Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. Successful startup teams today have a mix of remote employees, freelancers, and contractors.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building?—?and and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. Of course we can’t. There are of course many Seed VCs who take board seats, don’t over-commit to too many deals and try to help with “company building” activities to help at a company’s vulnerable foundations. Hot, Flat & Crowded.” of the fund.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2023

It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. A smart entrepreneur learns to embrace failure as a badge of learning that provides a competitive edge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. Over 600,000 new businesses were created in the last year, or over one per minute of every day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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DECEMBER 26, 2010

Competition. And the reality is that if you have no competition it will likely be perceived as a negative, not positive. And the reality is that if you have no competition it will likely be perceived as a negative, not positive. Here’s some thoughts on the competition slide and also how to talk about it: Competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

Of course, such actions are equally applicable to businesses at any stage. Amazingly, I still find that many small businesses still don’t use any social media, much less appear on a range of platforms. I recommend some presence on two or three platforms. Get interactive with online users and customer feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

His framework seems to be picking up some traction, and is already in use informally by several entrepreneurship platforms, universities, and even high school programs. These are the ultimate chess players in the game of business, always looking to be two or three moves ahead of the competition. Opportunist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

Sponsor some friendly competitive events with prizes. Elon Musk and Tesla made their battery patents available to anyone, to clear the path for market infrastructure growth and compatibility, which of course benefits Tesla. Think of these as the future version of the old “computer clubs,” or today’s multi-player game platforms.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

As the school year kicks off for college students, one of the big tasks of the year is buying books for their courses. What our site does, instead, is it integrates directly with a student course schedule, so you can just enter your course, and it automated the process of buying all of your books simultaneously.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2020

It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. A smart entrepreneur learns to embrace failure as a badge of learning that provides a competitive edge.

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APRIL 18, 2019

They also were exclusive to Bird so they gave the company a competitive advantage. Of course it takes time to roll out new scooters and replace existing inventory but this is already having a dramatic effect on the underlying business. They had better performance, better handling and importantly better battery lives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” Is it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or one of the other 200 active platforms vying for attention these days? Keep up with the competition. You can’t ignore the fact that Facebook now has over 1.86

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JUNE 20, 2013

The reason for this is that the executives who founded the company have so much tacit knowledge of how to position their product relative to the competition that they can easily win campaigns when they’re involved. So I often work with teams to get them to codify the key things they do well that the competition does not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2013

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” Is it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or one of the other 200 active platforms vying for attention these days? Keep up with the competition. United Airlines is still recovering from that debacle.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

Ability to source information easily to help build a thesis around companies / industries / competition. And we’ve begun relaunching our “platform services” for entrepreneurs. Ability to manage and prioritize large amounts of tasks since you’ll get many things thrown at you from various directions.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. If you can’t out-Amazon Amazon, then move on and do something else.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Learning experience includes: on-demand online video tutorial courses, live video-conference workshops, as well as individual online consultations, live workshops, and group programs. Creators can take any course of interest on-demand by purchasing it through our website. How does it work? Take us through your features?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. Could we really build a generalize platform and assemble the data in a cost effective way? Of course, there was so little competition back then so it easier to find uncharted territory.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This statement leaves no confusion in the minds of investors, or customers, of what the company does and how it is different (and better) than the competition. Of course, now that you have investor attention, the devil is in the details. Of course, we all prefer billion dollar opportunities, with double-digit growth rates.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal. Nguyen is founder and CMO of Fanhouse , a creator platform that just raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz. . And of course, those startups are by no means innocent when it comes to bad management. “If

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MARCH 14, 2013

If I’m covering a company can I get evidence of what the competition is doing so the story is balanced? ” Of course not. Now of course there’s a lot more that goes into building a brand like the fact that the founders of Luma have long reputations in our industry and people respect them. More strategic.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

AngelList 101 : As you know, AngelList is a platform where angels can invest in semi-screened tech deals. Therefore of course they need to be more selection when writing checks and can’t spread their bets across 75 deals. Of course the same goes with traditional VCs. Of course the same goes with traditional VCs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

According to many experts, including Michael Hyatt, in his new book, “ Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World ,” you need to build the highest platform you can, to stand out and be heard above all the rest. If these are not complete and consistent, your platform will always be splintered and lost in the noise.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

Could we really build a generalize platform and assemble the data in a cost effective way? 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!]. Of course, there was so little competition back then so it easier to find uncharted territory.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” Is it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or one of the other 200 active platforms vying for attention these days? Keep up with the competition. United Airlines is still recovering from that debacle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Energy Vault has recently attracted a lot of attention including >$100m from Cemex Ventures and Softbank (of course in todays climate that might not be the stamp of approval that it was 6 months ago) and apparently has a promising pipeline of commercial customers. Verizon, and Wells Fargo just to mention a few.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

In a world that is hyper competitive – even amongst VCs – I can honestly say that not only is the media recognition accurate but it is amongst the proudest days I’ve had in developing Upfront Ventures and our future. Invest more heavily in platform services. ” Numero uno. I was nowhere to be found.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2015

It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. A smart entrepreneur learns to embrace failure as a badge of learning that provides a competitive edge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support.

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Tech.Co

JULY 18, 2016

Startup of the Year competition, which will be held in San Jose, CA during the Innovate! This year, we’ve partnered with the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) – which produces the CES – for the global conference that will bring together tech leaders, influencers, investors, and of course, early-stage startup companies.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

That''s where we entered the scene, as a platform for that particular type of organization. Ann Wang: Thanks to the recent Forbes competition, and a lot of momentum from that, we actually are opening up a round for seed funding in the next month or two. How do you work with those organizations? What''s your big goal now?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2016

Course corrections, or pivots, are normal for new ventures, so expect them and don’t make excuses. Change competitive positioning and pricing to improve traction. Of course, a move on price also puts them in the realm of new competitors, including e-commerce vendors and big-box stores.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Of course you know Gangnam Style , which is now the most viewed video in history at 1.3 I called this trend “ Torso TV ” because the “head” of consumption (largest number of views) was dominated by platforms that had massive distribution (think TV stations, radio or retail outlets that sell CDs and DVDs.

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