Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product. It was heavy on visual development capability but light on modeling and simulation, and we kept battling a competitor in the marketplace who had essentially the inverse strengths in a similar product. Cross endorsement.

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JANUARY 28, 2012

But on the other hand if you have a product with a very high gross margin (software, virtual goods, etc.) I believe in integrated products. I think many recent companies make the mistake of not investing enough in web products, if they invest anything at all. I love using Yelp’s mobile product. I also love Batch.

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OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). It super charges a business that is closer to product delivery.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 21, 2019

She used her meager savings to purchase a sewing machine and began creating dresses from magazine photos, which she sold for $25 each. Realizing the supportive linings represented a stand-alone product, Ida and Enid began giving away one bra for each dress purchased. Innovate Beyond Product Features. Go Against The Flow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2011

As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product. It was heavy on visual development capability but light on modeling and simulation, and we kept battling a competitor in the marketplace who had essentially the inverse strengths in a similar product. Cross endorsement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Talking about competitors is your opportunity to make positive statements about the advantages of your own product. For example, “Compared to product x, my solution will get the job done in half the time, and at half the price.” Don’t say “Product x is more expensive and hard to use.” The best defense is a dynamic product line.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In addition, Entrepreneur Magazine recently included UCSB in its Top 50 Schools For VC Backed Entrepreneurs at number 37. This allowed the curriculum to efficiently find its product / market fit. Apeel Sciences - Founded in 2012, after winning $10,000 at UCSB’s New Venture Competition, the company closed $1.25M in funding during 2013.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

“Made in the USA” is more than just a slogan; it’s a philosophy for business, one that emphasizes the importance of staying within the national economy and creating products of the highest quality. At the same time, it’s a smart manufacturing decision, as American-made quality usually stands head and shoulders above outsourced competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Talking about competitors is your opportunity to make positive statements about the advantages of your own product. For example, “Compared to product x, my solution will get the job done in half the time, and at half the price.” Don’t say “Product x is more expensive and hard to use.” The best defense is a dynamic product line.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

According to a January 2012 article in Forbes Magazine , nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. Innovation is commonly associated with either the introduction of new products or new features added to existing products. We Don't Need No Stinkin' Degrees. "As Look around.

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Jason Nazar

JULY 1, 2016

There’s Not Enough Focus on the Product – New companies are obsessive about product-market fit, because it’s their lifeblood. At scale, product differentiation is taken for granted. When product is focused on, it’s often groupthink committee decisions leading to the most boring and predictable of changes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2010

Talking about competitors is your opportunity to make positive statements about the advantages of your own product. For example, “Compared to product x, my solution will get the job done in half the time, and at half the price.” Don’t say “Product x is more expensive and hard to use.” The best defense is a dynamic product line.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We build products and services tied to mobile carriers. Those technologies allow us to scale and offer a superior product for customers. As you know, publishers are also going through disruption, magazines are going to digital as well as video, and were helping publishers to go and capitalize on the video side of publishing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Minimum Viable Product (MVP). For startup new product development, this is a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature, popularized first by Eric Ries for web applications. It suggests the minimum features to allow the product to be deployed and get feedback, and no more.

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StartUp Beat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

It’s a competition where entrepreneurs take the stage and proceed to pitch their startup ideas and their visions for the future. Winners of the competition receive a fully-paid trip to London and San Francisco, and pre-arranged meetings with venture capitalists in their respective cities. Disrupt SF ( Sep 18-20).

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

While Google still gets stellar reviews for pay, perks and advancement, there are also some employees who note growing pains that you’d expect from such a huge company, including the stress associated with a competitive environment. Takeaway: Even the best culture needs to revisit itself to meet a growing company’s team.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

While Google still gets stellar reviews for pay, perks and advancement, there are also some employees who note growing pains that you’d expect from such a huge company, including the stress associated with a competitive environment. Takeaway: Even the best culture needs to revisit itself to meet a growing company’s team.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

Play it in the background while you otherwise remain productive (or listen to it while you update your FB page, your call). And we hired folks who had previous leadership positions and proof points of being competitive. 2) Congratulations on Entrepreneur magazine recently naming BetterWorks a “ Brilliant Company.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

I felt this myself as we went from a few founders huddled into a tiny room to the front page of the Financial Times, an influx of VC interest, magazine covers, invitations to high-profile events and the pressures of trying to live up to this perception and the economic opportunities everybody expected.

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JANUARY 23, 2011

One of the most frequent questions entrepreneurs ask about when they raise a little bit of money or are getting close to launching their first product is whether they should hire a PR firm. Whether we like to admit it or not, PR drives behavior with customers, investors, employees and competition.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Working with brand partners and viewers, they find that we're providing the content they need in terms of readers and brand partners, such as getting to moms interested in the green movement, moms specifically interested in beauty products, etc--where they can create a more intimate relationship with readers. Lolita Carrico: I think so.

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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.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Many gaming magazines were sold on the strength of their promises to unveil all the latest cheats for new games. Eventually even products entirely devoted to cheating emerged, like the Game Genie cartridge. For several years in the 1990s, cheats were as much a part of gameplay as…well, the actual gameplay.

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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. You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility.

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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.

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MARCH 30, 2010

I don’t intend either, Burstly has respectable and strong competition. He’s a natural leader, appropriately competitive, very customer focused and a pleasure to work with. And this part of the product is entirely free to use. This post is mine and written by me based on my understanding of Burstly. I like that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2021

In that context, I came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine. Offer customized products or services. The points all still ring true today. Seek out established suppliers and channels.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Dan, now named as Product Manager for the Blockchain acquired Zeroblock apps, tells the audience about life after acquisition. Pinguino Kolb – Owner of Spelunk.in , an online crypto currency magazine. Speakers here consisted of: Arianna Simpson – Crypto currency blogger. Bitcoin’s PR War.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Anybody who is able to create a customer relationship online can have some degree of success with Hydra, given that their product is desirable. It's all over the map. Where do you get your inventory, and is that exclusive inventory? We've spent a lot of time, making sure that the right campaigns are in the right rotation with the publishers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Anybody who is able to create a customer relationship online can have some degree of success with Hydra, given that their product is desirable. It's all over the map. Where do you get your inventory, and is that exclusive inventory? We've spent a lot of time, making sure that the right campaigns are in the right rotation with the publishers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. They get involved in hard product decisions. They sign big biz dev deals and get stories written for Future Magazine or TechCrunch. Conviction.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

We manage user login so businesses can focus on core product and engage customers faster. The first online marketplace for successful Kickstarter, maker & hardware startups products. He was fortunate enough to attend three competitions: Atlanta, Sydney and Athens. From: Singapore, Singapore & Hanoi, Vietnam. iWABOO Inc

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Many startups and mature businesses have not yet accepted the fact that customer satisfaction and loyalty in this “always connected” age are about more than product and service quality. They operate like competitive retention, forcing you to win every transaction over competitors. According to Inc. Nobody said it would be easy.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Have you ever had an idea for a great product, but thought any of the following: "I don't have en. Bootstrapping development, minimum viable product, startups. . Building Products While Serving Clients: Why and How. Pedro Galván, Software Guru magazine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Many startups and mature businesses have not yet adapted to the fact that customer satisfaction in this “always connected” age is more than product and service quality. These operate like competitive retention, which means you must win every transaction over competitors. According to Inc. Nobody said it would be easy. Get busy.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. Same goes for television.

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