Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2021

While you all recognize that reacting to weak market signals is critical to staying in business and staying competitive, I find that many don’t have the skills and focus to trigger change decisions on a timely basis. When sales fall off, you need to dig deep for the “why,” rather than just assuming the price needs to go down.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. If you want to drive up the demand for your core product, one smart tactic is to drive down the price of all complementary products. Build your own marketplace platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit. Understanding competitive early mover requirements. Unfortunately, the Internet and heavily funded startups have nurtured a customer expectation of free web services and free smartphone apps.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit. Understanding competitive early mover requirements. Unfortunately, the Internet and heavily funded startups have nurtured a customer expectation of free web services and free smartphone apps.

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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. million site visits in October alone. Gumroad homepage.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

The Vice President of Business Development reports to the CEO and is responsible for the direction and management of all worldwide sales operations direct and indirect, including market competitiveness, pricing, compensation, and distribution. Business Development Director, Colony Logic - Los Angeles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. So let’s take a look.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites. Noah, thanks for the interview. How did the company start?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 Cisco and others went out to fill out their Web 2.0 portfolios.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Provider of real-time data and predictive analytics for web site publishers. Pricing engine helps publishers ascertain ad inventory pricing by analyzing ad transaction data from the market/exchanges.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Brilliant web and iPhone app design. www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Fast Pitch Competition. Contact Scott Herson for an overview, pricing and information at herson@joyent.com or 949-861-1069. Yarnell Design (www.masonyarnell.com/tech).

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Every price comparison out there, whether that's Google Products, Bizrate, or other sites, can find books, but you can only do it one at a time. How did you come up with the web site? Back to the service itself-- you've got lots of competition in the space, how are you going to get above that noise? What's SwoopThat?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. But it’s a real phenomenon.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 18, 2011

Both companies (were) high-volume, scalable web infrastructures…that (has been) applied to the technology we are building.”. Our Behavioral Commerce Platform anonymously allows that web retailer, really for the first time, to have true insight into what that shopper’s behavior is on their site, across one visit or multiple visits. “Our

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. If you want to drive up the demand for your core product, one smart tactic is to drive down the price of all complementary products. Build your own marketplace platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. But that doesn’t mean that people are paying rational prices as investors based on intrinsic value. That’s fine. And so on down then line.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

To understand that assertion, let’s observe how and when Google encroached on each layer of the technology value chain required to access any web service. Web browser – even a functional computer with an OS isn’t enough to access most Google services. Search is just another web application.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award. Nice sweep! But Ethan had left by the time of the acquisition.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

In that network, we bring in content from all over the web. Unlike anywhere else on the web, you can then respond directly when you see that comment. Vinny Jindal: There are lots of examples of where someone says  I'm going to buy this stock here, and sell at this price. I thought you said you were going to sell?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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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. And maddening.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage.

Services 105

Services Startup Training Writing 105

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

Stephen Sesar: It's no major secret that telcos have been increasing their prices, and basically selling high volume wireless Internet packages to users, with 5GB or 10GB of data, when in reality, users are only using roughly 1.5 That peak of 10-12 down is faster than normal DSL, and will be at a fraction of the price.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2012

You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary. Your competitive advantage. Identify your sustainable competitive advantage, like unique benefits, cost savings, or industry ties. Don’t kill your credibility by saying you have no competition. Business model.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2014

For example, you can go to the store now and buy a moderately priced slow cooker that’s run with an app on your iPad. It’s only a matter of time before competition dictates that every crockpot come infused with a microprocessor. The question is, will we be the ones in control, or will the criminals?

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The city is viewed so favourably as a hotpot of tech talent that it was chosen to host this year’s Web Summit for the second year in a row. But Lisbon has since been working hard to recover, and the city is now making waves as a startup capital. Read more about international ecosystems on TechCo.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage.

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. So let’s take a look.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 74

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Hautelook disintermediated the off-price part of the segment. It's the relationship between price and quality. Value is becoming the new thing, and the web gives the ability for people to share value and other sides to discovery value. We were in the right place, at the right time, and had a great tail wind. What is value?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary. Your competitive advantage. Identify your sustainable competitive advantage, like unique benefits, cost savings, or industry ties. Don’t kill your credibility by saying you have no competition. Business model.

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Summary Writing Competition Sample 90

Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

And even better still, it offers a great deal for the publications who participate in the program, offering a competitive 8% conversion rate and an impressive 10% commission on each sale (more than double Amazon’s 4.5% Better still, it partners with indie bookstores to do so, taking those who click to a digital storefront of a local bookshop.

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Technical Review Buzzfeed News Networking 129

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The earliest mega-scale web services (e.g., Pricing – Amazon’s pricing of the infrastructure that allows third parties to build their own private clouds and the old VMware/EMC/Cisco stack is cost prohibitive. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles!

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IBM IBM Networking Software 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit. Understanding competitive early-mover requirements. Unfortunately, the Internet and heavily-funded startups have nurtured a customer expectation of free web services and smartphone apps.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit. Understanding competitive early mover requirements. Unfortunately, the Internet and heavily funded startups have nurtured a customer expectation of free web services and free smartphone apps.

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