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7 Keys To Business Transformation To Meet Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

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.

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Can you defend your pricing niche against your competition?

Berkonomics

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.

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5 Keys To Achieving Memorable Competitive Distinction

Startup Professionals Musings

Differentiation is still a key requirement for a successful startup rollout, and but it must be sustainable to keep ahead of new competition. Of course, working on perception can backfire if the differentiation reality isn’t there. In my view both of these numbers have come down recently.

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6 Keys To Convince Investors Of Your Competitive Edge

Startup Professionals Musings

Most entrepreneurs are quick to assert to potential investors that their product or solution will kill the competition, but unfortunately your opinion alone is not enough to convince most experienced investors. Of course, we all know there are no guarantees, and we like your passion and commitment to future results.

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How To Change The Course Of Your Business Gracefully

Startup Professionals Musings

It happens on the front end for startups to get traction, and then again later for every company as the economy, competition, and culture changes around them. In all cases, it’s more effective and less painful to do it as a planned process, rather than a crash course in survival.

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Interview with Fariborz Maseeh, Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition

socalTECH

Last week, the University of Southern California 's Viterbi School of Engineering announced that it had established a new, business plan competition, the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition ([link] specifically aimed at students in the engineering school. Why a business plan competition, and why in engineering school?

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8 Keys To Attracting More Talent Than The Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, as you work with contract players, explore the potential for a long-term relationship, and wait until your organization matures to pursue career positions. That means starting your search through contract services sites, rather than conventional career hiring sites. Focus on a very flat organization, with minimal hierarchy.