Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2020

Of course, it’s smart not to stray too far from your core competency for credibility and risk reduction. Don’t be the next Xerox who totally missed the personal computer market, even though they had the technology and the processes well before Apple, IBM, and others. Expand into key new sales and delivery channels.

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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 summary, whether you are running a startup, a family business, or a famous brand like IBM, you are all part of the jungle.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2015

You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. 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.

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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 summary, whether you are running a startup, a family business, or a famous brand like IBM, you are all part of the jungle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. 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.

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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. That’s the good news and the bad news. If you want to be feared.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other. Of course, more resources are “better” for marketing, but re-allocating existing resources can be equally effective. The answer is yes to all, and the challenge is how to choose how much of each, and how to integrate them for maximum impact and the least cost.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest , former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), Co-Founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!].

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2014

You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. 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.

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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 summary, whether you are running a startup, a family business, or a famous brand like IBM, you are all part of the jungle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other. Of course, more resources are “better” for marketing, but re-allocating existing resources can be equally effective. The answer is yes to all, and the challenge is how to choose how much of each, and how to integrate them for maximum impact and the least cost.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

Sure, you need to be competitive on price. Of course that’s not true. Sales people will always tell you how far ahead the competition is. That stuff is for Oracle or IBM. They buy on perceived value. Otherwise you need not keep building out great features – just always drop your price! You’re a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2016

Fortunately, I’ve had the opportunity to work and learn for many years in both the corporate environment (IBM), as well as the exploding Silicon Valley startup environment of the 90’s. As an introvert and a techy, I know well the challenges of building relationships in today’s competitive world.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. Not IBM, HP, Accenture, Cisco, Salesforce.com or anybody else. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. That little online book company.

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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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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. It gives them an escalation path only dealing with us.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Sure, you need to be competitive on price. Of course that’s not true. Sales people will always tell you how far ahead the competition is. That stuff is for Oracle or IBM. They buy on perceived value. Otherwise you need not keep building out great features – just always drop your price! You’re a startup.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2010

Due in large part to the current economy and an ultra-competitive job market, a Gen-Y entrepreneurial tsunami is already upon us. And today, more than 2,000 colleges and universities offer entrepreneurship courses – up from the just 70 schools that Boomers and Gen-X had to choose from in 1970.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

Focus simply means launching your first and most memorable initiative where you see a unique skill and experience fit, your best competitive positioning with the least risk, and the greatest potential return. Now, of course, they all do much more, but those things came later. Realistically characterize the competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Of course I have. He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. And of course you need a mature venture capital industry. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. I’m in Seattle this week. Can’t list them all.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The latest big-company addition was Ginni Rometty , who was promoted into both top titles at IBM in 2012. Distinguishing traits of male leaders are autonomy, independence, and competition, while those of women are relations, interdependence, and cooperation. Both have their advantages. Operational style. Business relationship style.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Assume competition and assume within the buying organization you have enemies. When we went to raise funds we faced lots of competition as there are of course many other VC funds in the country. ” (effectively a “nobody ever got fired for buying IBM” sort of argument). Take nothing for granted.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

One guy was the creator of Microsoft Excel and the other created the first network for IBM. (No, The interesting thing is that we never looked at our competition, we never did any kind of competitive analysis on the products we wanted to be leaders, so we acted like leaders – we focused on our customers, not our competition.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Timing your startup - Chris Dixon , November 7, 2010 I never had the opportunity to invest in YouTube but I have to admit that if I did I probably would have passed (which of course would have been a huge mistake). Has nothing changed since the early days of IBM? If network B has 20 users than it’s value is 400 (20*20). So what gives?

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