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7 Keys to Positioning Your Competitors to Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Being first to offer something is often used to cover the fact that you have no patent or intellectual property. Do your homework ahead of time on all potential competitors you can find on the Internet, from industry magazines, advisors, and team members. Don’t say “Product x is more expensive and hard to use.”

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How You Talk About Competitors Speaks Volumes

Startup Professionals Musings

Being first to offer something is often used to cover the fact that you have no patent or intellectual property. Do your homework ahead of time on all potential competitors you can find on the Internet, from industry magazines, advisors, and team members. Don’t say “Product x is more expensive and hard to use.”

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This Immigrant Entrepreneur Launched Her Billion Dollar Empire, Despite Speaking No English

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She used her meager savings to purchase a sewing machine and began creating dresses from magazine photos, which she sold for $25 each. In 1917, Mary Phelps Jacobs was granted patent 1,115,674 , which states, “This invention relates to improvements in brassieres.” (sic). Overnight Business Success Requires Decades Of Hard Work.

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Competitor Traps Every Startup Pitch Should Avoid

Startup Professionals Musings

Being first to offer something is often used to cover the fact that you have no patent or intellectual property. Do your homework ahead of time on all potential competitors you can find on the Internet, from industry magazines, advisors, and team members. Don’t say “Product x is more expensive and hard to use.”

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing. For the first three years, it was all about research and development, building IP and patents and so forth.

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

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Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” They have built proprietary ad serving, video serving and image recognition technology, complete with patents, and invented in-image advertising. He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S.

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6 Reasons Starting Another Dating Site May Be Tough

Startup Professionals Musings

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. It’s hard to invent and patent more “scientific” methods on how to match people.

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