Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Alibaba, today the counterpart in China to Amazon, Ebay, and Google here, has demonstrated leadership in this area, and provides guidance for all of us to learn from in a new book, “ Smart Business ,” by Ming Zeng. No human or paper tracking systems are a competitive alternative. Configure every decision step into real-time software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force. Online entertainment: millions of channels, billions of actors. zettabytes by the year 2016. Marty Zwilling.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. About 100 teams participated in that competition, and 10 teams were selected to be part of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage program. How did Tilofy come about? What drove your interest in this area?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

The ambitiously competitive teams were as follows: The Brownies, with Epic Tunes, an app aimed at live concert goers, to provide information, show reviews, and access to ticket purchases. Seek out similar academic competitions and programs. Team Rise, and their app to help teens manage their budgets and time. Find a hero.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

What most entrepreneurs fail to appreciate is that even the most basic marketing takes time, money and creativity, and even the best still may not succeed in winning over competitive approaches or the status quo. According to Gartner's Hype Cycle Special Report for 2014 , wearable user interfaces such as Google Glass are now in this stage.

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JULY 20, 2018

Time to curl up in your cubicle, pop open one of these in-depth, entertaining reads, and catch up on some of what you missed during a busy week. You’ve made it to Friday. This week we’re taking a look at all the political stories that are coming out of the tech world.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market. For example, to promote Katy Perry’s new film, the agency might buy out all of the images of Katy Perry, as well as the entertainment channel that might not feature the keyword Katy Perry but would display contextually relevant images.

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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. in fact we still look at many deals in the media sector whose main objective is to entertain people. Far from it.

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MAY 2, 2013

Both Waxman and Elbaz are serial entrepreneurs, with many successes under their belt (Elbaz with Applied Semantics, which he sold to Google, Waxman with such companies as Firefly Networks, SpotRunner, and PeoplePC). Although they might have more people in the field up in the Bay Area, there''s more competition for those people.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Our combined experience working in film education and inside the traditional and digital entertainment industry gives us unique insight into building an authentic “film school like” education on the web. Any competition in LA? That’s a complete and powerful experience which has also helped us to grow quickly.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Google) were initially based on open source elements, then refined to make it work reliably at huge scale, clearly demonstrating the relevance of open source for cloud computing. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! The earliest mega-scale web services (e.g.,

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JANUARY 7, 2010

ISPs are looking to differentiate themselves with value added services, beyond just telecom and entertainment services, and you are starting to see themselves looking at a platform and what they can add. Google has its own home energy monitoring project, PowerMeter - is this competitive or different?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Addison McCaleb – Mediahound , making it easier for you to discover entertainment. Noor Siddiqui – Remedy On Glass , helping doctors collaborate using Google Glass. Jared Golden – Pear, connecting local community groups to their sponsors. Ricky Johnson – PledgeCents , improving K-12 through community learning.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2013

To support this growth, Internap has not only taken notice, but in response, has jumped leaps and bounds ahead of their competition to provide a foundation of support structure that Southern California needs. They may be new to LA, but I think they get it.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

As should Eric Sikola and ExpenseBay who won the “Showoff&# judges competition ( Photos featured here taken by (cc) Kenneth Yeung – [link] ). Jason’s cutting wit and insightful commentary made for entertaining listening on topics ranging from the Microsoft / Yahoo!

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

Tapping into a niche community is part of Quirktastic Media’s competitive advantage. And for those that run on Google, having an extra layer of protection against ransomware or hacks could save businesses. Spinbackup is a Google Cloud Partner and provide Cloud-to-Cloud backup and cyber security solutions for SaaS data.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2011

monocle or Google Goggles allow you to take pictures of restaurants/objects and give you more in-depth information on the subject. And what would an industry be without some competition? Think a google maps digital overlay over a police helicopter chase video, with all visible street names and numbers on the screen.

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Frank Addante

JULY 20, 2012

Great companies like Amazon, Google, and Apple have adopted product-driven structures very successfully. That team’s members likely thought about video, music, entertainment, games, which resulted in the creation of the AppStore. If you wait for that all to untangle, you’ll never get there.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

My wife worked at Google so while we had good income in Silicon Valley it’s hardly the life of luxury given the costs of housing. There is no way for people to keep prices down – it’s a competitive market. I had two kids and a rental house. It was obviously a joke and a reference to the supposed Bin 38 meeting.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. I don’t like going against Google Docs or against 37Signals for project management. It seems to be geared on a “Monopoly” style game. Founded in 2007.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

But I’m sure he’ll never remember your company when Google buys you for $500 million and he’s still eating Ramen – right? Your cousin specializes in entertainment law – that’s different. But make it competitive. Shame about not getting it in legal writing that you owned the original IP.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

But the end result was incredibly valuable, so looked at that end result and we were able to optimize our campaigns and be more efficient than our competition. There’s aggregation, so like in the entertainment industry, audience measurement is huge. We’re starting to see Google Glass and other interactive personal devices.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Import your content from a Google Maps Account, KML file, or create it from scratch using their content management system. Demand Media is a leading online media company that informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. The Sponsors.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Import your content from a Google Maps Account, KML file, or create it from scratch using their content management system. Demand Media is a leading online media company that informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. The Sponsors.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Throughout all of this we saw a tinkerer, a problem solver and a completely obsessed leader who was competitive and wanted to win. But we were sure that Jamie would be maniacally focused on improving the product, marketing the dream to consumers and out-maneuvering the slower-moving competition. We weren’t sure.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

He was fortunate enough to attend three competitions: Atlanta, Sydney and Athens. Google for nature. Fun fact: When Brandon was 11, he was on the junior national team for Taekwondo and received his black belt. Skye grew up watching his aunt compete in four summer Olympics. LawTrades. AngelList: [link]. From: San Francisco, CA.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. According to Google data 30% of all restaurant searches now come via mobile devices. Businesses are also one-click from advertising through Google and now Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

And while Maker Studios is pure entertainment, TreeHouse is pure education. No, not all of these people will get jobs at hot starts like Facebook, Google or Twitter. But its objective is to teach the world web design or to program computers. I’m investing in businesses that reinvent education.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

You quit your 9-5 to build the next google or iBeer. Collaboration Over Competition: Competitors as Business Partners. Entrepreneurism / Monetization competition, ecommerce, small business. . Genre communities particularly the horror-themed ones are increasing seen by the entertainment indus. Sally Strebel, Page.ly.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

A very big thanks to Alexandra Harris, the founder of FanCause , a company that aims to connect entertainment brands with their fans to raise money. Don’t obsess over your competition because most times competition will implode on their own, pivot in a different direction, or you’ll learn to coexist. Sounds like a noble cause.

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