Competition Funding Metrics Software Review 
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 2, 2021
In case you hadn’t noticed, the key elements of a competitive advantage for your business have changed as businesses move online, and your domain is instantly global. As a business advisor, I have to recommend even to established companies that they review and revamp their competitive strategy now, even if it appears to be working today.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
There were startups and a software industry but barely. And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. It was a way to make it hard for your competition to compete. There was no money train. It was 1991.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 22, 2023
Competition is not always a bad thing, and the real purpose is often to make the world a better place. Design the full stack, not just a new software element. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric. In Silicon Valley’s classic model, startups must start “asset light.”
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 13, 2022
For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. get the attention of the market they choose.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
I know I must have pitched over 200 people trying to raise funding for the company, and although we had raised $1.7M in funding, we ultimately knew last year that the things we needed to prove investors was not going to happen in the time we had left. So, we decided to shut down the company.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 1, 2020
Competition is not always a bad thing, and the real purpose is often to make the world a better place. Design the full stack, not just a new software element. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric. In Silicon Valley’s classic model, startups must start “asset light.”
socalTECH
JUNE 11, 2018
Writers can submit their scripts into these programs, and the dashboards make it convenient to track, and it also allows them to track placement and their scores in these competitions. Scot Lawrie: I cut my teeth in Philadelphia, developing software in the big data and ad-tech areas. Scot, how did you get into this industry?
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