Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. It’s a lot more fun to do it right the first time, making it easier for you, and tougher on your competition. Set milestones and manage to those targets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2021

Here are some tips from both his perspective and mine to stave off the coming summer “brain drain” and focus on the next step of employment, or starting a whole new career as an entrepreneur: Create and control your Internet image. Identify new goals based on your own definition of career success and then take action.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2021

So here are some tips I have learned over the years from strong leaders that can help you say no without damaging current business relationships or future opportunities: Establish boundaries and honor them for all to see. People making a request may not understand your budget limitations, current workload, or competitive pressures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

He succinctly outlines the key behaviors that I believe every business leader must focus on, to drive innovation without waiting for the next competitive crisis: Avoid the assumption that current gifts will keep on giving. A business that relies on static skill replacement is falling behind, and ripe for the next competitive crisis.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2017

When you’re in a competition and on the spot, answering questions to industry experts can be a nerve-wrecking process. This competition required the team to answer “…questions on a Food and Nutrition data set that contained 28 features and 30,000+ rows. This article is courtesy of the Galvanize blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

If I’m covering a company can I get evidence of what the competition is doing so the story is balanced? You can imagine the press release, “New innovative model allows us to do audits differently than the competition!” Do I have data or facts to present so the story has legs? Final example.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2020

You have to get past how great the product is to address clearly what your business rationale is, why it is different from the competition's, and why it will succeed. Provide a simple yet complete description of your product or service and its competitive marketplace. Be concise as well as complete. A winning product or service.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

I never saw it go out with a “tip @techmeme” on Twitter. I would delete my Tweet and then write something like, “ Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. 10 Tips from BuzzFeed on How to Make Content Go Viral ” See what I did there? His article is well worth reading anyways.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2013

The reason for this is that the executives who founded the company have so much tacit knowledge of how to position their product relative to the competition that they can easily win campaigns when they’re involved. So I often work with teams to get them to codify the key things they do well that the competition does not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2022

A related “red flag” in a business plan is a missing competitive analysis section, or a short paragraph that essentially says, “this product has no competition.” My reaction is, if there is no competition, then there is no market demand for your product, so why are you building it?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

The venture is also one of the few e-motorcycle companies drawing engineering tips from competition. Track competition is a secondary arena for Energica. But the competition is closing in on some of the Italian EV maker’s numbers. MotoE Worldcup racing, Image Credits: Energica.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

My most read post on marketing tips highlights this – please pay attention to tip #4 – you can’t have great marketing for bad or mediocre products. In my opinion no amount of clever marketing or chest beating at conferences can create a market if you don’t have an amazing product to begin with. why did they buy?

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Linktree leads the space, securing a recent $45 million Series B raise to build out e-commerce features, but Beacons boasts competitive creator monetization tools with just a $6 million seed round in May. Now, Snipfeed enters the ring with its own $5.5 ’ ” Image Credits: Snipfeed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2023

In the competitive realm of business, you only get one chance to make a great first impression. You can’t afford that competitive disadvantage. Being very visible in the startup community, I still get an amazing number of badly written emails, rambling executive summaries, and business plans with one paragraph per chapter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Marketing ,” which provides some pragmatic marketing tips for small businesses as follows: Don’t tell customers how great you are. The only actions that create results are those that make you stand out above the crowd, attract, engage, and win more customers than your competition. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2011

I recommend her six tried-and-true tips to deal with the challenges that may be holding back your profits: Stay visible and connected. It’s important to stand up to competition and wear your reputation on your sleeve.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2010

Here are some tips from his perspective and mine to stave off the summer “brain drain” and focus on the next step or starting a whole new career as an entrepreneur: Create and control your Internet image. He and I believe that summer is the perfect time for starting a new career. Invest in career coaching. Actively work the network.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Dave asks for a tip every time a customer uses that cushion to cover expenses — something that Wilk says is still cheaper than having to worry about overdraft fees. And, to add a bit of environmental spin, for every tip that Dave receives, the company plants a tree. And they’re facing global competition as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Image via Wikipedia The challenge for all of us in business is to improve competitiveness by improving employee productivity and reducing costs. According to Gartner , one of the biggest drags on productivity is employee engagement, still hovering around 30 percent, and costing our businesses over $450 billion per year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2010

One of the toughest and yet most important questions you will be asked by savvy potential investors is “What is your sustainable competitive advantage?” Yet many entrepreneurs, maybe in their passion for their new product, gloss over this one, or even announce that they have no competition. Proven team with inside relationships.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 15, 2010

If you want some tips on getting access I wrote a post on how to access VCs but the same logic applies to angels. We don’t need competition – we need more overall organizations like Jason’s to helping young entrepreneurs more easily reach angel investors with no payola. The event last night in Los Angeles was great.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

The pedigreed studio has in recent times faced more internal competition from its siblings inside Tencent, particularly the Lightspeed Quantum studio, which is behind the successful mobile version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). It also appears that only users with a Chinese Apple account are able to pay for WeChat articles.

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socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2017

According to the company, it is looking to avoid being direct competition with Periscope and Facebook live by including "locaiton-based social functions". The company apparently has been attempting to cast celebrities and actors to fill out its live streaming content, saying it offers a "tipping" system for viewers who like the content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2020

If you want to grow your startup, and you are only reaching one customer at a time, one market or one partnership at a time, you’re not going to grow fast enough to be competitive, especially against the larger players that have a full infrastructure in the marketplace. It’s time to exploit your network for trends and direction.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. An example of that is we have built in daily tips, which we have put together after going through 17,000 medical studies on what to do to reduce early memory loss. Luckily, when the crash happened, we didn't have that kind of pressure.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

If you don’t live in a major VC zone, I have some tips for how to make it easier to raise Venture Capital. Thus, a desire to invest more locally where I think I have a competitive advantage. Ask SuperCell. Or UrbanAirship. NewToy, Dwolla, Pollenware or Wonga. ” Let’s start with “oversight.”

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

He offers a number of worthwhile tips and tricks that I was not able to capture in the textual summary, so the 14-minute audio file is well worth your time. And we hired folks who had previous leadership positions and proof points of being competitive. Do you have any PR tips and tricks you can share with emerging entrepreneurs? “In

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InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2012

Tip: Pay attention to folks who are used to working as a part of high-performance teams. You simply cannot teach competitiveness; people either have it or they don’t. Hire people that refuse to lose and have the competitive drive that is essential in achieving greatness. Guide your team to greatness, don’t shove them there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Let your continuous innovation become your sustainable competitive advantage. Innovation doesn’t happen without active leadership, a mindset of commitment from the team, and a defined process. Discipline is required to continually track results, return on investment, and customer satisfaction. A strategy of speedy execution is required.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 4, 2010

- Both Sides of the Table , April 20, 2010 Turning on your Reality Distortion Field - Steve Blank , April 22, 2010 Social Networking vs Email - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , April 13, 2010 Twitter and third-party Twitter developers - Chris Dixon , April 10, 2010 Interview: How to close an angel round - Venture Hacks , April 6, 2010 Accounting (..)

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2019

Employers are increasingly offering remote work options as a differentiator to attract top talent in today’s competitive hiring market. And, with modern technology at their fingertips, employees have come to expect a seamless working experience whether they’re home, in the office, or on the road.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2012

Startup executives need to first build a culture and processes with communication and shared goals, rather than internal competition and bureaucracy. In today’s highly competitive and unpredictable environment, it’s not enough to do one thing better than your competitors. The biggest barriers to collaboration are not technical.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Discussion will explore the particular opportunities and challenges companies face when expanding into this complex and competitive market. Our discussion will also feature practical tips for managing existing operations. Tuesday, November 17, 2009 -- How To Do Business in Japan. Hosted by High Street Partners and Silicon Valley Bank.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

This same j2 Global Survey also offers the following tips how to improve your chances of success as an Gen-Y entrepreneur, or even as a young professional working for a larger organization: Don’t let student loans rain on your parade. Explore ways to remain calm and prepare for problems that may come up. I’m accepting the challenge.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. Here are some tips to keep in mind for the big day. tip: write it down when asked / parked). Congratulations. What could go wrong? A lot, actually.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Turning the Urgency Addiction into a Competitive Asset. When I work on tasks or presentations or analyses I often get into the weeds but I often rely on a partner to make sure we cross every T and dot every I. I choose lawyers who are great completer finishers (believe it or not, not all are) and so forth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Above all, don’t forget to observe your competition and their social media activity. Customers see what their peers are saying in blogs and product reviews, and how you respond to these, and this impacts their buy decision more than any advertisement.

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