Frank Addante

MAY 23, 2012

A good product is always more valuable than the free alternative, even when you sell yo-yo upgrades. 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

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. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. Exposure is another key ingredient.

Startup 97

Startup Technical Review Oracle Software Review 97

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Let me start with Professor Christensen’s definition: “An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumers access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.&#. They offered a product that didn’t even try to compare with Siebel.

Startup 376

Startup Framework Marketing Customer 376

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. They like a solid product, well defined pricing, good references to sell against, a clear quota and well defined competitors. They are as good at selling you as they are at selling your product to customers. Sales people often blame the product.

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Sales Startup Pricing Customer 316

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Think of it kind of like running a national chain of restaurants and occasionally stopping in to wait tables to have a more intuitive sense for your processes, work conditions and the quality of your products. I then spent time with the VP Product Management to understand his functional roadmap and his perception of what customers wanted.

Startup 308

Startup CTO Coach Technical Review CTO Hire 308

Frank Addante

MAY 23, 2012

A good product is always more valuable than the free alternative, even when you sell yo-yo upgrades. If companies were not able to compete with free, Microsoft would have been crushed by Linux, Oracle by MySQL, and the dot-com boom would have wiped out half of the world’s brick and mortar economy.

Oracle 63

Oracle Google Competition Marketing 63

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

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. Say you had ten sales reps, and you wanted a competition to see who could get the highest percentage of the quota--you can put them together and see it.

Oracle 145

Oracle Sales Screening Startup 145

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. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. Exposure is another key ingredient.

Startup 109

Startup Technical Review Oracle Software Review 109

InfoChachkie

MAY 23, 2011

Excludesivity is most salient when you are crafting an initial relationship within a particular market or product segment. Product lines / features – if you sell a line of products, consider limiting excludesivity to a particular product or even a product feature.

Technical Review 183

Technical Review Marketing Sales Competition 183

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. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. Exposure is another key ingredient.

Sites 59

Sites Startup Technical Review Oracle 59

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. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. Exposure is another key ingredient.

Startup 102

Startup Technical Review Oracle Entrepreneur 102

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2010

Execution: Execution - the hard task of turning ideas into products that people will buy - is what separates successful entrepreneurs from dreamers. What is your plan for completing the development of your product and getting it ready to market? What does the product cost to manufacture? How do you manufacture and distribute it?

Startup 91

Startup Oracle Entrepreneur Ideas 91

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

It was the fact that the Seven-Up Company defined its product by describing what it was not , via the “UnCola” label. We also incurred substantial software licensing charges from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle. Overnight, “maaarvelous,” spoken in an exaggerated Caribbean accent, became a national catchphrase.

Entrepreneur 157

Entrepreneur Invest Funding Capital 157

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

It was the fact that the Seven-Up Company defined its product by describing what it was not , via the “UnCola” label. We also incurred substantial software licensing charges from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle. It was the fact that the Seven-Up Company defined its product by describing what it was not, via the “UnCola” label.

Cloud Computing 140

Cloud Computing Entrepreneur Invest Funding 140

Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Cisco, Oracle, Apple, Electronic Arts and Atari. Focus Customers will only buy a simple product with a singular value proposition.

Company 40

Company Companies Startup Venture Capital 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

As always it comes down to competition. When I was first starting companies in the late nineties it took $3 million just to get version one of our product out the door. We had to buy expensive Sun servers, Oracle databases, Unix licenses and build complex software. I’m sure this happens, too.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Seed Funding Pricing Invest 265

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

Every new business or product owner wants to attract the broadest possible audience, so they are prone to adding more features, multiple sales channels, and appealing to every demographic. Focus means creating a minimum viable product (MVP) first, and validating it in the marketplace. Realistically characterize the competition.

Entrepreneur 63

Entrepreneur Competition Customer Custom 63

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. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

(Part I, Team) Tact was founded by Chuck Ganapathi , who was formerly the SVP of Products at Salesforce.com having led initiatives like their chat product, CRM and mobile. For six years before that he was at Siebel who was the market leader in CRM before Salesforce, and he has both a masters in product design from Stanford and an MBA.

Software 105

Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter. Often these were things that would make Salesforce more competitive vis-a-vis Oracle and Microsoft.

Acquisition 287

Acquisition Develop Development Conference 287

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. He thinks the very nature of video is changing.

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Buzzfeed Media Content News 210