Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2019

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Tips Competition Organization Marketing 97

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Conventional wisdom in most companies is that “the competition is the enemy&# – it’s the rallying cry to dig deeper, get more features out the door, issue press releases citing differences and attack the competition’s weaknesses in sales presentations. Of course they’re software.

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Cloud Computing Competition Press Startup 320

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Source: hibobbie.com The company also raised an impressive $70 million in funding in June to acquire the legacy pediatric nutrition brand Nature’s One, bringing its total kitty up to $142 million and helping to secure its competitive advantage in the industry going forward. Tome Tome is another AI startup that's been causing a stir in 2023.

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Startup Generative AI Newsletter Tool 210

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Studies of software teams, for example, show differences as great as ten to one in productivity between working team members. It reduces your costs, increases competitiveness, and generally improves the morale and payback to employees. I think you will find the techniques presented here well worth adding to your work ethic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2021

A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. I’ve asked this question many times of presenters in Angel meetings, and often get a blank look.

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Software Review Seed Funding Funding Startup 123

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

Software can be developed “offshore” for a low cost, manufacturing volumes are quickly available from China, and European designs have increased opportunities in every country. At present, no world patents or international patent process really exists, so you need to apply in every relevant country. Don’t try to do it all at once.

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Patents Offshore Startup Demand 106

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Studies of software teams, for example, show differences as great as ten to one in productivity between working team members. It reduces your costs, increases competitiveness, and generally improves the morale and payback to employees. I think you will find the techniques presented here well worth adding to your work ethic.

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Product Activity Study Email 173

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

You can’t start and run a business these days with a working knowledge and access to online and standalone tools, including a word processor, spreadsheet editing, and presentation software. You will also need business management tools, such as Quickbooks, Zoom, and Hubspot. You can’t keep all these in your head.

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Startup Tips Coach Satisfaction 114

socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2018

Writers can submit their scripts into these programs, and the dashboards make it convenient to track, and it also allows them to track placement and their scores in these competitions. Scot Lawrie: I cut my teeth in Philadelphia, developing software in the big data and ad-tech areas. Scot, how did you get into this industry?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. The audience used text messaging to vote for their favorite presentation. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

No board member will truly read and be thoughtful about the entire deck and no team can get through the entire presentation in the meeting. This can include: Fund raising, product development choices, sales, marketing effectiveness, competition, business development, M&A … whatever. There are too many pages.

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Startup Slides Metrics News 226

Berkonomics

AUGUST 30, 2018

It did not hurt that Apple always seemed to trump the competition in design of the product and the product’s user interface too. The moment of truth: Facing the “no decision” competition. We presented our findings. My “way too early” story. I partnered with Texas Instruments, producer of a LISP computer, the TI Explorer.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2014

One local company-- Edmunds.com (www.edmunds.com)--has been very active looking to tap into the innovative spirit in the community through its own hackathons -- days-long, endurance events where teams come together to quickly built and prototype software around a central theme. The point was not to come out of this with any specific thing.

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Edmunds Southern California Ideas Startup 172

Berkonomics

AUGUST 9, 2018

By defining this in terms of gross profit, we can include distributors with 15% gross margins as easily as software companies boasting nearly 100% gross margin. These became so predictable that I could accurately label them as occurring about every $3 million in gross profit (or revenue for service companies).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

A business plan is the outward facing definition of the business you hope to drive with your hardware solution, with a hardware overview in the intro to highlight customer value and competitiveness. Call out your top competitors, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantage, including patents, trade secrets. and trademarks.

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Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Software can be developed “offshore” for a low cost, manufacturing volumes are quickly available from China, and European designs have increased opportunities in every country. At present, no world patents or international patent process really exists, so you need to apply in every relevant country. Don’t try to do it all at once.

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Marketing Patents Offshore Startup 94

Berkonomics

JULY 30, 2011

By defining this in terms of gross profit, we can therefore include distributors with 15% gross margins as easily as software companies boasting nearly 100% gross margin. These became so predictable that I could accurately label them as occurring about every $3 million in gross profit (or revenue for service companies).

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Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

million for the typical Fortune 1000 company, making big data analytics an essential step for a competitive enterprise. Organizations must scale hardware, software, and storage to accommodate this. Gain a Competitive Advantage with Big Data. Baseline researchers found that a 10% increase in data accessibility translates to $65.7

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2013

With software developed, tested and turned in, the results of UCLA Anderson School of Management’s DEV Contest were announced on Sunday afternoon to a room full of smiling faces. Obviously these folks were serious about winning this competition, and had no time to worry about who the guy taking pictures with his iPhone.

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UCLA Ideas Yahoo Competition 96

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2011

I dropped in to check out the contest a few times during the competition and the environment was uplifting and exciting. At the end of the development time allotted for each team, They get up to present their days work. Sparqlight – parts prebuilt before competition. Welcome to the accelerated version of Startup Weekend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. I’ve asked this question many times of presenters in Angel meetings, and often get a blank look.

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Software Review Funding Startup Seed Funding 106

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

I still don’t own any of their software, hardware, or otherwise. Android Apple Gadgets iOS iPhone Mobile Op-Ed apple fans apple keynote competitive market Consumer fingerprint reader Google hardware manufacturers iPhone 3GS iPhone 4 iPhone 5s' Haters gonna hate. appeared first on TechZulu.

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Competition Google Marketing San Diego 99

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Almost every online business I know (eCommerce, online software, mobile games) invests heavily in “customer acquisition” This includes investments often not properly measured (SEO, PR, Social) as well as costs that people measure more precisely (advertising, SEM, FB CPA/CPI ads). For me this was a simple market analysis.

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SEM Content Platform Acquisition 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2019

Much has been written recently about the requirement to focus today on the total customer experience, as a competitive edge or even for survival. Many, like me, would prefer that someone else do the shopping for them, and present them with the best choices currently available. That’s a win-win we can all live with.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In this yearly event put on by the Stevens Center for Innovation , 30 teams, selected from a pool of 70 applicants, presented their unique ideas to crowds of students, parents, and judges. This event was a competition, and judges began making their rounds around noon. We now have a solid proof of concept.”

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USC Ideas Southern California Platform 91

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

Ben Satterfield is the co-founder of TestFlight, an immensely popular piece of software for iOS (and now Android) which lets developers distribute beta copies of their apps to their users. You can load software over the air, just like the app store. The way we go about that is different than the competition. It just made sense.

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Startup Mobile Outsource Development Tool 262

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. We realized that operating a business in distributed markets presented multi-city coordination efforts that we weren’t prepared for.

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Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2012

A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. I’ve asked this question many times of presenters in angel meetings, and often get a blank look.

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Seed Funding Software Review Entrepreneur Funding 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 30, 2012

Produced by the AT&T Developer Program and organized by Alex Donn , this competition is tied to AT&T’s larger, It Can Wait Don’t Text and Drive campaign. On September 7th, Coloft in Santa Monica, California will be hosting the AT&T Mobile App Hackathon.

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Mobile Santa Monica Competition Organization 63

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2015

Software can be developed “offshore” for a low cost, manufacturing volumes are quickly available from China, and European designs have increased opportunities in every country. At present, no world patents or international patent process exists, so you need to apply in every relevant country. Don’t try to do it all at once.

Patents 106

Patents Startup Offshore Demand 106

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

You’ve got to put the competition into perspective. I presented a revised plan that I had created in 24 hours with the help of my team. I flew 12 hours, got off the plane, showered at my hotel and then went into their offices to present. Not lose your cool. In the morning I flew home. That was our first year of sales.

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Entrepreneur Startup GRP Partners Venture Capital 298

Berkonomics

AUGUST 18, 2011

So I set about partnering with a small group of MIT graduates to produce specialized decision software for the hotel industry using the “LISP” programming language, created just for decision-making, allowing for coding inductive and deductive logic into the software. We presented our findings, and waited for the GM’s response. “I

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Artificial Inteligence Pricing Design Product 214

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well.

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Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2012

Smart technology doesn’t work without clever software to make it useful. Niche apps can usually demand a higher price point because there isn’t much competition out there. Having competition isn’t a bad thing. As any investor will tell you, competition in a space means that there is a need for a solution.

Marketing 97

Marketing Startup Software Review Competition 97

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Founded by James Reinhart out of Harvard Business School (semi finalist in annual business plan competition). ITA Software. Watch the show! We covered ‘em all.

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Venture Capital Mission Ventures Capital Help 242

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Yet we all know that many customers delay their adoption of the latest software platform, and fancy new hardware, for a year or two until all the “kinks” are worked out of them. In reality, new technology alone is often assigned a negative value, as startups push out alpha and beta products earlier and earlier in the competitive rush.

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Technology Entrepreneur Customer Custom 109

socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

We worked on Beatshare at Chapman, where there was a business plan competition, which we won. From there, we went on to a national competition, California Dreamin, which had over 200 entrants from multiple universities, with undergrad, graduate, and postgraduates from all around the country for three days, and we got second place.

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Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach Startup Pasadena Angels 100