Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2023

Either they are never really ready to commit, study an opportunity until it has passed, or fail with tools and techniques from a bygone business era. The Internet and the current information wave have changed everything. It requires an attitude of self-education, versus an assumption that someone else will provide the education.

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Social Media Startup Entrepreneur Education 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

According to an MIT study a while back, only about 10% of patents granted in the United States have any meaningful commercial importance and less than one percent are of seminal importance. Nearly all new businesses aspiring to reach meaningful scale require some sort of outside funding to finance a competitive growth trajectory.

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Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Competition 171

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2023

In today’s information overload, marketing is everything. Every customer has a sense of what a solution should cost, based on competition, and the cost of doing nothing. A good tack is to sell exclusivity, or provide case studies to show return on investment and productivity.

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Case Study Custom Customer Study 89

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In today’s information overload, marketing is everything. Every customer has a sense of what a solution should cost, based on competition, and the cost of doing nothing. A good tack is to sell exclusivity, or provide case studies to show return on investment and productivity.

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Case Study Startup Custom Customer 174

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

According to a 2015 study from Frost & Sullivan and the (ISC)² Foundation, there could be more than 1.5 Companies around the world are reevaluating their methods for recruiting and retaining top talent and, even in innovation hubs like Boston, there is serious competition for talent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

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. Studying other people’s blogs will help you identify what you like and don’t like, and how you want yours to look and feel.

Blogging 135

Blogging Services Search Engine Optimization Web 135

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Kaplan is a leading expert in building innovation cultures, and speaks from his real-world experience with many companies, as well as academic study. Frequent and informal recognition with peers is the most powerful incentive to innovate and change the culture. Design your invisible competitive advantage.

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Startup Metrics Competition Organization 97

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Unfortunately, what I see in this Internet age is information overload, and new product differentiation is harder than ever before. Case studies, supporting videos, and giveaways still work well in this regard. Skip the old-fashioned marketing hype, such as “leading the market,” “next generation,” and “more user friendly.”

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Social Media Case Study Custom Customer 134

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2020

Either they are never really ready to commit, study an opportunity until it has passed, or fail with tools and techniques from a bygone business era. The Internet and the current information wave have changed everything. It requires an attitude of self-education, versus an assumption that someone else will provide the education.

Social Media 127

Social Media Startup Education Entrepreneur 127

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2016

In modern society we’re all over-worked and over-loaded with information and tasks and to-dos and obligations. These people are like the friend in college who always tempted you by telling you about the latest party when you were at the library studying. That’s why focus is critical.

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Innocal Conference Help Study 255

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

This year we’re in > 100+ cities and 100+ campuses and we’re operational with street teams, better software, better bikes and a more informed ridership. They also were exclusive to Bird so they gave the company a competitive advantage. It really does put things into perspective, doesn’t it? I’ve talked with many campus leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Per the latest study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic has grown 17-fold over the past 5 years, reaching 11.5 You need to start now to understand the trends and specifics of the information tidal wave that is building up in front of us. Make strategic versus opportunistic decisions. Marty Zwilling.

Technology 97

Technology Social Media Startup Entertainment 97

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2018

According to an MIT study a while back, only about 10% of patents granted in the United States have any meaningful commercial importance and less than one percent are of seminal importance. Nearly all new businesses aspiring to reach meaningful scale require some sort of outside funding to finance a competitive growth trajectory.

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Guide Startup Ideas Entrepreneur 95

Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

However, there is still room for competition. In a study conducted at MIT Sloan’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), we found that only 12 percent of large companies (with revenues more than $1 billion) are ecosystem drivers. – Do you have great information about your customers’ goals and “life events”?

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Organization Custom Customer Study 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2011

Yet, according to a study by the Center for Women’s Business Research , the number of female-owned firms is growing twice as fast as all the rest, so women are catching up. Here are key observations from this and other studies: Leadership style. Only one in four companies in the USA today are run by women. Both have their advantages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

According to an MIT study a while back, only about 10% of patents granted in the United States have any meaningful commercial importance and less than one percent are of seminal importance. Nearly all new businesses aspiring to reach meaningful scale require some sort of outside funding to finance a competitive growth trajectory.

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Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Competition 103

Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

In a study from NewVantage Partners, 48.4% This information can enable an organization to create more effective marketing campaigns, improve customer service, discover new opportunities for revenue, and improve operational efficiency. Gain a Competitive Advantage with Big Data. classifying their efforts as a failure.

Organization 59

Organization Competition Networking Custom 59

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Kaplan is a leading expert in building innovation cultures, and speaks from his real-world experience with many companies, as well as academic study. Frequent and informal recognition with peers is the most powerful incentive to innovate and change the culture. Design your invisible competitive advantage.

Startup 81

Startup Metrics Organization Ideas 81

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Yet, according to a study by the Center for Women’s Business Research, the number of female-run firms is growing twice as fast as all the rest, so women are catching up. Distinguishing traits of male leaders are autonomy, independence, and competition, while those of women are relations, interdependence, and cooperation.

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Startup Competition IBM IBM 107

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. But my contact told me that many viral videos start through close networks on Reddit where a degree of formal and informal collaboration of individuals takes place.

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

Through simple design, extensive sensing mechanism research, and behavioral science principles, Moving Analytics is carving out its own innovative niche in a heavily competitive space by providing a simple solution for highly sedentary people. How is Movn different than your competition? You recently conducted a pilot study.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2014

They forget that they became entrepreneurs, according to the “ DNA of an Entrepreneur ” study a while back, for just this flexibility. Other studies show that only about 30% list money as a key benefit of running their own firm. Beat the competition. Competition drives innovation, and innovation drives competition.

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Startup Tips Satisfaction Entrepreneur 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

A business plan is the outward facing definition of the business you hope to drive with your hardware solution, with a hardware overview in the intro to highlight customer value and competitiveness. Call out your top competitors, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantage, including patents, trade secrets. and trademarks.

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Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Your concept clearly is more developed than any of the competition. That means everything that you have done, things that have happen to you, or everything that you have read or seen has an affect on how you process information. The color scheme of your pitch deck obviously will not insure you win a pitch competition.

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Startup Competition Social Media Education 63

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. Studying other people’s blogs will help you identify what you like and don’t like, and how you want yours to look and feel.

Blogging 88

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 88

SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Death By Competitive Analysis - Steve Blank , March 1, 2010 Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product. In response he sent me a competitive analysis. It looked like every competitive analysis I had done for 20 years, (ok maybe better.) And it made me sad.

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Startup Software Review Competition SoCal 150

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

If your B2B contacts are frequenting other non-competitive local businesses, LBS data could point you to more lucrative business partnerships. See who checks into your competition. If you know your contacts’ real-life interests, you could use that information in your marketing efforts. Understand the competition.

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Services Competition Mobile Entertainment 82

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. It seems to me that we obsess too much with product features, sales pipelines, competitive pressures, fund raising and such.

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Coach Technical Review Framework Google 150

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In today’s information overload, marketing is everything. Every customer has a sense of what a solution should cost, based on competition, and the cost of doing nothing. A good tack is to sell exclusivity, or provide case studies to show return on investment and productivity.

Product 95

Product Case Study Custom Customer 95

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Opportunity segmentation and competitive environment. List key competitors and alternatives, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantages, such as patents and trademarks. Current and past titles don’t convey this information. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

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Startup Writing Patents Competition 65

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths.

Startup 106

Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 106

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2015

Either they are never really ready to start, study an opportunity until it has passed, or fail with tools and techniques from a bygone business era. The Internet and the current information wave have changed everything. It requires an attitude of self-education, versus an assumption that someone else will provide the education.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Social Media Startup Education 102

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

These industry veterans have been teaching smaller companies how to compete with digital marketing for many years, and have a wealth of case studies to show it really works. This message is defined as the knowledge or information that will be retained by customers after they are exposed to your company.

Marketing 101

Marketing Startup Case Study Resource 101

socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2013

Similar, we also provide information on what publishers are doing. We had been building technology around a publisher interface, and starting seeing the same things from customers, who wanted to understand what was happening on their site, what their competition was doing, and what advertisers were doing. READ MORE>>.

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Advertising Startup CTO Coach Study 153

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2013

According to a recent MIT study , only about 10% of patents granted in the United States have any meaningful commercial importance and less than one percent are of seminal importance. Nearly all new businesses aspiring to reach meaningful scale require some sort of outside funding to finance a competitive growth trajectory.

Startup 105

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Competition 105

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Per the latest study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic has grown 18-fold over the past 5 years, reaching 7.2 You need to start now to understand the trends and specifics of the information tidal wave that is building up in front of us. exabytes per month at the end of 2016, of which half was video.

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Startup Social Media Entertainment Metrics 55

InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2016

Learning To Learn - A sound college education includes gaining the insights into applying logic, researching data and assessing the veracity information. Nearly all the Professors agreed that students should stay in school, even if their venture is doing well.

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Entrepreneur Case Study Education Seed Funding 150