socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2015

San Diego-based Qualcomm said Thursday that it is doubling the size of its QPrize annual investment funding competition, and will now award $250,000 in convertible note financing to regional winners, with an additional $250,000 to grand prize winners. This will be the fifth year of the competition. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Both are required to stay competitive. 57 million workers identified themselves as freelancers in 2019, up 4 million since 2014. The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2019

According to Radicle Growth, it made the investment in WeedOUT as part of the Radicle Challenge Israel, a competition to identify the most promising agtech and foodtech startups in Israel.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

2020 seems like a decade away into space, however Motreal-based reelyActive, the winner os Startup World Competition , is doing just this. Its novel radio hardware provides a cost-effective, plug-and-play means to identify and locate wireless devices. Hyperlocal context. That’s where they come in.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 20, 2018

We dive into the crucial process of gathering and analyzing information about markets, industries, and products in their competitive spaces. Consumer insights are used to discover areas of opportunity by identifying trends in the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2022

The core message is that real innovation and competitive advantage are more people-based than product or process-based. Every good entrepreneur needs a people-centric focus to ferret out creativity and innovation in his team, and to build a sustainable competitive advantage. Innovators are naturally creative and love new challenges.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Fourth is competitive risk. Once defined, the obvious next step is to role play responses to each challenge, or even to put in place preventative measures well in advance for each identified risk. This consists of two separate risks. First: do you have a significant barrier to entry to keep competitors from undermining your effort?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2012

Porter proposed his Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment which I think makes even more sense today. Every existing business, as well as every startup, needs to reassess their product or service in the context of these five forces: Intensity of competitive rivalry. Way back in 1979, Michael E.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE announced a brand new competition, the $10M Rainforest XPRIZE.

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Artificial Inteligence Competition Study Organization 124

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Exposure instills the fear and urgency you need to deliver the right competitive solution. Exposure is another key ingredient. Exposure to customers, incumbents, and competitors all drive success. What will set your business apart? No one can tell you what to do to create your edge, but it is important that you figure out how you can.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2016

Make this combination a key element of your sustainable competitive advantage. For maximum speed, team morale, and commitment, these new ones need to be developed from hidden leaders on the inside, and complemented by proven leaders recruited from the outside. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2010

In my own effort to keep up with the times, I just finished a new book by Landy Chase, titled “ Competitive Selling: Out-Plan, Out-Think, Out-Sell to Win Every Time.” Establish the competitive playing field early. Identify the inner circle and key influencers. Selling around tough competition. Politics really do matter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

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. Johansen calls this uncovering your right-of-way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Highlight the competitive edge you bring to the market. Use test marketing to identify changes before scale-up. In the chaos of scaling, it’s hard to identify and fix weaknesses before they become a crisis. These advisors need a stake in your success, like a monthly stipend, or an equity share of the business.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Many CEOs have asked me if I felt an investment banker adds value if the buyer has already been identified. And yet, it is almost universally acknowledged that without competition for a deal, the price will be lower, sometimes much lower. How investment bankers behave. Deal books are expensive to create.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2023

The challenge for every entrepreneur and every business is to understand the pragmatics of identifying and reacting to what their customers love and what they hate. If you are looking for a lasting competitive advantage, I recommend that you follow the steps outlined here to create experiences that your customers crave.

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2024

We also offer some advice for writing your application, to make sure your proposal is as competitive as possible. The competitive program is open to select small businesses and specifically encourages participation from women and socially or economically disadvantaged persons.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Think of it as Bloomberg for marketers, in a way that gives smaller companies and teams as much firepower as larger organizations to help them optimize spend across channels and identify new, high-performing opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2022

Identify your current strengths and establish plans for improving. Identify and redirect unhealthy competition and comparisons. Competition sabotages teamwork and leaves feelings of isolation and alienation. Make you the base, not others. Use others as a source of inspiration, rather than envy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Results show that when users are engaged throughout the development process, a number of key system requirements are identified that would otherwise be entirely missed. Full customer experience use cases are key because they help identify interactions between stages of design work. Make user-centered design processes iterative.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2022

A related “red flag” in a business plan is a missing competitive analysis section, or a short paragraph that essentially says, “this product has no competition.” My reaction is, if there is no competition, then there is no market demand for your product, so why are you building it?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In my experience advising businesses, large and small, I have often been surprised by the level of complacency and general malaise I find in the ranks, with a resultant direct loss of productivity and competitiveness. These metrics are also the best way to gauge when your team needs more help, and identifying strong and weak contributors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2023

For a new business, you can provide unique ingredients, but the preparation steps in your business plan must follow a tried and true recipe for startup success: Identify a market with a real need. If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. You can look forward to being a celebrity chef later.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Identify the smallest segments possible of your constituents. Identify the communities for these micro-segments. Identify the influencers of these communities. It’s time for you to learn the best practices of using social media in your company, and putting them to work before your competition puts you out of work.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 25, 2024

If you are lucky enough to create competition among investors for your company, you can select the investor or group with an individual who has experience in your niche and identifies with your vision. How do you pay a coach?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I like his model and examples from the field to help you identify the type of work that is your forte, and will likely bring you joy and energy, rather than frustration and burnout. In my experience, competition is the biggest challenge here. Timing is important, and communication with your customer set is critical.

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Xconomy

APRIL 11, 2019

Financial firms are facing competition from legacy players and disruptive fintech startups as technology continues to reshape the heavily regulated industry. Two financial firms are betting on a nonprofit incubator program in San Diego in hopes of identifying top talent and potential targets for investment or acquisition.

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Berkonomics

JULY 18, 2019

There is a major trend shaping up that is worldwide, already identified by hundreds of thousands of startup and small business CEO’s. Every business has an intellectual foundation where the CEO’s knowledge and vision create a barrier to entry that deflects some or much of the potential competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2023

Every team member needs stimulation to broaden their horizons, correct weaknesses, and understand competitive strategies. Most successful companies I know work hard at identifying high-potential team members , and give them frequent growth assignments to new projects or staff assignments to top executives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

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. Johansen calls this uncovering your right-of-way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The challenge for every entrepreneur and every business is to understand the pragmatics of identifying and reacting to what their customers love and what they hate. If you are looking for a lasting competitive advantage, I recommend that you follow the steps outlined here to create experiences that your customers crave.

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Customer Custom Social Media Satisfaction 158

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Results show that when users are engaged throughout the development process, a number of key system requirements are identified that would otherwise be entirely missed. Full customer experience use cases are key because they help identify interactions between stages of design work. Make user-centered design processes iterative.

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Customer Custom Design Product 150

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

For a new business, you can provide unique ingredients, but the preparation steps in your business plan must follow a tried and true recipe for startup success: Identify a market with a real need. If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. You can look forward to being a celebrity chef later.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2021

Investors know that operational and employee expenses are always higher than anticipated, not to mention customer acquisition costs, capital expenses, and ongoing competitive initiatives. Identify your intellectual property or “secret sauce.” Convince me that you understand your competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2021

While you all recognize that reacting to weak market signals is critical to staying in business and staying competitive, I find that many don’t have the skills and focus to trigger change decisions on a timely basis. Now is the time to take a hard look at your own operation.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 3, 2012

In this 8-minute video excerpt from his recent talk, Seth describes the practical, hands-on methodology that he uses on a day-to-day basis to identify and vet his entrepreneurial ideas. Even though he is not process oriented, he has developed a simple, yet methodical approach to identifying, cataloging and vetting his entrepreneurial ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2022

As with most investors and advisors, I always look first at some key personal characteristics and leadership strategies that I find often make you a more likely survivor and winner in the highly competitive world of businesses, both new and mature. I believe in the old axiom, “ no risk means no reward.”

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