Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; Real-time search engine.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

If you already have a strong customer base, create a brief survey to help you determine what social media sites they’re using and how to reach them in a targeted way. Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). Assess your target customer demographics.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Startup Tips 108

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2016

However, for an entire generation of employees�particularly, those coming out of school now�saving for retirement is completely overshadowed by the far more pressing, crushing burden of student debt. We launched the site to the public in 2013. This program helps them support their hires, and helps them hire competitive.

Help 100

Help Startup Platform Santa Monica 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

3. We then addressed competition in the context of SiteAdvisor and how it is important for journalists, customers, and the companies themselves. 4. This mention of journalists and how they frame stories led to a quick discussion of how it is important to build meaningful, real relationships with the press (i.e. “be

Technical Review 281

Technical Review Venture Capital Startup Artificial Inteligence 281

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

In other words, you can log into your social media sites like Twitter, log into Instant Messenger and other accounts, and it will pull your contacts and give you a seamless way to organize those contacts. What has set us aside from the competition, is we built our own back end telco platform. It is a competitive environment.

Social Network 259

Social Network Platform Networking Google 259

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

It’s also the keystone to convincing investors that you have a “sustainable competitive advantage.” If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Letters of intent or endorsement.

Funding 112

Funding Entrepreneur Startup CTO Hire 112

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

It’s also the keystone to convincing investors that you have a “sustainable competitive advantage.” If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Letters of intent or endorsement.

Startup 104

Startup CTO Hire Press Customer 104

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 1, 2010

A startup is far more likely to respond to an inquiry, especially if they are in your industry yet are not competitive. Review the person’s publicly available information from social media sites. Press Releases – You can often find the names of BDC contacts from quotes in the company’s press releases.

Company 124

Company Companies Email Press 124

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. In the case of MakeSpace we had huge initial successes in New York City as Rahul led the scaling of our drivers, our trucks and our warehouses and we figured out the right price points to beat the local competition.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. million users making it considerably larger than some of its peers that have historically received more tech press inches. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell. I would also note that they claim 2.1

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

It’s also the keystone to convincing investors that you have a “sustainable competitive advantage.” If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Letters of intent or endorsement.

Startup 101

Startup CTO Hire Press Customer 101

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. What we are talking about is a spectrum of how you restrict early communications around your business: Who you will talk to including the public / press / etc. You’ll get suggestions for improvements. You’ll discover flaws and hopefully correct them.

Startup 211

Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. What we are talking about is a spectrum of how you restrict early communications around your business: Who you will talk to including the public / press / etc. You’ll get suggestions for improvements. You’ll discover flaws and hopefully correct them.

Startup 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

It’s also the keystone to convincing investors that you have a “sustainable competitive advantage.” If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Letters of intent or endorsement.

Tips 88

Tips Startup CTO Hire Press 88

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 13, 2013

The competition was fierce and the winner was…… Airping! Press this and the app will determine the next flight to your destination and will get you on it. printing press problems for the Washington Post or a water pump down for the Monterey Acquarium). Up for grabs for first place at this hack was $10k.

Java 94

Java Google Press PHP 94

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

I get to do a deep dive on their business model, product roadmap and competitive positioning. When your site crashes and you get slammed by customers and in the press – you’re all in the sh*tter together. For those companies that I don’t find that interesting I don’t have to spending any more time on.

Venture Capital 312

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur 312

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Zeroblock , the highly successful mobile and web app was recently acquired by the world’s most popular Bitcoin site and online wallet, Blockchain.info. She explains Freestyle VC’s specific “no competition” investment policy with active decisions to bypass investments that compete with companies in their portfolio.

Startup 104

Startup Venture Capital Draper Invest 104

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. Which button do you press? Competition is overrated - Chris Dixon , June 26, 2010 Your #1 competitor starting out will always be the BACK button, nothing else. didn’t think so.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro. Kibin is a peer review site for essays, resumes, cover letters, etc. We talk about all of this in the video. We then started talking about Dave McClure.

Startup 292

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Including everything from one-off development consulting projects, to building an auction site for Ticketmaster (called TicketExchange, recently launched), to developing a search engine, email hosting service and an online photo slideshow site. With enterprise software, your product sits at the customer’s site.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

DataSift = platform for companies to develop cost-effective applications using this Twitter data to gain advantage relative to their competition. Because we include links in our Tweets, Twitter has become one of the most powerful sources on the Internet for driving traffic to websites, blogs and news sites.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

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. Our test sites. I found a willing test site in the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts, whose management was thrilled to participate in an industry-changing experiment with new technology.

Artificial Inteligence 120

Artificial Inteligence Pricing Design Product 120

Berkonomics

AUGUST 18, 2011

After all that great press, I realized that the industry just was not ready for such a leap, giving up authority to a computer, even if at least one major airline had successfully done so. We could not argue with the money, even if we were right and all other managers desperately wanted to keep the wonder machine. So we removed the system.

Artificial Inteligence 214

Artificial Inteligence Pricing Design Product 214