Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

But perhaps to most insightful was their discussion about Machine Learning / AI. And he believes with less companies going public there is less competition. Or Oculus or twitch went public there would be more competition and he believes that as a country this isn’t good for us. Sports A final 5+ minutes talked about sports.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 24, 2016

These two developments represent the potential for major disruption in employer-sponsored medical benefit programs over the next decade or so, according to several studies. In fact, health care exchanges are expected to represent an increasingly competitive alternative to employer-sponsored health insurance plans in the future.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. We could talk with customers, meet the entire management team, review financial plans, review customer purchasing cohorts, evaluate the competition, etc. It’s just math.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2021

In that context, I came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine. As it turned out, 17 of the 27 companies were still in business seven years later, which is at least double that of other studies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2023

I found his observations, like the following, to be inspirational for those of us chasing an entrepreneurial dream: It’s all about the people. According to an MIT study a while back, only about 10% of patents granted in the United States have any meaningful commercial importance and less than one percent are of seminal importance.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Salaries or hourly wages must be within reasonable limits set by the industry and matched by the competition, both regionally and for the same job classification. There are many studies that tell us how various industries reward employees for achievement above a base pay, or beyond expectation. Some obvious qualifiers.

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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. Much has been written about the external influences of office environments, motivation, and personal health impacts, but I see evidence that there are personal productivity tactics that contribute just as much.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

As a business consultant with experience in large companies as well as startups, I often hear about dysfunctional management hierarchies, as well as the value provided by exceptional ones. We have all heard about the successes of flattened management organizations in the last decade at Facebook, Valve, Zappos, and others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Startups can use social responsibility as a competitive advantage. That’s a real competitive edge that you can use in your marketing and positioning. More and more customers choose a company based on their perceptions about the good that they do, as well as the price and service. Doing business is a human process.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 31, 2022

From a societal perspective, I’d be more concerned about e-scooters leaving Los Angeles than Paris,” David Zipper, a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government, told TechCrunch. Boohoo to your complaints about scooters on sidewalks! Frustrated. So what if there are accidents?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

I found his observations, like the following, to be inspirational for those of us chasing an entrepreneurial dream: It’s all about the people. According to an MIT study a while back, only about 10% of patents granted in the United States have any meaningful commercial importance and less than one percent are of seminal importance.

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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. Much has been written about the external influences of office environments, motivation, and personal health impacts, but I see evidence that there are personal productivity tactics that contribute just as much.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I’m not talking here about trying to be a stand-up comic, or weaving theatrical tales. Find a place in your message for a story about the positive emotions that your solutions can generate, or the negative ones it can eliminate. Thus it behooves you to highlight your message with a bit of storytelling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2023

We all face pressure in our lives, but there’s nothing like that of an entrepreneur facing customer crises and the competitive challenges of a new business. Thus, here is my own reframing of the authors generalized rules into some specifics for an entrepreneur or business leader: Reframe competitive threats to opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2023

If you sold your last startup for $800 million, you probably already know how to build a business, and even conservative investors won’t worry about the quality of your next business plan. Your idea may be technically right, but without a business plan, it could be dead right, which is not the result anyone is looking for.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

” Case studies get done with ebullient CEO’s espousing the benefits of said software even though their organization was barely using the product. ROI studies were published. I’m always paranoid about shelfware. I’m paranoid about the evaporation of revenue. Did they do a major training program?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2023

Every customer has a sense of what a solution should cost, based on competition, and the cost of doing nothing. A good tack is to sell exclusivity, or provide case studies to show return on investment and productivity. These fears need to be offset by good marketing, education on benefits, and successful case studies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Every customer has a sense of what a solution should cost, based on competition, and the cost of doing nothing. A good tack is to sell exclusivity, or provide case studies to show return on investment and productivity. These fears need to be offset by good marketing, education on benefits, and successful case studies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In fact, being connected on the Internet has taken on a whole new meaning to me, since I noticed a study commissioned a while back by PC Tools , which found that more than a quarter of people using the Internet have no problem with staying online during sex. Others admit to surfing the web even during religious services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Brown, who has been studying and writing about business leaders for many years for Forbes, BusinessWeek, and Inc. Find and sell your unique competitive advantages. If you don’t highlight your competitive advantages , no one else will. So how do good entrepreneurs do it, and what do they do that everyone can learn from?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Kaplan is a leading expert in building innovation cultures, and speaks from his real-world experience with many companies, as well as academic study. Frame the way you want to change the world, and make it about the customer. Design your invisible competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

We all face pressure in our lives, but there’s nothing like that of an entrepreneur facing customer crises and the competitive challenges of a new business. Thus, here is my own reframing of the authors generalized rules into some specifics for an entrepreneur or business leader: Reframe competitive threats to opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2023

Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness. They are always on the lookout for talent by peer networking, studying competitors, and working with top university contacts. Great leaders provide opportunities and personal growth assignments that go far beyond conventional training programs. Willing and able to hire on the spot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I’m often surprised when you as an aspiring entrepreneur, looking for investors, tell me your solution is so innovative that you don’t have to worry about differentiating it from competitors, and customers will flock to it without a real marketing campaign. Case studies, supporting videos, and giveaways still work well in this regard.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2022

They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on. They apparently ignored all conventional wisdom and advisors, and struck a deal which crashed both companies, now a case study in many business schools. Case and Gerald M.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

A number of teams have recently been looking to turn that vision into reality, as a result of the Qualcomm Tricorder Prize , a $10M competition being run by the X Prize Foundation to create a real life Tricorder. Talk about your team, how did you get interested in this project? Talk about your team, what''s your expertise in this area?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2020

According to many studies, entrepreneurs tend to be happier , and over 80 percent of self-made millionaires are entrepreneurs. Maintain a meaningful competitive advantage. Entrepreneurial thinking is focused on dominating a segment of a competitive market. For any company to be successful, it must dominate a market or niche.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2023

Either they are never really ready to commit, study an opportunity until it has passed, or fail with tools and techniques from a bygone business era. Technologies are not solutions, but understanding a technology, in the context of a customer need, will result in more competitive and long-lasting solutions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Change is about the only thing constant in the world of startups. The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. In summary, change will happen.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2016

These people are like the friend in college who always tempted you by telling you about the latest party when you were at the library studying. I try to steer entrepreneurs away from over-introducers and I often find myself wanting to be careful about them becoming an investor in companies I back.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2021

If you sold your last startup for $800 million, you probably already know how to build a business, and even conservative investors won’t worry about the quality of your next business plan. Your idea may be technically right, but without a business plan, it could be dead right, which is not the result anyone is looking for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2020

In fact, being connected on the Internet has taken on a whole new meaning to me, since I noticed a study commissioned a while back by PC Tools , which found that more than a quarter of people using the Internet have no problem with staying online during sex. Others admit to surfing the web even during religious services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Let me be clear – a product or consulting startup today without a blog, even with a static website, risks not being competitive in cost and time to reach and hold that critical mass of online customers. You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2023

This intent is often negated, according to new studies, by remote workers , especially parents and team members with long commutes, who are more satisfied and productive than onsite employees. Communicate both good and bad news to provide transparency to team members. Make sure they understand the changes coming ahead.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

I’ve spoken before about our desire at Upfront Ventures to fund really big ideas that solve hard problems, are science led and if successful will both have a positive effect on people’s lives as well as make great financial returns. We’re not Pollyannaish about this. They have raised $14 million to date.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2021

Studies show that peer recognition programs are often more effective than bonuses or cash rewards. Customers enjoy fresh perks to give them something to talk about, and make your business stand out. That customer experience is the best competitive advantage you can have, and the best predictor of long-term success.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The punchline is, I'm pretty excited about this story. Fair made its name early on subscriptions, can you talk a bit about the reason for the shift away from that? That really made us an extended rental car company, if you think about it. As we studied that Gen 1 and Gen 2 of the company, a few things popped out at us.

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