Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2019

Some investors seem to focus wholly on the strengths of the management team, or a sustainable competitive advantage, and in reality these are the core attributes for every funding equation. A startup must form partnerships and alliances within its ecosystem. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. In the business world, we call this finding the right strategic alliances. If you want to be feared. If you want to mate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2013

Some investors seem to focus wholly on the strengths of the management team, or a sustainable competitive advantage, and in reality these are the core attributes for every funding equation. A startup must form partnerships and alliances within its ecosystem. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2012

Some investors seem to focus wholly on the strengths of your management team, or your sustainable competitive advantage, and in reality these are the core attributes for every funding equation. A startup must form partnerships and alliances within its ecosystem. The right partnership strategy can make a company relevant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. In the business world, we call this finding the right strategic alliances. If you want to be feared. If you want to mate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2016

Some investors seem to focus wholly on the strengths of the management team, or a sustainable competitive advantage, and in reality these are the core attributes for every funding equation. A startup must form partnerships and alliances within its ecosystem. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2013

The opportunity for change is huge, with everyone taking a new look at the world after the recession, but the competition is also huge, since the cost of entry is at an all-time low. Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. In the business world, we call this finding the right strategic alliances.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2017

Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. In the business world, we call this finding the right strategic alliances. If you want to be feared. If you want to mate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

For example, IBM , Intel , and other large companies routinely allocate and manage venture funds to invest in startups with new technology that may in fact be competitive with their own. Of course, for a strategic alliance to work, you must take precautions. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2014

Of course, this path involves some risk, but you never get anywhere unless you take a chance. Even the giant General Motors has alliances with smaller competitors, like Peugeot, to reach certain small car segments. Startup founders are known for their passion for their startup idea, and for their passion to kill every competitor.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2011

In contrast, the USSR and other communist nations foolishly banned Monopoly, thereby denying their children (and parents) an inexpensive, yet effective hands-on course in entrepreneurship. Instead, show them that they can increase their odds of success by forming alliances, taking calculated risks and negotiating mutually advantageous deals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2011

For example, IBM , Intel , and other large companies routinely allocate and manage venture funds to invest in startups with new technology that may in fact be competitive with their own. Of course, for a strategic alliance to work, you must take precautions. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

In contrast, the USSR and other communist nations foolishly banned Monopoly, thereby denying their citizens an inexpensive yet effective hands-on course in entrepreneurship. Often, the best deals are the ones in which you form an alliance with another player, to the detriment of all the other players on the board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2016

But in my experience as a startup advisor, too many entrepreneurs get stuck there, and always find excuses for not really exploring mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and alliance alternatives. Of course, they all prefer cash, but some may work for future revenue or startup equity. Investigate strategic alliance alternatives.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The crypto in cryptocurrency is of course referring to cryptography on the ability to encrypt your transactions so they can’t be modified after they have been written to the blockchain. This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

And of course since machinery costs money and lowers the number of people required to produce a product it pitted labor vs. capital. People who failed to industrialize, however well intentioned one’s goals, were at a competitive disadvantage to those who had. It’s actually more complicated than that. And they will eat our lunch.

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