Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

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. exabytes per month at the end of 2017, of which more than half was video. Accelerate: speed is life in this new world.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

They also were exclusive to Bird so they gave the company a competitive advantage. Turns Out There Are Competitive Moats There were some tech meme’s out there last year that scooter companies had no moats. In the ride hailing market there is a competition for drivers and they eat a large part of the consumers’ fee for a ride.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2019

Let me be clear – a product or consulting startup today without a blog, even with a static website, risks not being competitive in cost and time to reach and hold that critical mass of online customers. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

In fact, a Wharton Business School study in this decade of the “Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years,” concluded that only eight were first conceived by entrepreneurs, and twenty-two were conceived by employees. He created a simple Gmail for internal use, and later it became one of the biggest Google offerings.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Minimal Science / Technology – Other than the technology associated with ecommerce, most successful MBA startups do not rely on technological innovations or fundamental, scientific discoveries to achieve a competitive advantage. That said, a few tech-heavy exceptions include Wildfire, acquired by Google and Behance, purchased by Adobe.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites. Did you have any prior background in this, and what were you two studying?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

This morning’s show took on the topic of “teams” and highlighted research that Julia Rozovsky and Google has conducted called Project Aristotle and profiled in Charles Duhigg’s book Smarter, Faster, Better. ” It seems strange to me that we don’t take team dynamics more seriously at startups.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And let's face facts, we normally are talking Google search. If you don't know the basics here, go look at Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide (PDF). Off Page SEO The other aspect of SEO is at its most basic, how many pages with decent Google Page Rank point to you using anchor text that helps you with optimization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

Let me be clear – a product or consulting startup today without a blog, even with a static website, risks not being competitive in cost and time to reach and hold that critical mass of online customers. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

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. Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM. This is based on “price elasticity” and you can google that to understand it better. Competition. If you want to succeed you need to study the competitors. Study your history.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Piaw Na, who spent over six years at Google, writes on Quora that she recommends fresh grads to join a startup instead of big companies. Between cutbacks and competition from other potential employees, landing that dream job – or any going for that matter – is a bit of a challenge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Let me be clear – a product or consulting startup today without a blog, even with a static website, risks not being competitive in cost and time to reach and hold that critical mass of online customers. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

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. exabytes per month at the end of 2016, of which half was video. Make strategic versus opportunistic decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

Let me be clear – a product or consulting startup today without a blog, even with a static website, risks not being competitive in cost and time to reach and hold that critical mass of online customers. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank.

Blogging 96

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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. In a recent study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 81% in 2013 and will reach 1.3

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Good examples of startup focus before success include Google with their search engine, Facebook with friends networking, and Apple with personal computers. Maintain an intimate knowledge of the competition. Study their moves and engage your team for an analysis of updates.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In fact, the incumbent is usually very dismissive of this new competition as our the large buyers of the incumbent’s products. About how Microsoft viewed Google Apps. earned handsomely from Google’s success. And weirdly the buyers of this technology often have a vested interest in buying from the incumbent.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. First off the two prezis and then the case study material (i used ERPLY as inspiration). Lots to learn from him.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

Google has its own home energy monitoring project, PowerMeter - is this competitive or different? Google is doing a web presentment tool, taking data from utility companies. Google is tied to the utility, which only has one hour granularity, and only the next day. Kevin Strong: This is really different.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2013

It also shows that survival prospects are higher if the owner has at least four years of college, like Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, and Andrew Mason of Groupon. " Study entrepreneurship, but major in something else. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

Let me be clear – a product or consulting startup today without a blog, even with a static website, risks not being competitive in cost and time to reach and hold that critical mass of online customers. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank.

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Blogging Search Engine Optimization Services Writing 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012. Even the Google search engine crawlers may take up to two weeks to find you. People are more distracted than ever, and competition has never been greater.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

I was happy to see a real focus on preparing for tomorrow highlighted in a new book, “ Start a Successful Business ,” by Colleen DeBaise, who has made a career of studying and writing about entrepreneur challenges. Tomorrow is never mentioned in the pitch. Use tools and analytics to identify trends and directions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Yet, based on my own years of experience “in the business”, mentoring many entrepreneurs, and following stalwarts like Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, even these potentially controversial mindsets ring true to me: All risk isn’t risky. Doing your homework first is one of the best ways to get an advantage over your competition.

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Entrepreneur Startup Customer Custom 107

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2011

It also shows that survival prospects are higher if the owner has at least four years of college, like Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, and Andrew Mason of Groupon. " Study entrepreneurship, but major in something else. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Course Education 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2016

Good examples of startup focus before success include Google with their search engine, Facebook with friends networking, and Apple with personal computers. Maintain an intimate knowledge of the competition. Study their moves and engage your team for an analysis of updates.

Startup 59

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Metrics 59

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 Also, you mentioned an interesting rails session that you attended last month about security, and we've been studying Google's web app security guidelines. billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Excite, MSN and eventually Google. If you’re negotiating with Samsung you can imagine they have Apple on their minds and if you’re negotiating with Twitter you can imagine they have eyes on Facebook, Google and even Snapchat. So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!,

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

According to a recent study done by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were 565,000 new businesses created per month in 2010 in the US alone, which is a 15-year high. Even the Google search engine crawlers may take up to two weeks to find you. People are more distracted than ever, and competition has never been greater.

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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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Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review USC 82

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A recent study by Nielsen showed that an average American adult spend some 34 hours per month using mobile internet on smartphones compared to 27 hours via personal computer. Google followed immediately and introduced Android. Just one year after their respective launches, Apple and Google exceeded one billion app downloads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Let me be clear – a product or consulting startup today without a blog, even with a static website, risks not being competitive in cost and time to reach and hold that critical mass of online customers. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank.

Blogging 48

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Startup Writing 48

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Leading advertising networks like Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google Affiliate Network, ShareASale and many others license our platform to help their advertisers and publishers easily create, manage, track, and optimize call-based advertising campaigns.”. Who do you view as your biggest competition? You’re right.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

Every time I approached Network Solutions (or any technical group in Accenture) they wrote me off as “a business guy” since I studied economics and was on the Accenture “business track.” Neither became Google but I figured I had learned quite a bit about taking a company from cradle to grave.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

A Google survey from July 2012 calculated that more than half the small businesses in the US are still without a basic website. With over three billion local search queries in any given month on Google alone, no business can afford not to be on the web. If you are not flexing your digital muscle, your competition certainly is.

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Web Design Web Design Sites 58

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

A Google survey from July 2012 calculated that more than half the small businesses in the US are still without a basic website. With over three billion local search queries in any given month on Google alone, no business can afford not to be on the web. If you are not flexing your digital muscle, your competition certainly is.

Web Design 40

Web Design Web Design Sites 40