Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

In his book, “ Out-Executing the Competition ,” seasoned executive Irv Rothman provides tips to corporate executives on how to dig in and “get their fingernails dirty.” Clean hands won’t out-execute the competition for long in any business. Practice regular and consistent reviews. Accountability is crucial. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Entrepreneur Template Outsource Development 103

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Dozens of design templates that can be printed on various high-end papers. Competition: Pingg, MyPunchbowl, TinyPrints , PaperlessPost. Competition: Apple iPhone App Store Genius. Premium invitation cards and event stationary that is designed online for online distribution or paper print. Founded by Shawn Gold (ex-MySpace CMO).

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Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2012

In his new book, “ Out-Executing the Competition ,” seasoned executive Irv Rothman provides tips to corporate executives on how to dig in and “get their fingernails dirty.” Clean hands won’t out-execute the competition for long in any business. Practice regular and consistent reviews. Accountability is crucial. Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneur Startup Template Outsource Development 94

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

There's real competition in this area. My dream with this pilot with Honda is that it becomes a similar template for other OEMs. As we studied that Gen 1 and Gen 2 of the company, a few things popped out at us. One, we were entering a world where digital and omni-channel transactions are just table stakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth.

.Net 89

.Net Metrics Competition Template 89

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Packaging, pricing & discounts – In the early days of my first company we always had “list prices&# we quoted to customers and of course we were always willing to negotiate based on who the client was, how important the business was to us, who the competition was and how well the deal was negotiated. We called it PUCCKA.

Pricing 296

Pricing Sales Startup Customer 296

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

The initial Apple/AT&T deal was of course limited to the geography in which AT&T operated and thus after its initial success Apple had a template for exclusivity agreements in other countries. Why Exclusivity Matters to Your Customers or Business Development Partners.

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Outsource Development Startup Custom Customer 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like. And there is often competition over marketing activities, fund raising ownership and the like.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Amazon has shown an interesting blueprint of how someone else can get another app store to be competitive in the market. They've show this template, but no one is following it except them. Josh Hartwell: In the near term, it's iOS, Android, and Amazon. Theirs is great, and their revenue per day per active user is really tremendous.

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Mobile Java Google Startup 168

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 3, 2015

Whether it’s something as extensive as filing patents, more simple trademark registrations, and or putting appropriate documentation in place, don’t ignore this and don’t rely on boilerplate online templates. Make sure you have a lawyer to help draft your contracts and guide you’re communicating policies and procedures.

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Startup Outsource Development IP Outsource 40

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2021

Of course, you can find these elements embodied in many of the business plan templates and tools out there, such as the Business Model Canvas. Investors know that operational and employee expenses are always higher than anticipated, not to mention customer acquisition costs, capital expenses, and ongoing competitive initiatives.

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Frank Addante

DECEMBER 22, 2006

Just Say What it Is By Frank Addante In todays high-tech, highly competitive world, more and more companies are describing their products or services using too many fancy, jargon words. This is particularly a problem in crowded markets where they are trying hard to differentiate themselves from their competition.

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Startup Competition Venture Capital Advertising 40

Frank Addante

MARCH 12, 2007

In todays highly competitive job marketplace, it is becoming increasingly more difficult. Silicon Valley has a lot of engineers with a lot of experience, but also lot of competition, which makes it the most expensive place to hire engineers and loyalty can be a challenge. My solution: cast a wider net.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup .Net Venture Capital 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

A business plan is the outward facing definition of the business you hope to drive with your hardware solution, with a hardware overview in the intro to highlight customer value and competitiveness. Call out your top competitors, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantage, including patents, trade secrets. and trademarks.

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Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

Outwit the competition. Customer, not Competition Be a leader, not a follower. Companies often focus too much on their competition. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Think Differently Constantly challenge conventional wisdom. Take the contrarian route. Create novel solutions.

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Company Companies Startup Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

They are afraid of their competition finding out about the idea, a bigger company trying to steal it or some other entrepreneur doing it first. Well, my philosophy is that if you keep it from your competition, youre also keeping it from potential users or customers. Yes, I did say competition.

Startup 40

Startup Ideas Venture Capital Competition 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

because they are so focused on being better than their competition. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit > On average, 25% of legitimate business email goes undelivered and every day that I don’t fix it, I’m likely losing money or revenue potential.

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Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 Outsource Development 40

Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

What if there was another competitive cash register on the market? Sure, theres a wave of new technology solutions that have come into the market that are competitive with DoubleClick, but, they are unproven. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Whats the cost of not having it?

Google 40

Google Advertising Startup Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

AUGUST 27, 2007

Our competition was well funded with many millions of dollars, well armed with hundreds of employees and far down the path. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit We had this same culture at L90/adMonitor. There, we took on the impossible. It’s worth it, I promise.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Web 2.0 40

Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

Since India still seems to be the most popular place to outsource, I will give my ratings based only on my experiences (directly and indirectly) on outsourcing to India: Cost (Today = 2; 5 Years Ago = 4): Costs in India have been rising as competition for resources grows. While still considerably less then the U.S.,

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Outsource Software Review Startup 40

Frank Addante

JULY 30, 2007

We didn’t wait for planning meetings, we didn’t discuss strategy, didn’t discuss architecture, didn’t talk to customers, didn’t look at similar or competitive products , didn’t write specs or requirements. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Advertising 40

Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

Bringing in Steady engineers too early could result in a less competitive product, bringing them in too late could result in instability. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Steady engineers are likely to sacrifice innovation for quality.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Develop Development Product 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

Our “keep it simple&# strategy enabled us to move faster than our competition, and more importantly, enabled our customers to move faster than their competition. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

Startup 40

Startup Outsource Development Product Advertising 40

Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

In todays highly competitive and busy world, we are spending less time taking care of bodies and spending more time taking care of our careers, our houses and other material belongings. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

Startup 40

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

The interesting thing is that we never looked at our competition, we never did any kind of competitive analysis on the products we wanted to be leaders, so we acted like leaders – we focused on our customers, not our competition. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Technical Review Chief Technology Officer 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

In Silicon Valley, people are much more competitive, have more focus/experience in software backgrounds and often focus more attention on the methods first, then the results. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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