Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Of course, growth is implied in every focus, and profit enables growth. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with almost three billion user accounts, all free. So let’s take a look.

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Platform Snapchat Startup Course 118

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

A few years ago, I first saw an interesting step in that direction via the classic book “ Entrepreneurial DNA ,” by Joe Abraham , with his assessment web site. 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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Entrepreneur Framework Mentor Web 134

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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UCSD Course Startup Sites 185

Both Sides of the Table

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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Sales Startup Competition Customer 336

Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

Retail or end user web sites aren’t even noticed by potential users or customers without being discovered through a real marketing program, aimed at finding the flywheel effect (the moment of going viral that makes all the difference between failure and success.) Here is my list. First: Planning. Third: cost.

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Sites Product Social Network Press 156

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. 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!]. How do you stand out?”. from the Wharton School.

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Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. Of course, every new direction has some challenges, so the super angel model isn’t perfect. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down. Twenty years ago, it cost several million dollars to launch an e-commerce startup, which can be done today for a few thousand dollars.

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Class 125

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

Of course, it’s always good to speak with conviction, but marketing terms such as “improved productivity” or “lower cost” won’t make your offering memorable. Describe technology and features, not competitiveness. Save the story for a later meeting, after the context and value have been driven home.

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Sample Summary Startup Slides 127

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

Last year at this time I spoke at VidCon and gave this presentation in which I said YouTube was “the Walmart of Online Video” but I also commented that I felt YouTube was vulnerable to competition because their rev share to MCNs wasn’t high enough to allow MCNs to build a profitable business inside of YouTube.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. It’s obvious that we can be too late to these decisions of course. If — and it’s a big if of course — they can do that on the cheap, then why should an LP care at all? Quality tech news from around the web.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Of course, growth is implied in every focus, and profit enables growth. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with well over two billion user accounts, all free. So let’s take a look.

Snapchat 74

Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 74

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Before Iconfinder I was working as a web designer and front-end developer, next to studying computer science and business administration. Back in 2004-2005 I was working as a full-time web designer, where we used KDE (Linux). IconFinder provides high quality icons for webdesigners and developers in an easy and efficient way.

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Design Web Design Google Develop 65

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

This week I wrote about obsessive and competitive founders and how this forms the basis of what I look for when I invest. My first response mentally was, “Of course!” Back then there was no “cloud” so we had to plow money into hardware, software licenses and web hosting.

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Startup Invest Venture Capital Writing 409

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. And maddening.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Hilariously simple tutorials, gaming, Windows 8 real-time, Windows Azure as a virtually unlimited scaling mechanism, and of course, awesome web and mobile possibilities are just a few of the examples you’ll see demonstrated. Despite what you read in the media HTML5 web applications can be extremely powerful and engaging.

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Training Technical Review Technology Software Review 65

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

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!]. If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do, you will have the best experience of your life. You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well.

Blogging 219

Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2012

You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary. They all offer a list of requirements that might take 50 pages to address, but of course they ask you to write concisely. Your competitive advantage. Don’t kill your credibility by saying you have no competition.

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Summary Writing Competition Sample 97

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. Of course, since you know those questions, you can just collect up the answers and provide them to your developers. How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? Of course, it’s never complete. Gap closed, right?

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach 225

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

Of course there’s no exact number of VCs you should meet?—?these As a VC I of course want you to come see only me because that means I have no competition and have time to properly get to know you. even if it’s just a web conference call walk through. Today I want to talk about the process and how to allocate your time.

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Venture Capital Funding Startup Sales 332

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). Think of web vs. mobile. The best way – of course – is to reference check. VCs, how to select a VC, etc.) Most VCs are book smart. Connections?

Venture Capital 364

Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Of course, growth is implied in every focus, and profit enables growth. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with more than a billion user accounts, all free. So let’s take a look.

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Startup Course Yahoo Funding 96

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

It’s a web app that pulls all the content from across your social networks and puts it in one place – your channel. In addition, Web 2.0 was a proliferation of user generated content which created the need for Web 3.0, We love Web 3.0. For competitive reasons, we don’t want to disclose this just yet.

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Social Network Networking Content Web 104

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Of course, growth is implied in every focus, and profit enables growth. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with more than two billion user accounts, all free. So let’s take a look.

Snapchat 55

Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary. They all offer a list of requirements that might take 50 pages to address, but of course they ask you to write concisely. Your competitive advantage. Don’t kill your credibility by saying you have no competition.

Summary 90

Summary Writing Competition Sample 90

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. In industry this is known as “yield management” and of course it needs to exist. And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough. Nice sweep!

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. Of course, every new direction has some challenges, so the Super Angel model isn’t perfect. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down. Twenty years ago, it cost several million dollars to launch an e-commerce startup, which can be done today for a few thousand dollars.

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Angel Funding Startup Venture Capital 104

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Los Angeles-based Radical.FM (www.radical.fm) thinks it has a new formula for Internet streaming, and can take on Pandora and others in head to head competition. It is a bit of a experiment, of course. We now have both Android and iOS coverage, and very soon we''ll be releasing a web app. Explain what Radical.FM

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Startup Services Advertising Content 237

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2012

McGraw-Hill Campus has long been known for its course integration system that allows university faculty access to all of McGraw-Hill Education’s leading educational content and technology right from an institution’s very own learning management system. .” Pathbrite’s Web 2.0 Pathbrite’s Web 2.0

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Education Web 2.0 Course Platform 63

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Of course, growth is implied in every focus, and profit enables growth. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with more than 750 million user accounts, all free. So let’s take a look.

Startup 97

Startup Course Yahoo Invest 97

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

I always tell entrepreneurs, “in good times of course everybody loves their VC. when you missed your targets, when your co-founder quit, when the competition chose your competitor or when the other investors around the table lost confidence? Do a web search to find companies that they didn’t give you. After Sept 08?

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Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur Capital 288

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

The days when you could launch your business with a new web site, and the phone would begin to ring, are long gone. Your product or service is the “what,” and of course, that needs to have a “wow factor” to get above the noise, as well. People are more distracted than ever, and competition has never been greater.

Platform 105

Platform Entrepreneur Startup Social Media 105

InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Thus, you have negotiating leverage as long as a legitimate, competitive threat exists. What matters is how effectively you change course after each mishap. In order to reasonably assess the size of your addressable market, you must perform a bottoms-up analysis which is based on a number of elemental assumptions.

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Entrepreneur Outsource Ideas Technical Review 272

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Think about how many images are on the web. He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S. Perhaps one of the reasons it took 20 years for the commercial web to monetize images is because matching images with content is a very difficult. Millions, billions, trillions?

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Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. Since NewCo has developed 10 online tools and a fabulous web site over the past year, how much would it cost another company to create similar quality tools and web interfaces with a conventional software team?

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Startup Invest Patents Outsource Development 108

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2017

In this age of information overload, success is all about building a brand that stands out above the competition. Of course, she assumes that you are confident and courageous, and willing to capitalize on all your strengths and opportunities to market yourself. Every business community sponsors a plethora of these events.

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Startup Organization Newsletter Content 55

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

The days when you could launch your business with a new web site, and the phone would begin to ring, are long gone. Your product or service is the “what,” and of course, that needs to have a “wow factor” to get above the noise, as well. People are more distracted than ever, and competition has never been greater.

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Startup Social Media Platform Blogging 104