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Switching costs: A competitive advantage?

Berkonomics

Know the cost to move from your existing platform and estimate the switching costs for moving from a competitor’s product or service to yours. The post Switching costs: A competitive advantage? Do you have an estimate of the cost for a potential customer to switch to your side? And are you prepared to help with concessions if needed?

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6 Keys To Competitive Advantage By Memorable Service

Startup Professionals Musings

In this context, even “satisfied” is only a “meets-minimum,” and does not put you ahead of your competition. This new definition applies equally to brick-and-mortar stores, as well as online platforms. An oversight or deficiency on any platform can easily cancel all other positives, and be hard to overcome.

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6 Key Rules To Stay Competitive In The Digital World

Startup Professionals Musings

In case you hadn’t noticed, the key elements of a competitive advantage for your business have changed as businesses move online, and your domain is instantly global. As a business advisor, I have to recommend even to established companies that they review and revamp their competitive strategy now, even if it appears to be working today.

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Curogram Selected For Publicis Startup Competition

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based health messaging startup Curogram , a new startup developing a web-based, SMS app for the healthcare market, has been selected as a finalist for the Publicis Health Media Disruption Garage Competition, according to the company.

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Performance competition is a good thing

TechEmpower

Not only for the specific achievement, or for the continued performance tuning to come, but also for what it represents : a concerted effort to make the platform provide application developers as much performance headroom as possible. We deeply feel that competition of this sort is a good thing.

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New Competition Looks For Startups Combating Climate Change

socalTECH

A new, startup competition, called the California Climate Cup --run by te Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) and the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF)--says it is looking to identify the most promising startups, globally, who are working on innovations for megacities for zero emission transportation and clean energy.

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CapLinked Launches Pitch Competition

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based CapLinked , the developer of an online platform for managing fundraising and investors, said this morning that it has launched a new pitch competition. The firm said that judges for the competition come form Idealab, Rincon, Rapidfire, and Actarus, including Idealab's Alex Maleki and Rincon's Jim Andelman.