socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Western Digital , the data storage maker which has a significant chunk of its operations in Irvine, has been backing climate research efforts with a competition called the Data for Climate Action Challenge , which WD is showcasing at the upcoming COP23 climate change conference.

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Berkonomics

JULY 27, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] This is not to bend this insight into a claim that a company should wait to develop new, groundbreaking products and services until a customer asks for them. All companies whether service or product-oriented must fight to gain and maintain quality of product, or fall to the bottom of the competitive heap.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2017

I rarely attend startup pitch competitions anymore. But a startup contest held Tuesday at a machine learning conference in Cambridge, MA, put a twist on the typical scenario: the startups were judged by an artificial intelligence software program, instead of a panel of investors.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 31, 2011

Thousand Oaks-based Xirrus , the developer of wireless access points, reported Tuesday that it has deployed its products at the International Centre in Mississauga, Ontario. The center said it selected Xirrus due to the grater range and throughput than competitive access points. Size and financial terms of the win were not announced.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2011

PayDivvy , unveiled today at the Finovate Conference in San Francisco, was conceived a few years ago while Mike Melby was attending the Wharton School of Business. His idea and subsequent business plan won the Wharton Venture Award in 2009 and was a finalist for the Wharton Business Plan Competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2016

Modern-society is also littered with over-networkers and over-introducers and professional conference attendees. It’s hard enough building a valuable product or service in competitive global markets without spending time on unproductive tasks. Focus is almost always the right answer. It’s human nature to try and be helpful to others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

The concept of “ force multipliers ” originally was developed in military science, but certainly applies equally well to business. Participate in industry conferences and expositions. Finally, key national conferences will show you improvements you need to make in areas that can create multipliers without breaking your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2013

In my first enterprise software company we developed a methodology for sales that we called PUCCKA , which I wrote about previously. So I often work with teams to get them to codify the key things they do well that the competition does not. The first post covered the topic of “P” or pain. So what’s next?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2017

XPRIZE , the Los Angeles nonprofit which promotes development of new technology to help solve world problems, has whittled down the number of teams competing in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE , focused on using AI to world's greatest challenges.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

BlackTech Week was created in 2014, and in four short years, they’ve gained over 2700 participants, 150 speakers, and 3 pitch competitions. Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation (Fargo, ND). While winning pitch competitions is great, it’s not the most important thing about Startup of the Year.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

If you are like us, a huge number of the conference calls you participate in are enabled by a company called FreeConferenceCall.com , which has enabled free conference calls for millions of startups and large businesses alike. But, how can the company offer up free conference calling services, and what''s the story behind the service?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 29, 2014

We’ve got an exciting and innovative group of companies coming together for this event,” Kyle Ellicott, Co-Founder/CTO of Wearable World and the GLAZED Conference said. Developers interested in participating can register interest at bit.ly/wwinvent.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. You get a lot of traffic — not always results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2023

People making a request may not understand your budget limitations, current workload, or competitive pressures. Rejection without giving a context implies an unreasonable request or a problem with the requestor. In this context, you can also make an encouraging statement about future requests. Say yes to the person and no to the task.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

To build it, weve hired some amazing people, including Nick Kim, who is now leading platform development at Crosscut. So far, under Nicks leadership, weve built sourcing and pipeline management systems, a portfolio growth and development platform, and a job board to serve the entire city named Interchange. After leaving News Corp.,

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Though the Alliance is still committed to hosting select regional convenings like First Look SoCal and our SoCal Ecosystem Leadership Conference, we recognize that the region already is filled with numerous events targeted at start-ups and entrepreneurs. The start-up has developed kinetic energy based, long-duration energy storage solutions.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

TechCo and CES teamed up again for 2018 to showcase innovative startups from Eureka Park before the conference begins. Both companies will be automatically fast tracked into the Top 100 semifinalists at the 2018 Startup of the Year competition which takes place during the Innovate Celebrate conference this fall. 2nd Bartesian.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

Here are the key elements of the strengths framework they have developed, with my own insights and experience added for your consideration: Money: the capital you have, or can easily raise. Fortunately, you can develop this skill. I recommend that you get more visible at industry conferences and on social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2021

People making a request may not understand your budget limitations, current workload, or competitive pressures. Rejection without giving a context implies an unreasonable request or a problem with the requestor. In this context, you can also make an encouraging statement about future requests. Say yes to the person and no to the task.

Tips 159

Tips Startup Entrepreneur Conference 159

socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Mahalo, is planning some direct competition to Michael Arrington's technology blog empire, TechCrunch , according to a report today from the Guardian. According to the report, Calacanis is developing a property called Launch , which will focus on deep analysis of companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The challenge is how to develop that self-leadership in every aspiring entrepreneur and business professional role. This may mean attending industry conferences, taking college courses, or reading some key books. Steve Jobs famously is quoted as saying, "Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice."

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The question is how we develop our future role and potential, while satisfying all the business and personal demands on our time today. 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. Make the investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Here are some key strategies that I recommend to every worker today: Develop and highlight your competitive differentiation. Today, customers and future managers put a higher value on relationships, and expect to know you from industry conferences, social media, or recommendations from peers. Develop the courage to move on.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

Entrepreneurs can emulate de la Guerra’s strategy and make their adVenture appear far larger than reality and thus increasing its influence and market reach while discouraging competitive threats by creating an industry alliance. We hosted an annual user conference in Santa Barbara, attended by a couple hundred of the world’s top surgeons.

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Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Startup Conference 168

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

By following the crowdfunding campaigns of others, you can learn much about what types of ideas and solutions are attractive to customers, and also understand some new ways to raise money in todays competitive world. Attend industry and investor meetings and conferences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2019

To me, that means treating your career more like a business than a job – with a continual and global focus on keeping up with competition, finding customers, preparing for changes ahead, and taking responsibility for your own finances. The simple answer is that we all have to start thinking like entrepreneurs, rather than entitled employees.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Image via Wikipedia The challenge for all of us in business is to improve competitiveness by improving employee productivity and reducing costs. Sometimes this means working on less defined tasks, raising their level of autonomy, or requiring the development of new skills.

Tips 96

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

If I’m covering a company can I get evidence of what the competition is doing so the story is balanced? We provide strategic advice to digital media companies in a manner that reflects how corporate development is actually done. Plus they run conferences with the top people (which is another form of POV marketing by the way).

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Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 That died with waterfall software development. What about your competition – how much do they charge? Do so at your peril.

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Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

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Incubator Startup Resource Seed Funding 87

Berkonomics

MARCH 10, 2010

Email readers continue here.] This is not to bend this insight into a claim that a company should wait to develop new, groundbreaking products and services until a customer asks for them. Together we would work out solutions in the form of new functions, new controls, new reports, and new safeguards.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

It’s why in this article I advise that people “market today not futures” because you don’t want your playbook in the hands of the competition. You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation.

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Press Startup Writing Training 319

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

Ben Satterfield is the co-founder of TestFlight, an immensely popular piece of software for iOS (and now Android) which lets developers distribute beta copies of their apps to their users. TestFlight recently joined forces with Burstly (www.burstly.com) to create a suite of apps for mobile developers and publishers. What is Burstly?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

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