Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2011

Examine the marketplace and your competition. If you are a person who likes stability and control, or if you prefer when things go as planned, the roller-coaster ride of a new business may not be right for you. Every new business has highs and lows, and plenty of the unexpected.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Risks to the business drift off their radar screen, resulting in poor business decisions, as well as less job satisfaction and declining professional success. Change allows everyone to be push the limits in response, to improve their opportunity for personal growth, improve the company competitive position and odds for long-term success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Trying to save costs by seeking resumes on the Internet will result in poor quality candidates, more time required for screening and interviews, and high turnover. You need the very best to maintain a competitive edge, and get the satisfaction you want for you and your team members. Utilizing unprofessional sources for candidates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2023

Anything less makes you non-competitive. If you are committed to devices, work is always at the top of the screen. Yet peers and customers notice phone calls and e-mails not returned in twenty-four hours or less. They expect the same response you give to your best friends. Making a to-do list is not the same as getting things done.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Software products and apps can be quickly wire-framed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage. Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration.

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Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 110

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2020

Trying to save costs by seeking resumes on the Internet will result in poor quality candidates, more time required for screening and interviews, and high turnover. You need the very best to maintain a competitive edge, and get the satisfaction you want for you and your team members. Utilizing unprofessional sources for candidates.

Organization 135

Organization Entrepreneur Satisfaction Screening 135

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

and there was certainly less competition from everybody pitching local merchant solutions. If you want to get a quick sense of the app there’s a short screen cast here that make it obvious what it does. That is what we set out to solve at MyTime.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Anything less makes you non-competitive. If you are committed to devices, work is always at the top of the screen. Yet peers and customers notice phone calls and e-mails not returned in twenty-four hours or less. They expect the same response you give to your best friends. Making a to-do list is not the same as getting things done.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 27, 2015

With competition innovating fast, is Periscope the Meerkat killer at launch? Even though you can disable sounds the screen lights up every time any of your twitter friends go live. This makes Periscope a battery drainer whether you stream, watch or do nothing at all since it constantly lights up your screen with notifications.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

Keeping up with the competition: You’re a market leader in a fast-growing field. This might include business-side materials like your product roadmap, business plans, and competitor analysis, as well as technical materials like requirements documentation, screen comps, and project/process systems like Jira and Confluence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Software products and apps can be quickly wire-framed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage. Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration.

Outsource Development 124

Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 124

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Risks to the business drift off their radar screen, resulting in poor business decisions, as well as less job satisfaction and declining professional success. Change allows everyone to be push the limits in response, to improve their opportunity for personal growth, improve the company competitive position and odds for long-term success.

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Satisfaction Organization Custom Customer 124

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

There is a tangible understand that comes from engineers talking with real customers that simply can’t be gleaned from intuition or staring at computer screens. I personally recommend this to every team with whom I work. Feedback driven product development versus visionary (Steve Jobs) driven development.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2021

It pushed me harder, it became my own little competition with imaginary people I was riding against and with myself. I would take a screen grab of my daily goals in MyFitnessPal and send them to my brother. On May 31st the competition ended. I became happier every day. I had already lost 35+ pounds and it showed.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2016

As a starting point I have to believe the founder has the attributes of an entrepreneur that matter most to me : Tenacity, resiliency, inspiration, perspiration, attention-to-detail, competitiveness, decisiveness, risk tolerance and integrity. I know investors who are great at this (including several of my partners) — but that’s not me.

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Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The software can take several forms, including screen lockers, encryption ransomware, and doxware. . Tech startups looking to stay competitive should stay informed on the latest consumer experience and industry trends. Download the “Tech Startup Trends into 2022 and Beyond” Guide. Learn strategies to plan for long-term success.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2012

By the way, I should point out that the four top articles on the site when I took the screen shot were all great: The Long Grind Before You Become an Overnight Success - Vinicius Vacanti , September 12, 2011 Hacking Angel List | VentureArchetypes Blog: Seed Stage Capital - Seed Stage Capital , July 13, 2011 Hiring a CTO for Your Startup - SoCal CTO (..)

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Most of these investors are members of Angel groups that have a rigorous filtering and screening process, to select the top 3% and most fundable proposals. That’s why this item is so important, and is probably the biggest stumbling block I see in getting through the initial Angel screening. Get your Internet domain name and website.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2013

The screen size comes in at 4.5 A single piece of metal gives the Edge its sleek undertones and sapphire crystals cover the screen and considered one of the most durable materials. In desktop mode, a full version of Ubuntu’s desktop OS will be on display. Other hardware notes an internal storage of 128 GB and 4 GB of RAM.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Green screen keying, real time editable lower thirds, no-latency video switching, quicktime video playback and vector scopes come standard. NewTek also offers their free iVGA plugin so any Windows PC can screen-share with audio over the network, perfect for live casting Skype sessions and Hangouts.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2014

In an intensely competitive area, how do you differentiate yourself and grow a company? We''ve recently introduced several new offerings, including business collaboration, screen sharing, voice mail transcription, integration with Salesforce, integration with Box. What''s on your goal list now?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

The power of large screen real estate. Use that as a source of competition. So anybody building “second screen” TV apps or even “primary screen” TV apps needs to think seriously about their tablet strategy independent of their mobile strategy. The power of a keyboard. Fred’s post was right.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The Gust Deal Funnel from the last 12 months indicates is that 70% of the interested companies never make it past the initial screening process. That’s why this item is so important, and is probably the biggest stumbling block I see in getting through the initial angel screening. are eliminated during due diligence.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

The role of these investment staff varies firm-to-firm but they often entail: Sourcing deals for partners Helping with initial deal screening with a partner Helping with due diligence (competitive assessments, customer calls, reference checking, market sizing, technology reviews, etc.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2011

It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Or worse yet, the entrepreneur is so arrogant that he hasn’t even used Google to figure out he has competition just down the street. Gartner says our market will be $50 billion in 2015.”

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Entrepreneur Funding Innocal Competition 108

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

According to the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA), competitive markets and talent acquisition is driving big data analytics. These technology solutions allow large companies to utilize software products to source, screen and select hiring candidates. More Accurate Predictions.

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Software Review Statistics Technical Review Screening 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Deal screening. Ability to source information easily to help build a thesis around companies / industries / competition. Most firms have “associates” and “partners” and some have an additional role called a “principal.” ” Associates have different functions at different VCs. Industry reviews.

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Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

I’ve had many startup founders tell me that their startup literally has no competition,” said Frank Gruber, Cofounder of Tech.Co, Startup of the Year , and Established. “In What startup teams don’t realize is that having competition is good. Then apply for the Startup of the Year Competition today. Prepare for Q&A.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2012

Rapidly and repeatedly hiring star employees is a competitive advantage. Online recruiting tools, such as ZipRecruiter and The Resumator allow employers to screen applicants via qualification surveys and competency quizzes. One of the biggest challenges of the hiring process is sorting through unqualified applicants.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 14, 2014

We have a rigorous screening process, and we only fund the very best programs that are able to quantify their impact. It’s an open competition that awards $100,000 and a year of management support to the most promising early stage nonprofit that is helping low-income Chicagoans to rise out of poverty.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

Risks to the business drift off their radar screen, resulting in poor business decisions, as well as less job satisfaction and declining professional success. Change allows everyone to be push the limits in response, to improve their opportunity for personal growth, improve the company competitive position and odds for long-term success.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur Satisfaction Organization Custom 106

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2014

On the bottom right hand corner of the screen, an ominous button reads ADD MORE STRESS? . One would think the application, interview, and highly competitive acceptance are the most intense parts of building a startup in an accelerator. The clock boldly stated 46:23:50. 46 days, 23 hours, 50 minutes. “What does that do?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2015

Software products and apps can be quickly wireframed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage. For both software and hardware technology, multiple iterations are usually required to achieve production quality and performance.

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Ideas Outsource Development Startup Tool 107

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The AngelSoft Deal Funnel from the last 12 months indicates is that 70% of the interested companies never make it past the initial screening process. That’s why this item is so important, and is probably the biggest stumbling block I see in getting through the initial angel screening. are eliminated during due diligence.

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Angel Funding Technical Review Startup 89

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2010

At VT KnowledgeWorks we screen prospective clients for their Market opportunity, for the Magic that they offer to their prospective customers, and for the Moxie displayed by the start-up team. The entry screenings are tough. Relationships , I said back then. And I stand by that assertion.

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Incubator Mentor Capital Startup 80

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Anything less makes you non-competitive. If you are committed to devices, work is always at the top of the screen. Yet peers and customers notice phone calls and e-mails not returned in twenty-four hours or less. They expect the same response you give to your best friends. Making a to-do list is not the same as getting things done.

Startup 93

Startup Writing Entrepreneur Screening 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2010

It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Or worse yet, the entrepreneur is so arrogant that he hasn’t even used Google to figure out he has competition just down the street. Gartner says our market will be $50 billion in 2010.”

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Innocal Entrepreneur Competition IBM 96