Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2018

Dell’s response would be something like “Quality custom computers more quickly than the competition.” And in this company example, both quality and speed are the critical factors in competitive advantage. Its reputation is based upon fast food in a minute, with quality that is acceptable but not discernibly above the competition.

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Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2017

Know your market and competition, or don’t spend a dime on anything else. In this case, the competition was not from a company but a new technology. When I listen to a pitch from an enthusiastic entrepreneur or read the summary of a business plan, one of the first questions I ask is about the strength of the competition.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 20, 2025

And oil is a lubricant [Email readers, continue here…] But the most important lesson to remember is that cash is the great lubricant for businesses. It seems that the first subject that comes up in such assignments is the health of the competition. Such bargains; so little time.

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Acquisition Email Competition Activity 285

socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2014

near real-time automated intelligence gathering systems that scour public and private data sources like websites, blogs, social media and email to unearth information businesses can use for competitive advantage. Bitvore, led by Jeff Curie, said that it has developed a.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Know your market and competition, or don’t spend a dime on anything else. I have stated previously that I love absolutes – statements with no wiggle room for gray-area responses. Fast forward several years to 1996… [Email readers continue here.] There is no competition.” Positioning.

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Marketing Competition Research Summary 247

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

It is the bane of every startups existence because it takes up so much time, it is so competitive to sign people and it feels like unproductive time because it’s not moving the ball forward on product, engineering, sales, marketing, biz dev, fund raising. Recruiting. In fact, it’s worse than that. Don’t fight 90% of the war.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

They were a little too fierce in their competitive practices against Lyft to sign up drivers. As somebody who has to rub shoulders with big tech companies often I can tell you that there is much blood spilled in the competitive trenches of Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Google and so on. Increasingly startups want access to our emails.

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Press Journal Startup Competition 418

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

In an email announcing the renewal, Jerome Chang, the coworking space's founder, said that he believes that--having already been in the location for five years--that makes the coworking space the oldest, and therefore first coworking spot in SoCal.

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Culver City Santa Monica Southern California SoCal 256

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2011

I received a couple of emails from my friends and colleagues vigorously defending GroupMe. Then an email came in from somebody I know that made it clear to me what was wrong and what my internal compass had been trying to tell me. . I said it was a great product that was well marketed.&#. It lingered. Congrats, GroupMe team.

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Email Writing Blogging Competition 270

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Both are required to stay competitive. An increasing number of startups are adopting a BYOD policy, realizing that individuals have their own preferences in the way they access data, collect emails or ‘chat’ to colleagues. Bring your own device to work (BYOD). Use of collaborative and other social media platforms.

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Competition Case Study Platform Yahoo 127

Berkonomics

JULY 20, 2023

and this is a forecast: [Email readers, continue here…] But during the year, if the forecast revenues fall short or are greatly exceeded, it is fair to revise the budget and rethink your hiring and resources. The post What’s the difference between your budget and forecast? first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 17, 2017

Let’s examine the relationship between time, quality and competitiveness. Email readers, continue here…] Perhaps better examples to point to are easy to find in the toy industry, where recalls because of small parts that could be swallowed by infants or lead-based paint or flammable components make the news on a regular basis.

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Software Review Examples Competition News 243

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2019

How to Deal with Electronic Distractions Of course the biggest competition you have with the attention of your board members is their mobile phones. Most board members don’t have the intention of checking email, reading the news or sending a quick text message but just like most smokers don’t want to pull out a cigarette?

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Berkonomics

MARCH 25, 2012

Email readers, continue here.] Strategic relationships (reducing market risk and competitive risk) $1/2 million. Prototype (reducing technology risk) $1/2 million. Quality Management Team (reducing execution risk) $1/2 million. Product Rollout or Sales (reducing financial or production risk) $1/2 million.

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Invest Startup Email Competition 321

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

So don’t expect an unprompted email or phone call next week. I guess they assume that since I didn’t email or call I must not be interested. Start with a very short thank you email the day after your pitch. Start with a very short thank you email the day after your pitch. Maybe it shouldn’t be?

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Venture Capital Startup Email News 277

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Email readers, continue here.] The board provides input into that vision, testing it against their experience and reason, and challenges it as a part of its duty to protect the shareholders and care for the corporate asset.

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Resource Email Competition Entrepreneur 217

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. Competition isn’t won or lost by your marketing decks?

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Funding Venture Capital IP Email 239

Berkonomics

JULY 4, 2013

But for most, the true sign of success and potential for even more is in the landing of a major account, one that validates the pricing, quality and competitive advantages of a company’s offering. For this reason alone, it makes sense for most of us to aim high once we have worked the kinks out of our offering with smaller customers.

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.Net Resource Competition Custom 235

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Historically you are your email address. Think about your local news anchor saying, “if you want to get in touch email me at xxxx.” Nearly every day now I see public figures telling people their Twitter identity in stead of Facebook, email or other forms of identity. Who are you on the web? ” Sure.

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News Web Email Startup 324

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

Dave is terrible with email. He’s so bad that his email auto-responder tells you he likely won’t email you back. He doesn’t email you. He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis. I doubt he owns an item of clothes worth more than $20. And thoughtful.

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Startup Venture Capital Email Writing 309

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Other investment bankers insist that the company create competition for a deal, even if the buyer has already submitted a letter of interest to the seller. Competition opens the deal to more public access, slows the deal and could give competitors wind of an otherwise confidential process.

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Invest Competition Pricing Startup 207

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Among the participants that applied for the online competitions, only a progressed into the semi-finals. Tech.Co: What was the road like leading up to your initial pitch for the competition? Celebrate Conference in October. Climbing the ranks for our Western Region, Picking Duck was one of two semi-final winners.

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Competition Startup Ideas Conference 91

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. Email readers, continue here.] Accelerators are popping up in college towns, urban cities and near existing technology hubs.

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Coach Seed Funding Summary Incubator 250

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Most of us are driven by the competitive spirit, the desire or need to win. It provides a short competitive experience with a measurable outcome in which the players know who won and by how much. Create small but meaningful competitions between groups or individuals for which recognition or small rewards are published in advance.

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Metrics Competition Coach Email 176

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Email readers, continue here…]. You’ll have less competition. Competition is good, but – if there are hundreds of businesses out there that already have gotten to and penetrated this niche – you’re going to find it hard to get through the marketing noise. So, what other benefits are there to niche marketing?

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Marketing Advertising Resource Social Media 266

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

Competitive sportswoman. Kara on one side of the table showing me market sizes, competitive dynamics, product roadmaps, pricing plans for physical products with COGS and gross margins. Soleil returns emails at 1.30am. Remember, it’s about Lines, Not Dots. I first met Kara 5 years ago. Stanford MBA. Showing me designs.

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Startup Design Downey Activity 398

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

Local.com said it will start directly sourcing deals in May, giving local merchants and national retailers a way to offer daily deals to consumers via email. Local.com enters an area with stiff competition from Groupon, LivingSocial, not to mention thousands of other local daily deal clones. READ MORE>>.

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Orange County Email Competition Mobile 164

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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Customer Custom Design Conference 243

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 13, 2014

If you have an issue renaming or merging a page, you get an email that says “denied.” Can you email them? They know it and so do their competition. They have the worst customer service of any company I deal with. Facebook doesn’t seem to care. ” Can you appeal or even respond? Can you call them?

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Social Network Email Web Competition 184

Berkonomics

JANUARY 11, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] Generative thinkers are relentless in asking questions that get to the core of an idea, often making the originator think more deeply about the effects over a longer period of time. Strategic thinking: Board members who ask: “What is the competitive landscape?” Generative.

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Company Companies Ideas Competition 243

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

I got an email recently from my friend & fellow VC, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston. My list of excuses includes: product, pricing, competition and lack of sales support. This includes presentations, ROI calculators, competitive analyses and so forth. And that leads me to today’s post.

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Startup Sales Course Competition 319

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

OnSale was previously one of PC Mall's computer and electronics e-commerce sites; the site's home page is now dedicated to signing up email addresses of potential users. OnSale said it had approximately 81 people working on the effort, and claimed that its expertise and experience in the online e-commerce space would help it in its effort.

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Torrance Commerce Startup Sites 170

Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Note that I used the term “forecast” for revenues for the next year. But during the year, if the forecast revenues fall short or are greatly exceeded, it is fair to revise the budget and rethink your hiring and resources. The term is also used when projecting revenues for succeeding years.

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Course Resource Email Competition 243

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2014

My email back to him was a version of. Competition is fierce. I got an email recently from a VC who had invested in a company a small amount in a seed round. “This is a very accomplished executive in his industry across more than 20 years. He has a team of 4 other such executives. ” That’s precisely it.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Email 333

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Mahalo.com, has ramped up his competition with former business partner Michael Arrington , saying this morning he is launching a competing startup launch conference called the LAUNCH Conference.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Once brightblu began to take off and started developing their product and technology, it was brought to their attention that there was an upcoming business contest called the UCSB New Venture Competition. For a video interview between John Greathouse and Kevin O’Connor, check out: Kevin O’Connor Shares The Secrets Of Business Success.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 13, 2012

However, at most startups, competitive advantages are derived from a combination of invention and innovation, as described more fully in Inventor Or Innovator – Which Are You? Startups often out-maneuver their larger rivals by changing the key parameters upon which competition has historically been based. The Berkoff Blastoff.

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