Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2015

He has written numerous books and articles for entrepreneurs and investors, and was the publisher and editor-in-chief of Venture Magazine. Being one or the other is neither good nor bad, but the needs and investment considerations are very different. They also tend to have invested more of their own money in their businesses.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Equity Competition Pricing 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

For example, if you're selling a travel magazine, you could add a free travel video when someone buys a subscription. You're now targeting people who want the travel magazine and those that want the specific video you are giving away. They may have the finances you need and are ready to invest in a business area they know.

Company 96

Company Companies Startup Examples 96

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. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article. Add outgoing links.

Blogging 88

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 88

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Do your homework ahead of time on all potential competitors you can find on the Internet, from industry magazines, advisors, and team members. Make it clear that you have considered competition in the broadest sense, including indirect competitors and alternative solutions available. Remember that investors invest in people first.

Startup 100

Startup Competition Patents Training 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2011

For example, if you're selling a travel magazine, you could add a free travel video when someone buys a subscription. You're now targeting people who want the travel magazine and those that want the specific video you are giving away. They may have the finances you need and are ready to invest in a business area they know.

Startup 90

Startup Examples Customer Custom 90

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Do your homework ahead of time on all potential competitors you can find on the Internet, from industry magazines, advisors, and team members. Make it clear that you have considered competition in the broadest sense, including indirect competitors and alternative solutions available. Remember that investors invest in people first.

Startup 102

Startup Competition Patents Training 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2011

Even the main industry rag, Online Dating Magazine , admits that the success rate is a mere one percent, compared to an estimated fifty percent for startups in general. Here are six key reasons, from a business perspective: Direct competition is huge. Online dating sites usually fail because online dating usually fails.

Sites 91

Sites Social Network Competition Patents 91

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2013

Even the main industry rag, Online Dating Magazine , admits that the success rate is a mere one percent, compared to an estimated fifty percent for startups in general. Here are six key reasons, from a business perspective: Direct competition is huge. Online dating sites usually fail because online dating usually fails.

Sites 86

Sites Social Network Networking Patents 86

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

I think many recent companies make the mistake of not investing enough in web products, if they invest anything at all. It’s the new magazine. Use that as a source of competition. BUT (and this is a big but …). I believe in integrated products. Thus I endorse Web Second. MVP on mobile then hit web.

Web 334

Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

You decide how much you want to invest in your employees and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves. And we hired folks who had previous leadership positions and proof points of being competitive. For me, it comes down to the right people – I usually invest in teams.

Summary 246

Summary Tips Sales Entrepreneur 246

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. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article. Add outgoing links.

Blogging 69

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 69

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2010

Do your homework ahead of time on all potential competitors you can find on the Internet, from industry magazines, advisors, and team members. Make it clear that you have considered competition in the broadest sense, including indirect competitors and alternative solutions available. Remember that investors invest in people first.

Startup 89

Startup Competition Patents Entrepreneur 89

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Is this competitive with Modern Mom? Lolita Carrico: I don't think it's competitive. Brands are definitely investing it in the women and mom's space. We don't think of ourselves as mommy bloggers, Gloss is not a blog but really an online magazine and community. We're also investing a lot in video.

Networking 230

Networking Social Media Startup Search Engine Optimization 230

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

The Bitcoinference served as day 1 of 2 for 500 Startups’ “Commercism” series, with an official agenda that covered industry happenings, social dynamics, and a look into the investment environment. Pinguino Kolb – Owner of Spelunk.in , an online crypto currency magazine. Getting Things Started.

Startup 104

Startup Venture Capital Draper Invest 104

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. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article. Add outgoing links.

Blogging 95

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Writing 95

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

It’s why in this article I advise that people “market today not futures” because you don’t want your playbook in the hands of the competition. Who cares if they know what you’re delivering today – that’s all about execution. I do it myself. If I can do it – so can you.

Press 319

Press Startup Writing Training 319

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. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article. Add outgoing links.

Blogging 96

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing Social Network 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors. As entrepreneurs and business people, it behooves us all to understand and adopt changes which can improve our competitiveness and impact.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Curation is obviously also a form of competitive advantage for companies like StitchFix, TrunkClub and DailyLook who offer stylists to help you curate your clothing experiences. A well-curated box where choice & style come into play is very hard to make generic and therefore this company has enjoyed spectacular growth.

Product 296

Product Course Customer Custom 296

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

As part of that, we started asking professors for recommendations on who we could talk to, and we found out they only knew one person, or told us to check out a magazine, or Google this and that. We''re talking about an industry which is very competitive, first, and two, one that people overwhelmingly try to avoid.

Help 240

Help Startup CTO Hire Pricing 240

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. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article. Add outgoing links.

Blogging 91

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Services Writing 91

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2010

Here are a few of the reasons, from a business perspective: Direct competition is huge. Online Dating Magazine estimates that there are more than 2,500 online dating services on the Internet in the USA with 2-3 new services opening every single day. But make no mistake about it, this is a tough market to enter at this stage.

Sites 49

Sites Social Network Statistics Patents 49

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. In fact, 90% of our investments are either Seed or A-round investments (10% are B-round). We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. That’s healthy.

Startup 150

Startup Coach Course Invest 150

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. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article. Add outgoing links.

Blogging 48

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Startup Writing 48

InfoChachkie

APRIL 6, 2015

To go into production, I needed to build hundreds of molds and invest in a cost effective quantity of wheels. I was, however, very competitive when I was young, and had played football in high school well enough to get scholarship offers from what would be called division 1 schools in today’s world.

Mentor 100

Mentor Pacific Palisades Startup Class 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. Imagine Apple without Steve Jobs. Or less obvious, imagine Facebook without Sheryl Sandberg.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

How I Think About Seed Investing As A VC - Feld Thoughts , August 2, 2010 Last week saw an explosion of discussion around seed investing, including plenty of negative comments around VCs as seed investors. Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.”. and Flipboard.

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Pedro Galván, Software Guru magazine. Collaboration Over Competition: Competitors as Business Partners. It's generally thought that investment banking and management consulting are terrible backgrounds fo. Entrepreneurism / Monetization competition, ecommerce, small business. . A Look at Latam Media Startups.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It’s an important film and the most important topic of our generation if we as a country want to remain competitive in a world that has globalized. We have doubled our national investments per child in education (in real terms i.e. adjusted for inflation) and our scores have remained flat. Please go see the film.

Class 340

Class Education Technical Review Writing 340

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

If you ask me, I think it’s one of the companies that has led and will continue to lead the transformation of media from a lethargic print-based (newspapers, magazines) and linear based (TV) format into the most successful digital media brand of the next decade. An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry.

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210