Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2022

In order to be a successful entrepreneur, discipline is a must, and accept your new bosses as investors, partners, and customers. Fire your worst customers. We have all had customers who take advantage of us, to the detriment of other good customers. You’re in no rush to get an MBA. Consider it a waste of time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. The more revolutionary the solution, the more important it is to educate customers on a solution’s existence and value.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Despite that apparent hunger, two scooter operators – Lyft and Spin – recently exited the Los Angeles area, blaming a lack of favorable regulations and too much competition, which apparently made it difficult to turn a profit. Most riders (72%) in the study said they shifted from walking and public transportation, not cars.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. I studied cognitive science, the study of the brain, as an undergraduate. Back to the website, describe who the demographics are of your customers? We're funding things like clean water, education, and other efforts. It's fun an effective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2015

Either they are never really ready to start, study an opportunity until it has passed, or fail with tools and techniques from a bygone business era. The Internet is the problem, by facilitating constant change, and it’s the solution, by providing an absolutely current view of customers, trends, and best practices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2019

In order to be a successful entrepreneur, discipline is a must, and accept your new bosses as investors, partners, and customers. Fire your worst customers. We have all had customers who take advantage of us, to the detriment of other good customers. You’re in no rush to get an MBA. Consider it a waste of time.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Startup Customer Custom 92

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

They don’t realize that knocking competitors is assessed as a weakness and denying that you have any competition suggests there is no market for your solution. Smart investors, competitors and smart customers, will listen and watch carefully as you position your new offering. Use real case studies and customer feedback.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. All-Star Alumni. Am I biased?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2016

Either they are never really ready to commit, study an opportunity until it has passed, or fail with tools and techniques from a bygone business era. The Internet is the problem, by facilitating constant change, and it’s the solution, by providing an absolutely current view of customers, trends, and best practices.

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Entrepreneur Social Media Startup Education 61

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

One of these bright lights is Santa Barbara-based HG Data - developers of the world's largest competitive-intelligence database. <Note: Diversity on all levels, be it ideas, education, background, gender, ethnicity or otherwise, is critical to our growth. The Power of a Diverse Workforce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business Running a small business as an entrepreneur is a never-ending challenge of new products, customers, competitors, and an unpredictable economy. They forget that they became entrepreneurs, according to the “ DNA of an Entrepreneur ” study a while back, for just this flexibility. Beat the competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2017

In order to be a successful entrepreneur, discipline is a must, and accept your new bosses as investors, partners, and customers. Fire your worst customers. We have all had customers who take advantage of us, to the detriment of other good customers. You’re in no rush to get an MBA. Consider it a waste of time.

Entrepreneur 71

Entrepreneur Startup Customer Custom 71

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

In order to be a successful entrepreneur, discipline is a must, and accept your new bosses as investors, partners, and customers. Fire your worst customers. We have all had customers who take advantage of us, to the detriment of other good customers. You’re in no rush to get an MBA. Consider it a waste of time.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Startup Customer Custom 107

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In reality, diversity in a startup can be your big competitive advantage. Quantification studies still show more mixed results. Your startup, for example, will more likely see and understand sooner the needs and wants of a larger and more diverse customer base. In today’s highly competitive environment, that can be decisive.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2011

As I note in MBA Education and Other Oxymorons entry, my roommates and I hosted a weekly poker game while attending Wharton. Many of the entrepreneurial lessons I learned from this adjunct Wharton study group, you too can share with your children. Poker Face . “It The same is true with poker. Seven Card Entrepreneurial Stud.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2013

Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that the initial idea is the easy part, and it’s the later implementation, and the competitive business marketing that are the real creative challenges. Many businesses have found that raising the price of a product to give it status can win more customers than a price war. Think the unthinkable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2013

In order to be a successful entrepreneur, discipline is a must, and accept your new bosses as investors, partners, and customers. Fire your worst customers. We have all had customers who take advantage of us, to the detriment of other good customers. You’re in no rush to get an MBA. Consider it a waste of time.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Customer Custom 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2012

Translating that into business value, a study by Wirthlin Worldwide concluded that 80% of customers still base a good portion of their buy decision on their perception of that firm’s ethics. At the base of these are moral values, but in my view most of the rest are gleaned from experience, parents, and formal education.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that the initial idea is the easy part, and it’s the later implementation, and the competitive business marketing that are the real creative challenges. Many businesses have found that raising the price of a product to give it status can win more customers than a price war. Think the unthinkable.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Patents Training 109

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2011

Translating that into business value, a study by Wirthlin Worldwide concluded that 80% of customers still base a good portion of their buy decision on their perception of that firm’s ethics. At the base of these are moral values, but in my view most of the rest are gleaned from experience, parents, and formal education.

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Startup Coach Satisfaction Customer 91

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. You’re right.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Our civic center actually had to upgrade their broadband because we needed a really good Wi-Fi with the competition being done on computers. On the final night of the competition, Visit Rapid City treated competitors, coaches, and parents to a reception at Crazy Horse Memorial. We were able to get all that accomplished.”.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The majority of our users are highly educated, young professionals between 25-39 years of age. While studying at university, one of the founders had a girlfriend who lived in another city. Any competition back home? The service can be accessed by computer, mobile phone ( iPhone , Android ) or social network ( Facebook ).

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Training Marketing Competition Platform 82

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2012

Business Development (BD) worked on a business plan, market research and customer validation. We were all in such a high for winning the competition!!! We kept pivoting our ideas to so many things to figure out our business model. I went up in front of the room with my team, and we were so ecstatic.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Stop Listening to Your Customers. A common assumption among startup entrepreneurs is that listening to potential customers is the best. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Customers, research, startups. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, education, MBA. . How to (Ethically) Profit From Your Customer's Insecurities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Brown, who has been studying and writing about business leaders for many years for Forbes, BusinessWeek, and Inc. Find and sell your unique competitive advantages. If you don’t highlight your competitive advantages , no one else will. If you don’t highlight your competitive advantages , no one else will.

Entrepreneur 127

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Brown, who has been studying and writing about business leaders for many years for Forbes, BusinessWeek, and Inc. Find and sell your unique competitive advantages. If you don’t highlight your competitive advantages , no one else will. If you don’t highlight your competitive advantages , no one else will.

Entrepreneur 116

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2015

Brown, who has been studying and writing about business leaders for many years for Forbes, BusinessWeek, and Inc. Find and sell your unique competitive advantages. If you don’t highlight your competitive advantages , no one else will. If you don’t highlight your competitive advantages , no one else will.

Entrepreneur 105

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2014

Brown, who has been studying and writing about business leaders for many years for Forbes, BusinessWeek, and Inc. Find and sell your unique competitive advantages. If you don’t highlight your competitive advantages , no one else will. If you don’t highlight your competitive advantages , no one else will.

Entrepreneur 110

Entrepreneur Mentor Study Competition 110

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2018

Brown, who has been studying and writing about business leaders for many years for Forbes, BusinessWeek, and Inc. Find and sell your unique competitive advantages. If you don’t highlight your competitive advantages , no one else will. If you don’t highlight your competitive advantages , no one else will.

Entrepreneur 64

Entrepreneur Mentor Competition Study 64

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves). No, that IS NOT a competitive advantage - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 12, 2010 This is part 1 of the series: 5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

They thought factories were a threat to custom assembly of products and ultimately to the agrarian way of life (as more people were moving to urban environments). People who failed to industrialize, however well intentioned one’s goals, were at a competitive disadvantage to those who had.

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