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. So if you have no money then get to work with a small bit of your time building relationships. ” Many CEOs act like VPs of product or CFOs. I do it myself.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 15, 2012

I remember when I first saw one advertised in a magazine when I was on a flight from England to the US. Where Mark Zuckerberg always seems paranoid about competition and industry change – they seemed oblivious to it. I suffered through years of trying to get that gawd-awful browser on the Blackberry to work.

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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. It used to be that entrepreneurs started businesses as a life’s work, a mission. They are also very competitive, and highly value the intellectual property of the Flipper.

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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. Companies work together on segments of their business where they believe they can minimize costs but not jeopardize their unique attributes. Of course, for a strategic alliance to work, you must take precautions.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

While the culture that works for one company might not work for another , you can learn a lot from companies who are doing it right, and get started on company culture hacks of your own. Employees can’t stop talking about how they love working with other smart people. But what sets Twitter apart ? SquareSpace.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

While the culture that works for one company might not work for another , you can learn a lot from companies who are doing it right, and get started on company culture hacks of your own. Employees can’t stop talking about how they love working with other smart people. But what sets Twitter apart ? SquareSpace.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

There is obviously no black-or-white answer, but I’ve tried everything from working a large international agency, to hiring in-house people to doing it myself. All too often I’ve seen senior PR people from big firms come in and pitch for new business to startups while having 22 year-olds who do all the work once it’s won.

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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. Always present a balanced and honest picture.

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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. Overnight Business Success Requires Decades Of Hard Work. The ads showed women in ordinary situations (commuting in a bus, shopping, working in an office, etc.), Innovate Beyond Product Features.

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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. "I was, you know, rebellious, an 18, 19-year old and just did what I wanted to do and all worked out OK." We made some mistakes, but we also had the strength to work our way out."

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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. Always present a balanced and honest picture.

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Jason Nazar

JULY 1, 2016

I’m all for having a healthy respect for competition, but large company employees are often childishly obsessed about what their counterparts are doing. Entrepreneurs blindly forge ahead, often not knowing enough about the competition. It’s the values, work habits & personalities of the people servicing the product and customers.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

However, our early employees loved the fact that we allowed them to bring their dogs to work. 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.” We see two markets.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

It’s the new magazine. That’s a list I plan to work through. (by Use that as a source of competition. Using the fashion-sharing example, imagine turning your shared fashion photos into beautiful magazine-like collages that can be scrolled through, Pinterest style. FourSquare in the future? I hope so.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

I was working with sponsors and partners, and finding that they were interested in identifying smaller markets where they could hone in on an audience, versus buying ads on something like iVillage with millions of eyeballs. Is this competitive with Modern Mom? Lolita Carrico: I don't think it's competitive.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

How the website works, is the client goes to the website, and indicates what they need help with. I finished my degree, and we started working on a law app, a question and answer app about law, to find if you were complying with the ethical rules of law. We''ve worked out he bugs, and since then have hired a full time CTO and others.

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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. Always present a balanced and honest picture.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

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. We have a property called Stadium Sports, where we are working with several new leagues to launch services.

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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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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

In the summer of 1985, he was in Jobs’ office when a photographer for Fortune magazine arrived to shoot Steve for an upcoming cover. Another of Mac’s stories highlights the degree to which Steve treated his designs as works of art. As Guy Kawasaki noted in this video interview , hard work is his secret weapon.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” The technology is a work in progress that continues to evolve. Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market. How does it work? from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). I don’t intend either, Burstly has respectable and strong competition.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

We dive into the very beginnings of IconFinder, where Martin’s personal need led him to start the site, to how he was able to fit working on IconFinder into his school projects and all the way to where the site is now and where they are heading. Steffen was working in another startup called 1Calendar and studying as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

In the case of Parachute, like many brands they now give visibility into their sourcing and factories by product types and spend time working with sustainable sources. You see sustainability of farms as a key attribute in The Bouqs or Green & Blacks chocolate. I don’t use the word ‘spectacular’ lightly.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 31, 2011

According to Richard, “Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn’t you have fun at work?” Richard dropped out of school at the age of 16 to begin publishing a magazine targeted to young people, called Student. Every journey, even on that ends in failure, is an opportunity to learn.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Specifically some players were complaining they were over-worked and fatigued and needed rest. A great leader has a strong sense for when the troops can do a big push and work hard for a sustained period of time and when the team needs a break. This only works if you win all the time. We are currently 6-9 this season.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

We had to work with the airlines, because we were going to have this influx of international travelers on two particularly busy days,” Jensen said. “We We had to work with the airlines, because we were going to have this influx of international travelers on two particularly busy days,” Jensen said.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Everything from a lead generated for life insurance, to a new member for dating site True.com, or having a person buying coffee through the mail from Kraft--which is a long term advertiser which has been successful with Hydra--or applying for credit, or signing up for a magazine. It's all over the map. Tell us the story behind the growth?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Everything from a lead generated for life insurance, to a new member for dating site True.com, or having a person buying coffee through the mail from Kraft--which is a long term advertiser which has been successful with Hydra--or applying for credit, or signing up for a magazine. It's all over the map. Tell us the story behind the growth?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Pinguino Kolb – Owner of Spelunk.in , an online crypto currency magazine. Collectively, any feelings of exclusion have come as a natural reaction from working within the broader tech landscape in general, not specifically Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s PR War. Dave asks: “What’s bolshevik in Bitcoin? Escrow applications.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 6, 2015

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. Powell: I have learned so much working to just stay alive! Stacy and I argued about it for some months, before I said OK, let’s try it.

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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. The most effective startups focus on their core competency, and work hard to pick the best of the rest for partners.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

He was fortunate enough to attend three competitions: Atlanta, Sydney and Athens. A service that completes legal work in a few text messages at 60% off normal prices by cutting out fancy law firms and going directly to lawyers. He thought the internet could eradicate a lot of these issues so he started working on the idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. My life changed dramatically.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

magazine , acquiring a new customer costs about five to nine times more than it does to sell to an existing one, and on average, current customers spend 67 percent more than new ones. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2013

magazine , acquiring a new customer costs about five to nine times more than it does to sell to an existing one, and on average, current customers spend 67% more than new ones. These operate like competitive retention, which means you must win every transaction over competitors. According to Inc. Nobody said it would be easy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

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. I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things.

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