Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2015

We initially launched this test as MeerSpace but people didn’t seem to get the reference. They designed a device that you could strap to your head and help you remove bad thoughts & experiences. If you stored things that might grow you could see their status? And we needed to go to 11. And then the team cracked it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

better than anybody we had spoke with and she had the marketing chops to know how to communicate this to her market once she designed & built her products. and a differentiated feel in terms of fabric, design, sustainability, etc. Ariel understood her customer?—?the the modern buyer of home products?—?better

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Too many founders still focus their product design and selling efforts only on direct paybacks to the customer. A successful campaign must not only capture people’s imagination but must have the right integration to move people to a new frame of reference and new thinking. Incent your team to continually think “outside-the-box.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Services Startup Training Writing 61

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 24, 2016

The Affordable Care Act, often referred to as “Obamacare,” has enacted major changes for healthcare providers since it was enacted at the start of President Obama’s first term. Even so, employers will need to keep their plans competitive in order to discourage marketplace health plan shopping.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Feels a real passion and love for their role.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2010

Russell Stern: Most semiconductor companies have to have to do board designs anyway, for reference designs, and to further qualify them, certify them, and get them through agency approvals. Are you still pursuing embedded designs--you were looking at LAN on motherboard last year, as we recall? Russell Stern: We still are.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2013

Before you design your new solution idea, gather evidence and estimates of how much money a customer is willing to spend (if any) to solve the problem. Get a reference customer. All this assumes you have done the right job first in assessing competition, establishing the sales and marketing channels, and optimizing costs.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

Kevin Hell: We''re going all the way down to the chip design and production, which is coming out of Asia. It''s very resistant to interference, due to the way the technology was designed. However, if you''re successful, the payout is quite large, and there''s a little bit less competition in the space.

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Technical Review Software Review Networking Technology 213

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2012

Before you design your new solution idea, gather evidence and estimates of how much money a customer is willing to spend (if any) to solve the problem. Get a reference customer. All this assumes you have done the right job first in assessing competition, establishing the sales and marketing channels, and optimizing costs.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 22, 2017

That’s why I had a quick conversation with Christopher Adams, CEO of Levium , an all natural drink designed to reduce anxiety. Tech is a very competitive, macho environment in which anxiety is rarely understood and is usually perceived as a weakness.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

These engagements went well and he came highly referred by my friend Gary Swart who runs oDesk. He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis. I knew his as he considered becoming a VC and we talked a lot about how it was going for me in my early years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Passion for what they do. No historical baggage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2011

Before you design your new solution idea, gather evidence and estimates of how much money a customer is willing to spend (if any) to solve the problem. Get a reference customer. All this assumes you have done the right job first in assessing competition, establishing the sales and marketing channels, and optimizing costs.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

To get any notice from any accelerator, the best thing is to have their current companies and mentors refer you. We've created a heads down environment, where companies are not competitive with each other, but you've got serious, smart people in a productive working environment. Companies like Addroid provides resources for design.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 20, 2011

Competition – Make it clear that only the best Interns will be granted offers for full-time positions. This explicit competitive element will cause the high-achievers to excel. . Such tours were effective because we were designing and building cutting-edge medical robots, thus there was a lot to see and touch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Passion for what they do. No historical baggage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Feels a real passion and love for their role.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

We refer to them as plastic solar panels. That makes solar panels as a product not competitive at all, if you removed government subsidies. We believe that plastic solar cells will be uniquely competitive in windows applications, which we believe will be coming out in 2012, based on our own schedules. We're also hiring.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

If you don’t follow the image reference above or the tag line, “ You don’t need double talk; you need Bob Loblaw “ (try saying it out loud) , and if you care! I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? But make it competitive.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2009

The way we've been describing this to people has been, you can treat our RF device like a digital chip--all of the RF design is out of the equation. One, which we refer to as the RF2401, is intended for the Zigbee and Bluetooth markets. Anything we'll be doing will have reference designs with Broadcom and Cirrus and the others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Passion for what they do. No historical baggage.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

There’s plenty of capital out there, but there’s also a lot of competition for startup funding. Designate a point person to handle the relationships. include reference and link to article about milestone fundraising]. According to Shayne, only 1 out of 1000 business plans might get VC funding.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 6, 2012

“Competition for the future is about what you are doing today,” Vijay Govindarajan preaches passionately from the stage at the front of the Metro Toronto Convention center on June 5th, 2012 at the Art of Leadership Conference. So Ford, pricing their car at $15,000, was aiming at the very rich India car buyer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Passion for what they do. No historical baggage.

Software Review 92

Software Review CTO Hire Outsource Development Startup 92

Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

If your wireless infrastructure provider doesn’t have the necessary equipment and services, however, TSPs should start considering other options or risk falling behind the competition. References. How NFV & SDN Native Software Design Can Bring Big Savings for Mobile Network Operators. Smart cities are a good example of why.³

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Web API Design Best PracticesThis session will cover the basics of Web API but dig deeper and take attendees past basic CRUD operations on resources and dive into how to create a robust API using Web API. Leveraging these techniques should put you on an even playing field or ahead of the native app competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2010

Before you design your new solution idea, gather evidence and estimates of how much money a customer is willing to spend (if any) to solve the problem. Get a reference customer. All this assumes you have done the right job first in assessing competition, establishing the sales and marketing channels, and optimizing costs.

Tips 48

Tips Pricing Customer Custom 48

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2011

For those unfamiliar, augmented reality (AR) refers to the use of graphical or informational overlays onto the real world to provide a mixed reality experience. A total of 113 speakers representing 82 companies were on the bill to deliver over 30 hours of talks across three tracks: Business, Technology, and Production & Design.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I shall refer to the photographer as “Mac” for the remainder of this article. Another of Mac’s stories highlights the degree to which Steve treated his designs as works of art. As Harvard Professor Michael Porter notes, competitive advantage is not derived by doing things, “better, faster, cheaper.”

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 3, 2012

When I say “get personal,” I am referring to non-typical questions designed to determine who the candidate really is. Did you play any team or individual sports competitively? Another way to identify the acne-faced high school kid is to ask personal questions. Sample Personal Questions. Did you move around a lot as a kid?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Others should swing for the fences - Some companies are designed to be big, industry changing plays. It was obviously a joke and a reference to the supposed Bin 38 meeting. There is no way for people to keep prices down – it’s a competitive market. I always counsel young entrepreneurs to start on the local train.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. Focus on collecting customer references. Your business model can be a better sustainable competitive advantage than your product features, or it can be your biggest risk exposure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. Focus on collecting customer references. Your business model can be a better sustainable competitive advantage than your product features, or it can be your biggest risk exposure.

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Product Technical Review Pricing Software Review 159

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 8, 2014

With this, we had an opportunity to create a competitively priced product for the US market with a simple model.” “ Originally, I was in software development – not as a programmer, but designing and planning with a strong marketing background. Their main goal is to create a long-term sustainable customer base.

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