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Competitive Intelligence

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 -- Competitive Intelligence: 007 Market Intel. PDMA SoCal. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to estimate market size, competitive market share, how many potential customers are there, and price points. It's Monday morning. He announces, "Let's build a gold-plated widget!"

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16 Great Startup Posts from March

SoCal CTO

Death By Competitive Analysis - Steve Blank , March 1, 2010 Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product. In response he sent me a competitive analysis. It looked like every competitive analysis I had done for 20 years, (ok maybe better.)

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Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

Both Sides of the Table

” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth.

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Start your own company? Crazy? Like a Fox!

SoCal Tech Calendar

Dr. Kathleen Allen of the USC Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies will discuss entrepreneurial leadership. Wednesday, February 24, 2010 -- Start your own company? Like a Fox! Buenaventura IEEE-EMBS. Dr. Allen will give details on how entrepreneurship is much more than merely starting a new business.

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Moving Analytics | Sitting Kills, Moving Heals

Tech Zulu Event

SoCal startup Moving Analytics is tackling this global problem. Through simple design, extensive sensing mechanism research, and behavioral science principles, Moving Analytics is carving out its own innovative niche in a heavily competitive space by providing a simple solution for highly sedentary people. This was run out of USC?

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

Also, you mentioned an interesting rails session that you attended last month about security, and we've been studying Google's web app security guidelines. Most importantly, it just doesn't feel right to us to hold positions in competitive companies. To: < *@gmail.com > Hi , Greetings from Twilio!

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

Both Sides of the Table

Every time I approached Network Solutions (or any technical group in Accenture) they wrote me off as “a business guy” since I studied economics and was on the Accenture “business track.” I was based in LA and thought there was an interesting angle there – I could be SoCal guy. I could be International guy.