Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2024

We also offer some advice for writing your application, to make sure your proposal is as competitive as possible. The competitive program is open to select small businesses and specifically encourages participation from women and socially or economically disadvantaged persons.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 10, 2022

Amazon could substantially expand their dominance over the ecommerce market, as the Seattle-based tech giant has announced the acquisition of Veeqo, a UK-based ecommerce startup. What does this mean for the ecommerce market? Everyone knows that Amazon has been pretty acquisition happy over the last few years. Amazon Acquires Veeqo.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 5, 2024

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2019

The US Federal Trade Commission wants yet more information about the buyout, and overseas, the UK Competition and Markets Authority opened a separate investigation. This past week, antitrust regulators once again delayed Roche’s planned $4.8 billion buyout of gene therapy developer Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

They helped create over 5 million new businesses in 2022, a forty percent increase over the previous year. Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Marty Zwilling

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Among the participants that applied for the online competitions, only a progressed into the semi-finals. Tech.Co: Since launch, what was the most challenging part of gaining market traction? Tech.Co: What was the road like leading up to your initial pitch for the competition? Celebrate Conference in October.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 16, 2020

Raising money during this crisis will be almost impossible, even from friends and family shocked by the stock market declines. But that good news will not help you if you run out of money during the time it takes for these to happen. Do you still need marketing costs when there is no-one out there buying new product?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. It’s time to push decision making down into the organization –insisting that the people closest to the customer and the markets learn and make the decisions. Anything you or your team knows about the market today may change tomorrow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2021

If your innovation is real, it brings added value to the table, so most customers, especially early ones, are willing to pay a premium over competitive products. Later, when that innovation becomes the new norm, you must be prepared to lower your price to meet new competitors. Offering a lower price to penetrate the market.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

While the market isn't short of spritely, innovative entrepreneurs, harsh economic headwinds combined with a pullback in investor spending have made it harder than ever for budding businesses to break through. Verifying Looking for regular tech news straight to your inbox? 2023 hasn't been an easy year to be a startup.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 17, 2017

Let’s examine the relationship between time, quality and competitiveness. There is always a trade-off between cost for testing, time to market and risk of problems. If you are getting the impression from these many insights that complex relationships cause simple problems, you are right. There is little need to reinforce the obvious.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Over 600,000 new businesses were created in the last year, or over one per minute of every day. But for founders who do their homework, the cost of entry is lower and the opportunity is higher than ever.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. A normal VC fund raises a new fund every three years if they are strong performers. That’s money that fuels our startup ecosystems.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

But the bigger truth is the competition is important. We will have two well-funded companies educating the market on why this market opportunity for the $24 billion US storage market is ripe for disruption. years it was hard to get other investors to see this unsexy market as ripe for innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

If you’re a very early stage startup that just raised your first angel money it is very possible that the funding announcement will be your first big tech news. If you believe you have a market-leading position in your product space I would worry a bit less about it. Should I Bundle it With More Juicy News?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

One of the biggest challenges I have as an advisor to tech entrepreneurs is to convince you that marketing is required for your product, no matter how great it is, just to get it found with today’s information overload. A comparable problem is to get entrepreneurs to market themselves, for the same reason. In the new book, “ Convinced!

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

But while competition remains fierce, the advancement and accessibility of smart solutions are making it easy than ever for startups to find their feet. Yet, with so many tools vying for the attention of business owners, navigating the over-saturated market can be overwhelming. From its 4.3-inch

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2018

First is Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, which has spent 16 years and over $2 billion to try to bring an unproven form of medicine, RNA interference (RNAi), to market. Two imminent FDA rulings on two separate drugs aren’t just noteworthy for the patients they’ll help, but the long and winding road their developers have taken to get to this point.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

That data--if you could just find the right piece--could be useful in a number of areas, particularly in the financial markets. Whether that''s for competitive analysis or market analysis, our product is basically able to monitor--on a very large scale--things that are important to your particular company.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 19, 2011

CapLinked , the online platform for private investment funded by members of the “ PayPal Mafia “—announced that it is launching a worldwide pitch competition for entrepreneurs to present their business ideas to a panel of all-star judges from Idealab, Rincon, Rapidfire, and Actarus.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2012

Or do you toss your hat into the ring with an already existing concept, making a clone in hopes to snatch away market share? You have to know your markets, you need to make sure you have qualified people creating the product, and you need to find something that’s going to make you stand-out in comparison to all the other noise out there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The challenge is that too many are confused on what that means for them, and what it takes to make their business competitively agile. These authors, and I agree, define agility in business as the ability to detect and assess changes in the competitive world in real time, and then take decisive and effective action.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

At the Upfront Summit this past week there was an electric interview of Fred Wilson led by well-researched and artful Dan Primack of Fortune Magazine that ended up making news. Of course you should read the book so I don’t bastardize his arguments but two (of the six) guiding principles come down to competition and science.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2021

With every business being global in scope and always-on, a phone-in service available in a local time zone during work hours only, is not competitive. Customer service is a key part of the marketing budget. In the past, most companies treated customers like yesterday’s news – once they have the sale, the effort decreased.

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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. You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2019

I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. It’s time to push decision making down into the organization –insisting that the people closest to the customer and the markets learn and make the decisions. Anything you or your team knows about the market today may change tomorrow.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? PlayVS supports high school e-sport athletes and celebrates competitive e-sports, allowing any student enrolled in high school to join a team and compete online, with no limit to unique teams per high school and without having to tryout.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Let me start with the news that I’m excited to share with you. Thus began my marketing campaign. Competitive (Athlete: skier & rowed at Princeton, hates losing at everything she does). I have known Kara for 7 years and knew almost immediately after meeting her that I wanted to work with her one day in some capacity.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Public relations sets you apart from the competition. Coverage in important publications or on TV can ensure your organization stands out from the competition as a clear market leader. An ongoing stream of well-placed articles keeps your organization top-of-mind with key decision-makers.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Public relations sets you apart from the competition. Coverage in important publications or on TV can ensure your organization stands out from the competition as a clear market leader. An ongoing stream of well-placed articles keeps your organization top-of-mind with key decision-makers.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Despite that apparent hunger, two scooter operators – Lyft and Spin – recently exited the Los Angeles area, blaming a lack of favorable regulations and too much competition, which apparently made it difficult to turn a profit. What type of market, if any, is the right one? Paris: To ban or not to ban? Frustrated.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. The idea emerged from that real life pain in the market, and as we like to say, we've grown incrementally from there.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

BlackTech Week was created in 2014, and in four short years, they’ve gained over 2700 participants, 150 speakers, and 3 pitch competitions. Indiegogo is a platform for ground breaking technology and where you can find interesting products that haven’t hit the mainstream market. iFundWomen (New York, NY).

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. When should a VC invest?

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