Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

For example, I usually hear about an aggressive marketing budget, with a plan to penetrate a few big retail chains, and some videos to catch your attention on YouTube. Sponsor some friendly competitive events with prizes. Examples include the Nike Run Club app where people participate in challenges and win trophies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. FabLab s is an example of a new class of facilities for entrepreneurs to start experimenting early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2023

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. Highly saturated domains (more than 10 existing players), such as niche social media sites, are highly risky. Make it ready to play in all media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D. Then, he'll need to patent it and create a plan to show opportunity, competition, and financial projections. Then, he'll need to patent it and create a plan to show opportunity, competition, and financial projections. Yes, there are a lot of bridges to cross.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

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. Highly saturated domains (more than 10 existing players), such as niche social media sites, are highly risky. Make it ready to play in all media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

For example, consider how many years it took for the market to move from radio to television, or fully accept personal computers on every desktop. Highlight positive social and environmental impacts. Use social media and the media to build demand for change. The leading edge was too often the bleeding edge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Find partners who can do what you cannot do alone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Find partners who can do what you cannot do alone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

If you are an inventor, for example, you need to line up the business side of your team before angels will be interested. If your solution and brand are really new and innovative, you need to protect them with a patent, trademark or trade secret. Highlight existing presence on the Internet and social media.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

You can press a button, and it scans the social media chatter and organizes highlights aroundyou, of relevant conversations around a particular location and particular time. Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. How did Tilofy come about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. You have no shelf life, so you can’t make money while you sleep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

Intellectual property and sustainable competitive advantage. Patents, trade secrets, and trademarks are very attractive to investors, since these are not easily overcome by competitors. Examples of similar events in your industry are especially helpful. Solo entrepreneurs have a hard time finding an investor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2017

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. Highly saturated domains (more than 10 existing players), such as niche social media sites, are highly risky. Make it ready to play in all media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2016

For example, investors recognize that online gambling sites or a medical marijuana site may generate big returns but may tarnish their squeaky clean reputation. Other social ventures may make good family businesses, but scaling and profitability are limited. Secret sauce' or competitive advantage is not clear.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups - Steve Blank , May 27, 2010 Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc. At best I think business plan competitions are a waste of time. You could just outspend. There is a much better technique.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

They have built proprietary ad serving, video serving and image recognition technology, complete with patents, and invented in-image advertising. Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market. What started as a tech company is gaining ground as a media company.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. A good example of this, we can keep track of a supply chain.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

When we discussed the feedback we saw an opportunity to use our backgrounds in search and discovery to help us stand out from the competition. We started building LoveIt to refine social discovery and visual curation by changing the way people search for and share images. Have you had any challenges? How do you Differ From Pinterest?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

A business plan is the outward facing definition of the business you hope to drive with your hardware solution, with a hardware overview in the intro to highlight customer value and competitiveness. For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.”

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Because its just not that hyper-competitive, Im-hiring-all-your-staff, because-Im-Google environment. Likely if you look at places like New York one would also be able to find examples of starts ups also doing well. You dont have the same levels of fast turnover as a starting point, right? then in Silicon Valley.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

It’s amazing how many proposals I see that are “me too” with only slight or abstract differentiation from other social media sites, ride sharing, or collaboration tools. Examples of being first include Netflix for movies and TV and Redfin for real estate. Ride the network effect to more users than anyone.

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