Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Bill Gates, for example, maintained an information sharing relationship with Warren Buffett for many years, and both will attest to the learning they achieved from the other. Use networking, the Internet, and personal contacts to really understand the ‘how’ and ‘why’ behind related success stories.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Nearly all new businesses aspiring to reach meaningful scale require some sort of outside funding to finance a competitive growth trajectory. Make your business model your competitive differentiation, like Fred Smith with Federal Express, or Ingvar Kamprad with IKEA. True business titans deliver both invention and innovation.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2016

Right now, you might rely on your friends�or maybe get an inkling of an idea from forecasts�but there's no way to know unless you get some real time information. Los Angeles-based goFlow is hoping to make that inforamtion as easy as checking out an app, tapping into a crowdsourced network of outdoor sports enthusiasts.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

The volume of Tweets is enormous and growing at a rapid pace so tools are emerging to help brands manage this information. On Facebook (and nearly all social networks that preceded it) the relationship was always reciprocal – if I accept your invitation to follow me then I have to follow you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Nearly all new businesses aspiring to reach meaningful scale require some sort of outside funding to finance a competitive growth trajectory. Make your business model your competitive differentiation, like Fred Smith with Federal Express, or Ingvar Kamprad with IKEA. True business titans deliver both invention and innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

As outlined a while back by Adam Holden-Bache on Social Media B2B , I’m convinced that business-to-business has more money and more untapped opportunities, still waiting to be found: Find strategic partnerships. See who checks into your competition. Track the competition. Broadcast sponsorships and advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

If you are looking for funding and customers for your new business, you need to identify your “unique selling proposition” (USP) right up front, in 30 seconds or less, to differentiate yourself in today’s information overload. Ideally the solution embodies intellectual property that you own, giving you a sustainable competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

Love that sustainable competitive advantage. Working on that unique design, or completing the breakthrough for an innovative patent, are moments of inspiration that you will never forget, especially if they become your competitive edge. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Both are networks.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It is a platform that allows anyone who offers a service to advertise it for free – we promote this profile on the most popular social networks such as Twitter , Facebook, Google Plus, Pinterest, Stumbleupon and many more. Any competition at the moment and how are you solving it? How does it work? Everyday!

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

Technologists have long believed that marketing is only required when selling the next pet rock, but in this age of information overload, even the most exciting solutions will be lost from view or assumed to have no value unless they are surrounded by hype. The days are gone for those who believe that “If we build it, they will come!”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

Love that sustainable competitive advantage. Working on that unique design, or completing the breakthrough for an innovative patent, are moments of inspiration that you will never forget, especially if they become your competitive edge. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Both are networks.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

ExplorerB2B is a free to join exclusive network of experts who share information that matters to you and make sure you expand your professional network, interact with a relevant audience and present your expertise. This way everybody gets exactly the information and content he/she is interested in. Competition?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2013

Nearly all new businesses aspiring to reach meaningful scale require some sort of outside funding to finance a competitive growth trajectory. Make your business model your competitive differentiation, like Fred Smith with Federal Express, or Ingvar Kamprad with IKEA. True business titans deliver both invention and innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other. Social media as a marketing tool is here to stay, and is now widely accepted. According to a recent article in Entrepreneur , 94% of small and medium businesses (SMBs) now use social media as a marketing tool, and 81% use it to drive growth.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2013

Justin Mateen: The vision for Tinder, is about social discovery. There are plenty of other social networks out there, who do a good job of connecting you with your existing network of friends. There are a lot of mobile dating apps out there, and lots of competition. How did Tinder come about? How has that gone?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. Crowd Gathers for San Diego Tech Coast Angels “Quick Pitch” Competition.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

How excited am I likely to be when I see a plan for a new generation of buggy whip, or another me-too social network? The basic concept has to make some kind of sense given the technical, market and competitive environment, otherwise nothing else matters. BUT good ideas are NOT hard to find. There are millions of them out there.

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Xconomy

JULY 6, 2016

The federal initiative is expected to generate a trove of health information, to be gathered from what Collins called “a rich diversity” of volunteers across the country. One goal is for the information to be two-way: Collins emphasized that participants in the study should have access to their own data and to the study results.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In what is a fairly unusual move, last week, Tradesparq (www.tradesparq.com), a Chinese startup in the area of B2B trade information, said it was planning on setting up its operations here in Southern California, as part of an expansion and scaling of the company. It''s also a dog-eat-dog world over there with the competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2012

Nearly all new businesses aspiring to reach meaningful scale require some sort of outside funding to finance a competitive growth trajectory. Make your business model your competitive differentiation, like Fred Smith with Federal Express, or Ingvar Kamprad with IKEA. True business titans deliver both invention and innovation.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. This might sound a bit off, but I actually thought the movie “The Social Network” did a phenomenal job at depicting the essence a startup. How do you stand out?”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other. Social media as a marketing tool is here to stay, and is now widely accepted. According to a recent social media industry report , 92 percent said that social media is important to their businesses, and more than half report it helped them improve sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Love that sustainable competitive advantage. Working on that unique design, or completing the breakthrough for an innovative patent, are moments of inspiration that you will never forget, especially if they become your competitive edge. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Both are networks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

I was talking a month ago with a founding team who was lamenting the fact that their competitors got way better coverage than they did when they felt that their traffic numbers were > 2x the competition. You need somebody who is helping push out information on what is up-and-coming in the company.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

FreedomSpeaks is a startup developing a business around connecting people with information about their political representatives, and also enabling organizations and others to do the same. What really differentiates us from our competition is the data set we have. Our competition doesn't have that data. It was a pain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2013

There are now many resources out there to guide you on building social media into your business and improving your customer experience, including the book from multicultural marketing expert Kelly McDonald, “ Crafting the Customer Experience for People Not Like You.” Before social networking, an unhappy customer might tell three people.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

This might sound a bit off, but I actually thought the movie “The Social Network,” did a phenomenal job at depicting the essence a startup. If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do, you will have the best experience of your life. You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 18, 2015

Each participating business will open its office for the duration of the crawl, giving you a chance to see where the magic happens and meet the team in an informal setting. Grindr, which first launched in 2009, has exploded into the largest and most popular all-male location-based social network out there.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2015

I’m looking for maniacal, competitive, driven, hard-working, obsessed individuals who are deeply committed to winning in the same way that Kobe Bryant is committed to being at the best in his field. I’m not looking to fund people who err too much on the life side the work/life balance. Why should I expect less?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date. First, I have chosen who to follow on Twitter so the information in my stream is self selected.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your business and gaining valuable online exposure, ultimately bringing in more customers. An informal writing style is generally recommended. Add outgoing links. Create incoming links. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

We told you about young twins behind Social network LAGbook , Today we caught up with two 19 year-old entrepreneurs from Naperville, Illinois. Unfortunately we can’t give too much information about how we’re going to monetize DinnDinn, but what we can say is that the dynamics of web 3.0 Any Competition? will be our guide!

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A research from Indiana University also points that aside from the information and personalization, apps provide the connection between the user and the brand they know and trust. Suddenly, maintaining a company website and a social media account is no longer enough. So what do people like about the mobile app technology?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2010

The legal hiring market is very competitive.” As I have discussed in previous articles, social networking sites like Facebook are now the most frequently used websites on the Internet. According to a December survey by the Ponemon Institute, a privacy research organization, roughly half of U.S.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

They are taking data scientists’ and analysts’ understanding of their information to the next dimension. Their speech recognition software has a high level of accuracy, as though a human was transcribing the information. Tapping into a niche community is part of Quirktastic Media’s competitive advantage. Price: $1.99

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

IngBoo is an online marketplace for information updates-where consumers receive timely updates on relevant topics and web publishers compete effectively for consumer attention. We facilitate the most productive business-to-consumer relationship with a pioneering solution that finally makes proactive information updates useful.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

IngBoo is an online marketplace for information updates-where consumers receive timely updates on relevant topics and web publishers compete effectively for consumer attention. We facilitate the most productive business-to-consumer relationship with a pioneering solution that finally makes proactive information updates useful.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71