower (extra cash beyond needs) for acquisitions and strategic initiatives. Such bargains; so little time.

Acquisition

Berkonomics

JULY 17, 2025

Product differentiation is absolutely necessary to make a sale when there is visible competition, as there usually is in any sale. Why buy NOW? Your marketing and salespeople must know how to state clearly, with as few words as possible, the reason why your product best responds to the customer’s needs.

Sales

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Curation is obviously also a form of competitive advantage for companies like StitchFix, TrunkClub and DailyLook who offer stylists to help you curate your clothing experiences. A well-curated box where choice & style come into play is very hard to make generic and therefore this company has enjoyed spectacular growth.

Product

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

He wants to compete to be the lead drummer in the competitive ensemble and study under Terence, an obsessive instructor who is hell bent on winning competitions for the school. But the film has my brain buzzing all week about obsessive and competitive people. I absolutely loved the film. I loved the music. We revere musicians.

Competition

Berkonomics

AUGUST 2, 2018

There can be nothing more important in your business planning that selecting the proper pricing niche, making your story clear using that niche, and the defending your position against the competition. What competition would you face? Can you defend your offering against that competition? The five major niches.

Pricing

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. That says you are competitive today, have a real barrier to entry, and the potential to remain ahead of the competition for a long time.

Competition

Berkonomics

MARCH 25, 2021

The post Switching costs: A competitive advantage? Someday I will file the letter and put away the customized gift. In the meantime, those two guys got many more miles from a relatively simple gesture than I would have thought possible. first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2022

He lived the philosophy that companies must be paranoid in order to survive, and continually disrupt their own markets to prevent overrun by competition. Make sure your teams are enabled to make timely decisions, as well as accountability for staying competitive in their domain. Foster a collaboration culture, rather than competition.

Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

In my experience as a business advisor, most organizations, large and small, struggle to keep up with the pace of change and competitive forces today. A question I often get is how to transform that overall team into a smooth-running machine that will keep up with the pace of market change, and competition in today’s world.

Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2020

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are feeling deeper and deeper in the hole. Even if they realize that they need real technical strength at the top, they are not sure how to attract and select the talent and expertise they really need.

Competition

TechCrunch LA

JULY 28, 2019

The big winner in today’s solo challenge was sixteen year-old Kyle “ Bugha ” Giersdorf, who won $3 million for beating out the competition in the solo tournament. Indeed, the esports prize pool is one of the biggest awards for a popular competitive event. Open, which is set to begin in a few weeks at the same stadium.

Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Due to the pervasive Internet, the scope of most successful startup teams today has become global. Also, more people are only available to work remotely , especially with the current pandemic.

Competition

Startup San Diego

AUGUST 31, 2023

The Startup San Diego team caught up with the 2022 Startup Week Heavyweight Pitch competition winner and Startup Incubator Program Alumni, James Hamet, Founder and CEO of Vistim Labs, to find out how the startup has been doing since the victory and their plans for the future.

Incubator

Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2017

Know your market and competition, or don’t spend a dime on anything else. In this case, the competition was not from a company but a new technology. When I listen to a pitch from an enthusiastic entrepreneur or read the summary of a business plan, one of the first questions I ask is about the strength of the competition.

Competition

TechEmpower

APRIL 21, 2015

Competition for the top position in the JSON-serialization test within the Peak environment has heated up so much that Round 10 sees a more than 100% increase in the top performance versus Round 9 (2.2M Between Round 9 and Round 10, we saw an average of 7 commits per day. Round Frameworks Framework permutations. View Round 10 results now.

Framework

Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2018

Dell’s response would be something like “Quality custom computers more quickly than the competition.” And in this company example, both quality and speed are the critical factors in competitive advantage. Its reputation is based upon fast food in a minute, with quality that is acceptable but not discernibly above the competition.

Competition

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

The venture is also one of the few e-motorcycle companies drawing engineering tips from competition. Track competition is a secondary arena for Energica. But the competition is closing in on some of the Italian EV maker’s numbers. MotoE Worldcup racing, Image Credits: Energica.

Technical Review

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

If you hire truly talented people you end up definitionally with a lot of competitive peers who will inevitably jockey for resources and control. Extremely talented people are ultra competitive. The best leaders are great at hiring in large part because they are inspirational. Marketing of course often feels the opposite.

Entrepreneur

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

They were a little too fierce in their competitive practices against Lyft to sign up drivers. As somebody who has to rub shoulders with big tech companies often I can tell you that there is much blood spilled in the competitive trenches of Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Google and so on. Hardly “evil.” Changes to algorithms.

Press

socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2021

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE, which operates a number of competitions aimed at encouraging advancement in key technology areas, says a Grand Prize Winner has been named in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Competition.

IBM

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Competition for your new hydrogen fuel auto engine is not limited to other hydrogen auto engine offerings, or even other autos. So what are some of the key points that you should highlight in your investor slides to convince investors that you indeed do have a long-term competitive advantage over other alternatives in the marketplace?

Competition

L.A. Business Journal

DECEMBER 5, 2020

has raised $4 million in early stage funding to support a fantasy sports platform for competitive video gaming. Santa Monica-based startup Esports One Inc.

Santa Monica

TechCrunch LA

MAY 29, 2019

The company raised $46 million last year—its first year operating—with the vision that owning the infrastructure for competitions and expanding it to encompass other social elements of gaming can make it the largest gaming company in the world. Eric P: What then drove you to found PlayVS?

Startup

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

You’ll have less competition. Competition is good, but – if there are hundreds of businesses out there that already have gotten to and penetrated this niche – you’re going to find it hard to get through the marketing noise. So, what other benefits are there to niche marketing? Here are just a few to consider….

Marketing

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

I believe that the high revenue share YouTube takes encourages platform competition. I think the market is playing out exactly how I expected and you’ll see increased competition from Amazon, Facebook and Twitter in the years ahead and possibly Tumblr, Vimeo and Pinterest, too. For me this was a simple market analysis.

SEM

Berkonomics

JANUARY 11, 2018

But sometimes there is a barrier, an impossibly high cost not considered, a social backlash never thought of, or competition already covering the idea that is unknown to the originator. Strategic thinking: Board members who ask: “What is the competitive landscape?” Which leads us to the second class of creative board thinking….

Company

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 3, 2015

The rest of our partners, principles, associates and EIRs can weigh in with commentary on their views of the quality of the entrepreneur, the market, the product, competition and so forth. Great leaders are rare and competition for capital, people, press and customers can be brutal. Only the best survive.

Startup

Berkonomics

AUGUST 31, 2023

Know your market and competition, or don’t spend a dime on anything else. In this case, the competition was not from a company but from a new technology. When I listen to a pitch from an enthusiastic entrepreneur or read the summary of a business plan, one of the first questions I ask is about the strength of the competition.

Competition

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 26, 2022

At the time, the company raised $2 million, and Alexandrov said about the perceived competition, “The level of competition in this market in the U.S. is still manageable, which is why we have the opportunity to become leaders in the sphere of fast delivery of basic products and household goods.

Funding

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building?—?and As with all promotions, the reality is that Kara was already acting as a senior leader at our firm and also in the industry at large. She had all of the skills and traits we sought?—?leadership, and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed.

Venture Capital

Berkonomics

JULY 20, 2023

Yet, with the assistance of those in support such as the CFO, everyone in management must be aligned in a single direction, with the budget reviewed and updated annually as accomplishments, the marketplace, and even the competitive landscape change. The post What’s the difference between your budget and forecast?

Resource

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

This is accomplished through aggregated, anonymized competitive benchmarking, market-level performance data across the major social and ad platforms, and curated news and conversation from industry leaders.

Product

Tech.Co

JANUARY 26, 2024

There are just five days left to enter the digital detox competition set up by Icelandic Yogurt company Siggi’s Dairy, which has pledged to give selected contestants $10,000 to spend an entire month “detoxing” without a smartphone or social media.

Company

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2022

The core message is that real innovation and competitive advantage are more people-based than product or process-based. Every good entrepreneur needs a people-centric focus to ferret out creativity and innovation in his team, and to build a sustainable competitive advantage. The “how” is always revealed in time.

Competition

TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

btw: xitca-web (bench code not including dependencies) does not do 2,3,5 and still remains competitive in micro bench can be used as a reference. Context and use case determines how you optimize your code. synopse I have written a blog post about TFB and object pascal - yes, we added our object pascal framework in round 22!

Framework

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

Summary: Send the Deck Pitch decks are sales & marketing decks and like in any sales activity, any great sales person assumes his or her competition will eventually get their deck. Competition isn’t won or lost by your marketing decks?—?it’s it’s won by how you innovate and by how you execute. A deck is a deck. Just send it.

Funding