socalTECH

MAY 28, 2021

Irvine-based University Lab Partners and the SBDC @ UCI Beall Applied Innovation said this morning that the two organizations have launched a new, startup competition, which is aimed at accelerating both life sciences and technology startups. The new competition is open until June 12th.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE said today that it has launched a new competition, the XPRIZE Feed the Next Billion competition. According to XPRIZE, the new competition is being supported by The Tony Robbins Foundation and The Good Food Institute, and aims to challenge teams to developing new chicken and fish alternatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

In my experience as a business advisor, most organizations, large and small, struggle to keep up with the pace of change and competitive forces today. A question I often get is how to transform that overall team into a smooth-running machine that will keep up with the pace of market change, and competition in today’s world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2020

As an investor, I always listen carefully to what an entrepreneur says, and does not say, about competition. Every business area has competition and every customer has alternatives, so a smart entrepreneur needs to acknowledge these as a positive in defining a big market, and position the features of a new solution in this context.

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socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2021

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE, which organizes and runs competitions which spur teams to compete to solve major challenges to humanity, says it has selected 38 teams for the $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE competition. The group said those teams came from 16 countries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2023

As an investor, I always listen carefully to what an entrepreneur says, and does not say, about competition. Every business area has competition and every customer has alternatives, so a smart entrepreneur needs to acknowledge these as a positive in defining a big market, and position the features of a new solution in this context.

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socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2021

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE says it has named two winners in its $20M, NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE competition. The competition challenged teams to convert CO2 emissions into valuable products. CarbonBuilt's technology was originally developed at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering.

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TechEmpower

JULY 12, 2023

A Fractional CTO bridges the gap between founders and developers to help keep your tech strategy aligned with your business goals. This helps your startup stay agile and competitive in a fast-paced marketplace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2021

These teams are motivated to develop approaches to creatively explore new opportunities for growth. Building and managing teams along the new lines outlined is not easy, and that’s why it’s a real competitive advantage when you do it. For team members, the ongoing challenge is figuring out what not to do.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

An example would be a drug development company needing various stages of FDA approval, substituted for “prototype” above. million), but certainly also allowing the investor to put much lower values into each test, resulting in valuations well below that amount. There is nothing wrong with changing the five tests to meet individual needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there are over 34 million registered developers in 2022.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

If you hire truly talented people you end up definitionally with a lot of competitive peers who will inevitably jockey for resources and control. Extremely talented people are ultra competitive. Your most talented developer quits because he thinks his boss is a fuckwit and he can’t work with her any more. More developers?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2020

These leaders are those exceptional team members who have proven themselves or developed the strength of character, behavior, and learning to be the drivers of the next phase of your business growth. Make this combination a key element of your sustainable competitive advantage. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 20 million registered developers in 2018.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Design your invisible competitive advantage. Remember that every specific competitive advantage is temporary – every product or service becomes a commodity over time. It’s always valuable and symbolic to take the time to speak with real live people, both informally and in executive interviews.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

The venture is also one of the few e-motorcycle companies drawing engineering tips from competition. Track competition is a secondary arena for Energica. But the competition is closing in on some of the Italian EV maker’s numbers. MotoE Worldcup racing, Image Credits: Energica.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Greg immediately hit the ground running with a few themes that he had developed while the CMO at HauteLook, a successful eCommerce business that sold to Nordstrom for $270 million. On the one hand you can view their local stores as a competitive disadvantage because eCommerce companies can sell products with no physical retail stores.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

They need incentives to investigate market trends and competitive actions, as well as continuous communication of the bigger picture of the business and current objectives. The most effective teams, through sharing and common interests, develop leaders at all levels. Give credit.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2013

In my first enterprise software company we developed a methodology for sales that we called PUCCKA , which I wrote about previously. So I often work with teams to get them to codify the key things they do well that the competition does not. The first post covered the topic of “P” or pain.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 31, 2013

With over 350 participants expected, teams will compete in a 2-day coding competition to make local government more accessible and citizen-friendly while also getting a shot at fame, civic glory and cash / tech prizes totaling more than $20,000. Register at [link] eventbrite.com/#. Startup Advice'

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Los Angeles-based nonprofit XPRIZE --which runs prize competitions to help advance technology and solutions to world problems--said on Tuesday that celebrity Pharrell Williams has won the top prize in its latest "Visioneering 2019" annual gathering. READ MORE>>.

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TechEmpower

JUNE 6, 2018

Most importantly, the community has been contributing some amazing test implementations and demonstrating the fun and utility of some good-natured performance competition. Expect to hear more about this as the plan develops during Round 17. We also want the ever-increasing diversity of options for web development to be represented.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

btw: xitca-web (bench code not including dependencies) does not do 2,3,5 and still remains competitive in micro bench can be used as a reference. Context and use case determines how you optimize your code. synopse I have written a blog post about TFB and object pascal - yes, we added our object pascal framework in round 22!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

If I’m covering a company can I get evidence of what the competition is doing so the story is balanced? We provide strategic advice to digital media companies in a manner that reflects how corporate development is actually done. Do I have data or facts to present so the story has legs? Final example.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Competitive (Athlete: skier & rowed at Princeton, hates losing at everything she does). As a firm we start by wanting to attract future partners who have worked at startups before and have developed a competence which might be marketing (Greg) or product and CEO experience (Kara) plus amazing Biz Dev experience (Hamet).

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE , the nonprofit which manages and operates competitions intended to spur significant advances in technology, says it has rolled out a new, $1 million award, which it calls the Moonshot Award. SpaceIL originally began development of its lunar lander as part of the Google Lunar XPRIZE effort.

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Google Competition Los Angeles Technology 145

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

Feedback driven product development versus visionary (Steve Jobs) driven development. In this clip we discuss why Nanea is a proponent of a lean startup and data driven development methodology. She combines gathering: Quantitative data – data hook implementation, click tracking, A/B testing.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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Berkonomics

JULY 27, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] This is not to bend this insight into a claim that a company should wait to develop new, groundbreaking products and services until a customer asks for them. All companies whether service or product-oriented must fight to gain and maintain quality of product, or fall to the bottom of the competitive heap.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

Since Arrested Development is back I thought I’d resurrect Gob Bluth’s answer when he was told he needed a “business model” – he quickly figured out that he was missing one so he asked Starla, the Bluth company secretary, if she would be his business model. why did they buy? It is about product.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 9, 2020

And profits from the sale of the product create cash for development of the next product. If the time to market is slowed by inefficient development, the risk of a competitive product overtaking yours increases dramatically. The effect of being slow to market even in tough times. It’s all about fixed overhead and efficiency.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2021

According to the two, the new Milken-Motsepe Innovation Prize is aimed at technological solutions that accelerate progress towards implementing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

The Grand Challenge series brings together companies developing new transportation or airspace management technologies, the Agency said. Getting the agreements signed are the first step in a multi-stage process that will culminate in the challenge’s official competition in 2022. It is designed to allow U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

He succinctly outlines the key behaviors that I believe every business leader must focus on, to drive innovation without waiting for the next competitive crisis: Avoid the assumption that current gifts will keep on giving. Ensure your firm’s fitness to act on new opportunities, and develop an evolving sense of where the future lies.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE, which runs competition to spur technology development to help solve world challenges, and the Musk Foundation--the charity organization funded by Elon Musk--says it has awarded $5M across 23 different student teams, to help them compete in the larger $100M XPRIZE for Carbon Removal.

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Competition Los Angeles Organization Funding 113

Berkonomics

JANUARY 2, 2025

You are responsible for the quality of performance that defines an excellent enterprise and assures long life for the company as competition becomes more aggressive and geographically extended. How do you efficiently get your offering from development to market? The fourth P is for process.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Of course it’s a competitive market so MCNs competing for top talent not only compete on rev share to talent but also to services that they provide talent. Developing O&O (owned & operated) businesses (outside of YouTube). Industry averages for talent revenue shares are about 70% with top talent making even more.

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