Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2021

By definition, true innovations are things we haven’t seen yet, but here are a few pricing alternatives that have contributed to the success of companies I know, and I recommend for evaluation by every business leader: Charging a premium for your technology innovation. Offering a lower price to penetrate the market.

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Pricing Startup Competition Examples 145

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2020

Because the product plan is aimed internally, it can assume the reader has the relevant technology and jargon background. Technology, architecture, and feature descriptions. Opportunity segmentation and competitive environment. A product plan is never a substitute for a business plan. Quality testing and approval processes.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Startup Summary Product 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Health, life, and other insurance at group rates.

Organization 92

Organization Incubator Startup Resource 92

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The more potentially disruptive your technology, the more important it is that this message be quick, simple, and quantified. Will the solution give you an “unfair competitive advantage,” meaning no competitor already has it, or can replicate your solution without your skills or intellectual property. Do include some quantification.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2012

I often hear the qualms of business-smart but non-technical entrepreneurs, wondering if they really have a chance in this high-technology marketplace. I tell them that if their idea or solution is technology intensive, they clearly need technology strength on the team. It definitely works, but may be beyond your budget.

Technical Review 92

Technical Review Technology Startup Outsource Development 92

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

In this world of constant change, new technologies, and a thousand cultures, it’s evident and somehow comforting to me that the basic rules for business prosperity really haven’t changed in the last hundred years. Business success is still more about the people than the technology or idea involved. Applied faith.

Technical Review 119

Technical Review Ideas Entrepreneur Customer 119

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Health, life, and other insurance at group rates.

Resource 159

Resource Startup Incubator Seed Funding 159

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Music Prodigy , a Los Angeles based music education technology firm serious on improving the way people learn, play and interact with music beat over 70 startups with their app Rock Prodigy to win the Silicon Beach Awards. The post Music Prodigy Beats 70 Startups To Bring Music Education Technology to the Masses appeared first on TechZulu.

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Education Startup Technology Patents 106

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Starting an entrepreneurial business, or maintaining the competitiveness of a mature business, requires innovation. As a starting point, I like the Wikipedia simple definition of innovation as “the application of better solutions to meet new requirements or market needs.”

Organization 94

Organization Ideas Technical Review Research 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2021

Starting an entrepreneurial business, or maintaining the competitiveness of a mature business, requires innovation. As a starting point, I like the Wikipedia simple definition of innovation as “the application of better solutions to meet new requirements or market needs.”

Organization 172

Organization Ideas Technical Review Research 172

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2022

From an investor perspective, understanding and acting early to establish a sustainable competitive advantage, and barrier to entry, is the best assurance of a financial return. By definition, entrepreneurs need to love the art of the start, and that love needs to come across as part of the first impression you deliver to any investor.

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Entrepreneur Social Media Patents Mentor 111

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal. Watson, who holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has raised $4.5 There definitely have been, but the room to recover is completely limited.”. The idea of the “girlboss” today is shrouded in privilege.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

In this world of constant change, new technologies, and a thousand cultures, it’s evident and somehow comforting to me that the basic rules for business prosperity really haven’t changed in the last hundred years. Business success is still more about the people than the technology or idea involved. Applied faith.

Technical Review 126

Technical Review Ideas Entrepreneur Customer 126

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 12, 2009

Technorati and WeSay has partnered up to launch a photo competition based on the Sweep Panorama feature. They provided us with a WX1 to review and help promote the competition. The technology behind the "Intelligent Auto Adjustment" feature is as easy as it gets. Will be awesome for the journalism department!

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Competition Orange County Technical Review Southern California 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

In that critical first minute, no one needs to hear that you have a passionate dream of changing the world, introducing new disruptive technology, or a product with more features than competitors. The best hook for snagging an investor is a succinct definition of a real problem, followed by your unique solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The rules of business and technology are changing rapidly, and the pace of change is only accelerating. I believe these insights can and must be extended to you and your career, in line with the following guiding principles: Make your interest in learning your competitive advantage. Define personalized learning goals with a timetable.

Examples 85

Examples Social Media Competition Guide 85

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2020

From an investor perspective, understanding and acting early to establish a sustainable competitive advantage, and barrier to entry, is the best assurance of a financial return. By definition, entrepreneurs need to love the art of the start, and that love needs to come across as part of the first impression you deliver to any investor.

Entrepreneur 126

Entrepreneur Social Media Patents Mentor 126

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Obviously, some of this is just about technology--such as search engine optimization--and I think lots of readers are initially finding us through social media and search--but I also think that as the find a channel they are most interested in, they are coming back. Is this competitive with Modern Mom? Also, we have lots of content.

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Networking Social Media Startup Search Engine Optimization 230

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I cannot recommend it enough for people in the technology or media sectors. 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. It is often LESS performant. So what did happen?

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Startup Framework Marketing Customer 376

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. The terms “CTO&# and “VP Engineering&# have such stigmas associated with what they are that I’m sure some people will feel uncomfortable with the definitions I’ve put forward.

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CTO Hire Fractional VPE Startup Outsource Development 400

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

These are industries where structural impediments to technology adoption have only recently been broken down by the advent of incredibly powerful mobile devices. As Fifth Wall’s newest partner Greg Smithies noted last year, there’s a massive opportunity in building retrofits and startup technologies to improve efficiency.

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Startup Technical Review Invest Research 229

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2014

Because the product plan is aimed internally, it can assume the reader has the relevant technology and jargon background. Technology, architecture, and feature descriptions. Opportunity segmentation and competitive environment. A product plan is never a substitute for a business plan. Quality testing and approval processes.

Product 101

Product Entrepreneur Summary Activity 101

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2016

The technology was licensed from a European company, which also provided the start-up funding. The team succeeded in all functional areas, but we found it difficult to generate sales for our new and innovative technology. I was the founder of a hardware company in the communication space.

Startup 99

Startup Marketing Competition Software 99

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Health, life, and other insurance at group rates.

Incubator 87

Incubator Startup Resource Seed Funding 87

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

It is with this backdrop that I was really happy to learn from my friend Ethan Anderson (HBS alum & founder of RedBeacon) about an awesome program at HBS run by Tom Eisenmann called Launching Technology Ventures. My list of excuses includes: product, pricing, competition and lack of sales support.

Startup 319

Startup Sales Course Competition 319

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2012

WE want you to discover what you're looking for, but also to explore and learn about new products, technology, and industries. Those are growing much more rapidly than technology products. Is Amazon's marketplace the largest competition for what you're doing? Neel Grover: We definitely have a fair amount of independence.

Sites 210

Sites Commerce Pricing Product 210

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Health, life, and other insurance at group rates.

Incubator 106

Incubator Startup Help Resource 106

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. They are the lifeblood of many companies yet they are different than the traditional technology startup DNA so the ways that you hire, motivate, compensate and assess performance of these individuals will be different. My first startup was no different.

Sales 382

Sales Help Startup Pricing 382

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

Even technology solutions with a large intuitive value, such as a cure for cancer, need hype for visibility, education, side-effect considerations and to avoid a scam label. Marketing acceptance, especially for new technologies, actually goes through several predictable stages, called the hype cycle , as outlined by Gartner research.

Startup 97

Startup Marketing Entrepreneur Social Network 97

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

Early-stage investors in technology startups are only looking for growth-oriented companies that can achieve an “exit&# someday – either via selling your company to a larger company or via an IPO. while acknowledging that San Fran deals are often higher valuations due to increased competition amongst investors.

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Startup Pricing Technical Review Marketing 336

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2016

For a software startup, a patent can be the intellectual property providing the key competitive advantage, or it can be an expensive non-defensible bureaucratic nightmare -- or both. That’s more than a lifetime in today’s technology. Patent offices can’t keep up with software technology. Even if you start with the U.S.

Patents 53

Patents Software Review Software Technical Advisors 53

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The buy puts ReachLocal squarely into the fast growing area of daily deals, but also potentially into competition with such companies as Groupon and LivingSocial. It's definitely a different level of scale. They have the technology suite, which helps us to connect to those partners. We are extremely well positioned.

ReachLocal 249

ReachLocal Woodland Hills Acquisition Advertising 249

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. Ideally the solution embodies intellectual property that you own, giving you a sustainable competitive advantage. Will you be selling to businesses or consumers, or both?

.Net 73

.Net Examples Customer Custom 73

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2016

Because the product plan is aimed internally, it can assume the reader has the relevant technology and jargon background. Technology, architecture, and feature descriptions. Opportunity segmentation and competitive environment. A product plan is never a substitute for a business plan. Quality testing and approval processes.

Product 55

Product Startup Summary Entrepreneur 55

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. For example, “I just patented a new cell-phone technology that will double battery life for half the cost.

Startup 65

Startup Writing Patents Competition 65

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Personal friendships will improve communications and trust, and will definitely improve your personal satisfaction and life balance, between work and play. Even with all our technology, business is still people-to-people. Work to make your ability to manage relationships your sustainable competitive advantage.

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Tips Mentor Coach Activity 95

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2015

In this world of constant change, new technologies, and a thousand cultures, it’s evident and somehow comforting to me that the basic rules for business prosperity really haven’t changed in the last hundred years. Business success is still more about the people than the technology or idea involved. Applied faith.

Entrepreneur 108

Entrepreneur Ideas Customer Custom 108