Berkonomics

APRIL 24, 2014

Although that is still a good idea in many cases, there is a recent alternative available to some entrepreneurs on a competitive basis that seems most attractive and positive. There are many stories of funding deals made on demo day amid the excitement of seeing new, polished startups with great ideas and the beginnings of an infrastructure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Today’s customers demand more than a good product; they expect a great customer experience. Others include the marketing awareness and education stage, online and in-store shopping stage, setup stage, support, and upgrade considerations. People love Apple’s whole customer experience, and willingly pay a premium for the product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2021

Some advisors recommend that the best time for a startup is immediately after academic studies, or even earlier, but I find that real business experience, perhaps many years in business , is the best education on the realities of business, current tools, and processes. Should I start out alone, or assemble a team first?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

They also look ahead to forecast what you should expect. Here are a few of their key points, with my own insights added: Workers today are more educated and aware of options. Innovations, both inside and outside the company, are driven more by great thinkers than organizations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2020

It requires an attitude of self-education, versus an assumption that someone else will provide the education. Great entrepreneurs strive to understand the depth of a customer need, rather than just the ability to recite a longer list of features. Learning means understanding, far beyond memorization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2010

Due in large part to the current economy and an ultra-competitive job market, a Gen-Y entrepreneurial tsunami is already upon us. Rather than watching the clock (in that “I can’t wait to get out of here” way) interning at a startup is a great opportunity to experience the challenge associated with being a responsible team member.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

One of the biggest challenges I have as an advisor to tech entrepreneurs is to convince you that marketing is required for your product, no matter how great it is, just to get it found with today’s information overload. It is this perceived competence that gives you a competitive edge. In the new book, “ Convinced!:

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

It’s easy to see why people of the time would have taken great issue with machinery — it left some people (industrialists) very wealthy and made people previously in control of their economics often devastated. People who failed to industrialize, however well intentioned one’s goals, were at a competitive disadvantage to those who had.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Here is a summary of their key observations, with our joint specifics on what to expect, and how to overcome these obstacles: Customers don’t buy what they don’t know and understand. Word-of-mouth is great, but it’s not a launch strategy that stands alone. Marketing alone cannot make a product great.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2017

Great ideas solve big problems, preferably painful needs that people will readily be willing to pay money for a solution. 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. Is the opportunity large and growing?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Great ideas will have no trouble getting funded. Entrepreneurs who expect funding at the idea stage are usually disappointed. Entrepreneurs who expect funding at the idea stage are usually disappointed. First-to-market is a key competitive advantage. If we build a great product, customers will find it and us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2012

A while back, I wrote about the value of Michael Porter’s Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment, and using every opportunity to highlight and emphasize your relative advantages, whether they be price, features, or bargaining power. Exceed customer expectations. Continuous customer service innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

If you’re building an education startup and you don’t see any logos of education companies on the firm’s website you are likely targeting the wrong firm. The next pass is the “competitive pass”?—?have The hardest thing is that after you’ve had a great first meeting with a VC (or LP) you expect it’s all going to start happening!

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

People need to be influenced and educated to change consumption habits, expectations, and buying patterns. It may sound counterintuitive, but when you are creating a new market, competition helps legitimize it and increases the size of the pie. Highlight positive social and environmental impacts. Concept marketing is critical.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

A while back, I wrote about the importance of a “ sustainable competitive advantage ,” and outlined the business plan value and limitations of patents and competitor feature comparisons. Exceed customer expectations. Show a relentless commitment to exceeding, not just meeting, expectations. Use it, and don’t lose it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It’s the story of what’s broken with the education system in the US. It’s an important film and the most important topic of our generation if we as a country want to remain competitive in a world that has globalized. Yesterday I went to see the film Waiting for Superman. Wasn’t that the American promise?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2015

It requires an attitude of self-education, versus an assumption that someone else will provide the education. Great entrepreneurs strive to understand the depth of a customer need, rather than just the ability to recite a longer list of features. Learning means understanding, far beyond memorization.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Paris is so dense and has a great metro. 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. LA is different. Lime estimated that could have replaced 1.6

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

We worked on consolidation with business units, and did that for Bridgepoint Education and smaller companies, where I actually drove a lot of cloud migration stuff. The competitive advantages of doing this are very exciting, and we get a powerful response from both audiences. It's been really great. They had probably 20 or 30.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup. In Michael's case, he promised his parents that he would return to school if the sales at his startup did not meet his expectations. "I Great entrepreneurs are action oriented.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2016

It requires an attitude of self-education, versus an assumption that someone else will provide the education. Great entrepreneurs strive to understand the depth of a customer need, rather than just the ability to recite a longer list of features. Learning means understanding, far beyond memorization.

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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. Online education. Far from it. Lots of it. Almost nobody believed and now look at it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Today’s customers demand more than a good product; they expect a great customer experience. Others include the marketing awareness and education stage, online and in-store shopping stage, setup stage, support, and upgrade considerations. People love Apple’s whole customer experience, and willingly pay a premium for the product.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals. Great Suit.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2015

It can sometimes create confusion about whether or not you’re truly a great leader or whether people feel they must just follow your orders. I worked closely with a client and a wonderful, young mother named Diane said to me, “You think you’re a great leader? I was competitive. I hated losing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

1) Expect Independent Channel Sales Reps To Perform Missionary Sales. In addition to paying the consultant, you must invest time to educate them. Even benevolent BDCs lose interest in your solution once this competitive risk is eliminated. If I were you, I would be thinking, ‘Great, but where was the love last week?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Ship and iterate, don’t expect instant perfection. Perfection is impossible in today’s rapidly changing market, and iterations are part of educating the market as well as your team. Failing well to Google means failing fast and failing cheap, all very positive attributes in today’s rapidly changing and highly competitive world.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

There are many problems with this: - Your chances of being selected aren’t great. It is a great show but would be 10x more valuable if it were TC20). Many other great companies are not. - Guy Kawasaki said it best (paraphrasing), “you can’t do great marketing with a bad product.&# Maybe 10. .

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

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. It’s these different perspectives that have allowed us to create a great product and great partnerships. You’re right.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. If nothing else you will create board cohesion and board education by engaging your board. In Rob’s spare time he always seems to be going to a boxing class or some other competitive, physical activity. Assigns tasks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The VC industry has different segments in it that have different fund sizes, different investment amounts and different risk / return expectations. I wrote about it here (mostly starting at point 7) and Chris Dixon wrote a great post about it here. That may be a great return for him/her but for a venture investor it’s not.

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