Competition Funding Pricing Technology 
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 18, 2022
Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. That says you are competitive today, have a real barrier to entry, and the potential to remain ahead of the competition for a long time.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 14, 2019
Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. That says you are competitive today, have a real barrier to entry, and the potential to remain ahead of the competition for a long time.
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Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 14, 2021
Competition for your new hydrogen fuel auto engine is not limited to other hydrogen auto engine offerings, or even other autos. All of these are competitors in terms of speed, price, or luxury. Investors are looking for technology, process, or business model breakthroughs, to move costs to a new level.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Technology solutions are now used by authoritarians to monitor and control populations, to stymie an individual company’s economic prospects or to foment chaos through demagoguery. What Has Changed in Financing?
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
They might not actively “collude&# and say “let’s collectively keep the price down&# but in the resulting discussion pricing information will flow – whether intentional or not. They’re not in search of price fixing or collusion, they’re in search of diligence information about the company.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
<== Our conclusion was that this isn’t a temporary blip that will swiftly trend-back up in a V-shaped recovery of valuations but rather represented a new normal on how the market will price these companies somewhat permanently. When you look at how much median valuations were driven up in the past 5 years alone it’s bananas.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. I was in it for the love of working with entrepreneurs on business problems and marveling at technology they had built. It was a way to make it hard for your competition to compete. And it changed the culture.
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