Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2013

Investors hear this as trying to do too many things with limited resources, meaning the startup will not shine at anything, and will not survive the competition. Realistically frame the competition. If you really believe that IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle are your competition, you probably don’t have a business.

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Startup Competition Technical Review Oracle 103

Frank Addante

MAY 23, 2012

When prompted by his dad, the boy--let's call him Andrew--told me about the yo-yo business he had founded with a classmate. The dad was, of course, alluding to Google's frequently-used strategy to make available free services in otherwise paid markets to rattle competition and gain market share for advertising-supported products.

Oracle 111

Oracle Google Competition Marketing 111

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

By going on sales calls you pick up directly the feedback of what customers want and also what they’re telling you about competition. You’re also learning directly about the skills of your sales staff by observing them in action. Similarly I liked to keep myself apprised of the technical decisions we were making.

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Startup CTO Coach Technical Review CTO Hire 308

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. Exposure instills the fear and urgency you need to deliver the right competitive solution. If you’re about to devote your professional life to building a business, and ready to sacrifice the blood, sweat, and tears it requires, seriously consider this question.

Startup 97

Startup Technical Review Oracle Software Review 97

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

We spoke with the firm's CEO and co-founder, John Hanna : How'd you end up starting the company, and what is FunnelSource all about? I'd used every CRM tool out there--Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft--you name it, I've used it. We're developing this to also work with Microsoft Dynamics and Oracle in the future.

Oracle 145

Oracle Sales Startup Screening 145

Frank Addante

MAY 23, 2012

When prompted by his dad, the boy told me about the yo-yo business he had founded with a classmate. When prompted by his dad, the boy —Andrew —told me about the yo-yo business he had founded with a classmate. The biggest lesson I learned here was about competing with “free.”

Oracle 63

Oracle Google Competition Marketing 63

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2012

A 2011 McKinsey Global report says Big Data is the next frontier for innovation,competition and productivity, this could be reason the seasoned investors and executives believe these are big data days. Big Data Shift. Strong Network, Operational Experience and Technical Background. Doors open.

Technical Review 74

Technical Review Entrepreneur Oracle Software Review 74

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. Exposure instills the fear and urgency you need to deliver the right competitive solution. If you’re about to devote your professional life to building a business, and ready to sacrifice the blood, sweat, and tears it requires, seriously consider this question.

Startup 109

Startup Technical Review Oracle Software Review 109

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

Sure, you need to be competitive on price. Sales people will always tell you how far ahead the competition is. That stuff is for Oracle or IBM. Seriously, you DO need to be careful about not setting unattainable quotas. Sales people will often blame your pricing. They lost the deal because your competitors dropped price.

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Sales Help Startup Pricing 382

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2016

Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness. Larry Ellison (Oracle) preferred candidates who had accomplished something genuinely difficult over one with formal qualifications. Great leaders provide opportunities and personal growth assignments that go far beyond conventional training programs. Marty Zwilling.

Oracle 53

Oracle Organization Entrepreneur Examples 53

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2013

In reality, building a solution won’t make it connect with customers, manage competition, or communicate and proselytize the offering in the industry. We can’t worry about making money until we get it built.” “Marketing is fluff and selling is black magic.” The old adage, “If we build it, they will come” came from engineers.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Oracle Customer Custom 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. Exposure instills the fear and urgency you need to deliver the right competitive solution. If you’re about to devote your professional life to building a business, and ready to sacrifice the blood, sweat, and tears it requires, seriously consider this question.

Sites 59

Sites Startup Technical Review Oracle 59

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

In reality, building a solution won’t make it connect with customers, manage competition, or communicate and proselytize the offering in the industry. We can’t worry about making money until we get it built.” “Marketing is fluff and selling is black magic.” The old adage, “If we build it, they will come” came from engineers.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Oracle Customer Custom 104

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. Exposure instills the fear and urgency you need to deliver the right competitive solution. If you’re about to devote your professional life to building a business, and ready to sacrifice the blood, sweat, and tears it requires, seriously consider this question.

Startup 102

Startup Technical Review Oracle Entrepreneur 102

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

We caught up with Therese to hear about her company and why it's growing. How much competition is there in this space with people like Oracle, SAP, etc? It's all about transactions going back and forth. You'd think that SAP would have a module, or surely Oracle has a module. Therese Tucker: Here's the difference.

Startup 124

Startup Software Review CTO Hire Oracle 124

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

I’ve talked many times on my blog about how they’re the lifeblood of most businesses – even those that pretend like they’re above it all. Sure, you need to be competitive on price. Sales people will always tell you how far ahead the competition is. That stuff is for Oracle or IBM. And finally.

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Sales Startup Pricing Customer 316

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

Chris Dixon provided some commentary on Twitter that he believes I missed “the most important point about fund size.&# He’s specifically referring to his point of view that entrepreneurs shouldn’t take seed money from “big VC’s&# (he defines them as > $100 million). As always it comes down to competition.

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Venture Capital Seed Funding Pricing Invest 265

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2010

How will the inevitable changes in markets, consumer behaviors, and competitive offerings affect outcomes? Don't worry about structuring things into a business plan yet. Outcomes: This is your vision of the future outcomes if things go according to plan. How much of your product will you sell each year over the next five years?

Startup 91

Startup Oracle Entrepreneur Ideas 91

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. We've heard quite a bit about your mentoring efforts here, can you talk about that?

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Cisco, Oracle, Apple, Electronic Arts and Atari. Outwit the competition. Take the contrarian route.

Company 40

Company Companies Startup Venture Capital 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. They have the same trade-off decisions that you do about packing up and moving to Silicon Valley vs. staying and building locally.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

and listening for about 90 seconds. for two minutes talking about why I think people wrongly obsess about their number of Twitter followers and had a nice little debate about it with Guy. Think about the creative tension. We care about all of you and will do our best minimize the fallout to anybody.&#.

Acquisition 287

Acquisition Develop Development Conference 287

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

He spent nearly five years at each of Salesforce.com and Oracle and was an Area VP at Salesforce leading sales efforts at some of the largest clients that Salesforce.com has. Think about Snapchat. With Tact we have been able to drive weekly usage about 75% because they are using it regularly on their mobile devices.” Why Invest?

Software 105

Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

This had an impact on the 2008 election where apparently groups of DIGG publishers would promote positive stories about Obama and negative stories about Hillary Clinton (sound familiar?). Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?” I asked Jonah about this. “I He thinks the very nature of video is changing.

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Buzzfeed Media Content News 210