Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2012

They forget that they probably became entrepreneurs, according to a recent DNA of an Entrepreneur study, for just this flexibility. Other studies show that only about 30% list money as a key benefit of running their own firm. Beat the competition. Competition drives innovation, and innovation drives competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2014

They forget that they became entrepreneurs, according to the “ DNA of an Entrepreneur ” study a while back, for just this flexibility. Other studies show that only about 30% list money as a key benefit of running their own firm. Beat the competition. Competition drives innovation, and innovation drives competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

While the authors mission is broader in intent, to provide a roadmap for customer-centered innovation, they definitely codify the principles I espouse in anticipating the primary obstacles to new solution adoption. Every customer has a sense of what a solution should cost, based on competition, and the cost of doing nothing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Open your pitch by grabbing the investor's attention with a statement or question that piques their interest, then hit the following key bases: Definition of customer problem, followed by your solution. Opportunity segmentation and competitive environment. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rock Prodigy is an intelligent iOS app and offers definitive, interactive, fun beginner guitar course of 150+ lessons/practice exercises with video tutorials through 49-day calendar that you can follow at your own pace. How It Works. it’s like a video game! Winning the USC’s Silicon Beach Awards however is not their only accomplishment.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2014

However, if you’re looking for something new or exciting that’s not the typical 9 to 5 rat race, working in a startup is definitely something you should consider. Working at large, well-known companies definitely look great on your resume, but startups offer something very valuable: a wide set of skills beyond your job description.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. In fact, the incumbent is usually very dismissive of this new competition as our the large buyers of the incumbent’s products.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

The more specific you can get in your definition the better. And often these contracts don’t prohibit you from marketing to competitors so you can often start to build your future pipeline while not immediately selling to the competition. Geography Bound – Finally, another natural limiter for you will be geography.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2021

Of course, we would all like to have a magic list based on more definitive tracking of many real startups over time. In that context, I came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

They help find talented film makers globally, enter them into competitions and advance the best of them toward winners that get to produce full-length films. The production quality is terrible” I say, “ Please study The Innovator’s Dilemma because it predicts the disruption of your industry presciently.”

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Definitely engaging with bloggers is a great way to get things going. Here's a ballpark derived from various research studies on the click through rate for positions 1-10 in Google. You can promote your site all over the place. By the way – getting links in social media – mentions on twitter, links on Facebook.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

While studying at university, one of the founders had a girlfriend who lived in another city. Any competition back home? All over Europe, there are hundreds of carpooling platforms at a regional level but actually we believe that our biggest competition comes from bus and train companies. What inspired them?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

My first job was in fitness and I even competed in body building competitions from ’97 to ’99. Studies have proven that a strong network of friends that are into fitness, have helped each other become more fit than others. That person will not only just look bad, there is also no muscle definition and he/she will look sickly thin.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A recent study by Nielsen showed that an average American adult spend some 34 hours per month using mobile internet on smartphones compared to 27 hours via personal computer. The competition has gone mobile and by the looks of it, it will probably stay there for a long time. Branding with an app.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context. Call out your top competitors, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantage, including patents, trade secrets. and trademarks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2021

Marketing is necessary via social media, traditional media, and personal visibility, to attract customers, loyalty, and a competitive brand image. If you like to study things over and over again, or are prone to second-guessing your decisions, the entrepreneur lifestyle may not be for you. Entrepreneurs must react and recover quickly.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

This is an example of AI that can understand humans, in both competitive and supportive roles. We’re definitely moving in the direction of “ambient intelligence” across the Internet of Things, where all of your devices participate in predicting your needs and delivering solutions proactively. Alaoui: Both.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2013

Of course, we would all like to have a magic list based on more definitive tracking of many real startups over time. In that context, I came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2012

Of course, we would all like to have a magic list based on more definitive tracking of many real startups over time. In that context, I recently came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Of course, we would all like to have a magic list based on more definitive tracking of many real startups over time. In that context, I recently came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

I pointed out that when you become a partner in a VC firm almost by definition you’ve seen years of businesses that failed or concepts that didn’t quite work. Kara and I discussed what we thought that meant to each of us. So you become jaded. Startup Lessons'

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

How much competition is there in this space with people like Oracle, SAP, etc? Our wonderful reputation has definitely been an impetus for growth. Another thing is the ROI studies we've had done outside our firm by Nucleus Research. Those independent ROI studies show a very, immediate payback on getting this kind of software.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Mark made a fortune by being early in Local Area Networking, streaming and then High Definition video so perhaps it’s worth listening. And he believes with less companies going public there is less competition. Or Oculus or twitch went public there would be more competition and he believes that as a country this isn’t good for us.

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