Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Investors will want to know what advantages you have over the competition and how you plan on differentiating yourself. How do you plan on differentiating from the competition? Distribution. For product companies, a distribution plan is an important part of the complete business plan. Retail Distribution.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The Canadian government matched the investment, and the 15-year plan kicked off. The problem that we tried to solve, is how do we differentiate our product when anything we can do our competitors can just copy, and put on BlackBerry, while users fundamentally want a very simple product.”. “We

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

You need a big differentiator in these arenas. Products requiring changes to government regulations. Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure. Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

The Energy Internet Emerges: We will be trading energy with each other through a new type of distributed energy grid. Public and Private Transport Morph: The two forms of transport will continue its trajectory to differentiate from each other. Autonomous vehicles will be owned by private people who rent them to public systems.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

And, depending on the business you start, there may also be various government incentives. Gather information from government sites like the U.S. You don’t have to rely on banks and government organizations to fund your business. Order and distribute leaflets. Talk to people, including customers.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 12, 2010

Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: Please differentiate between the governance of a VC fund versus the governance of companies in a VC fund’s portfolio? Is one more important than the other? Share and Enjoy:

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Entrepreneurs versus Saboteurs Startups and scaleups outside of companies or government agencies want to take share of an existing market, or displace existing vendors. Inside these commercial or government organizations there are people who want to kill innovation (as my friend Jared just discovered). Poison startup financing sources.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Or are you happy to run just the local restaurant that is differentiator. How do you differentiate yourself? John Jantsch (14:54): So, so you probably occasionally drive by some very large buildings that are at about 10% capacity, you know, because employees are distributed now or not coming back to the office ever again.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Specific benefits of global internet marketplaces: Increase wealth distribution (all examples). As a result, productivity naturally improves.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

This principle is foundational in differentiating RIAs from other financial advisors who may not adhere to strict ethical guidelines. The Fiduciary Standard: Why It Matters for Your Investments The fiduciary standard is at the core of the RIAs responsibilities, a legal obligation to put clients interests above their own.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

We had to estimate hardware costs at various volume levels, distribution channel discounts, competitive pressures from Imsai and a few others, and then decide to go to market with a strong conviction in our pricing strategy. Now it’s cost + markup + 14 layers of intermediaries who all get a cut = price paid by insurance or the government.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

To differentiate it from typical “Series A&# preferred stock, which comes with certain expectations with regard to rights. The only practical situation that I can think of where a dividend preference is beneficial to a stockholder is where a company does a partial sale of assets and wishes to distribute the proceeds to stockholders.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

David Goldhill, in his enlightening book Catastrophic Care , declared: “…a guiding principle of any reform should be to put the consumer, not the insurer or the government, at the center of the system. Brighter has rapidly achieved national scale with distribution to tens of millions of insured patients and over 100,000 providers.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2024

In a progressively saturated market, these startups need to reevaluate their strategies and wisely distribute resources to remain competitive and sustainable amidst the demands of investors and well-established competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

It’s amazing how many proposals I see that are “me too” with only slight or abstract differentiation from other social media sites, ride sharing, or collaboration tools. Prove exclusivity with whatever methods and relationships you can use, including patents, distribution channels, government support, or name-brand customer contracts.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Having a monopoly is one thing—you can set the price the way you want (of course there are few government norms) but setting pricing strategies based on competitors’ behaviour isn’t an easy task. When you set a price equivalent to your competitor, then the differentiating factors cease to exist.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 6, 2022

Advocacy is essential for your nonprofit to advance its mission, but how do you differentiate between advocacy and lobbying? The federal government recognizes the good work nonprofits do to support their communities. Communicating with government agencies or members of judicial or executive branches.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

Hannu has called for mass coordination between the government and the private sector to get to a vaccine faster, not a few months faster but dramatically faster. How do we differentiate self from non-self? It could be the federal government. I know for a lot of you, that will sound familiar. Hannu Rajaniemi : Thank you, Eric.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2017

It applies to the production, distribution, marketing, sale and consumption of goods and services. Forbes notes some of the reasons why Seventh Generation, a Burlington, Vermont-based company that produces and distributes green products, was recognized as the best company for the environment.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2022

Other aspects of organizational governance. To make preferred shares more marketable, different companies issuing the shares include several characteristics that differentiate them from common stock. They need to ensure that the shares are distributed productively. Distribution Channel. The selection of Senior Officers.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

They focus on helping content creators and app developers create, identify, package and distribute those meaningful video highlights in ways that help them reach more customers and generate more revenue. The industry and governments will need to work through fair play rules for dealing with all this private information of individuals.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

When anyone can work from anywhere, they don’t evenly distribute across the country. Some are running away from skyrocketing tax rates, dysfunctional government, and devastating wildfires. Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy told me that was the people of Austin that differentiated us from the other cities.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

After managing a distribution center where I sold vinyl to record stores (my first client was Asheville’s own Harvest Records), renting the farmhouse was about becoming self-sufficient. I had previously worked at an executive level in the government, specialising in international relations. 29) Stay at Home.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 7, 2019

To build an app, you can purchase a cheap Chromebook, connect to an incredibly powerful array of supercomputers for next to no cost on AWS, and you can distribute your minimally viable product across large social networks like Linkedin and Facebook with just a key stroke. The future of entrepreneurship is global, distributed, and remote.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2014

That’s because the service does not comply with HIPAA or FERPA regulations that govern health and student records respectively. But Huddle hasn’t won customers like Procter & Gamble and the British and American governments through Google-bashing. Box falls somewhere between Dropbox and Huddle.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 31, 2017

As a user interacting with distributed applications (Dapps), you will never “see” a blockchain. Basically, dev tools and governance mechanisms. Now let’s turn to governance. Dash has had on-chain governance for a few years. Tezos has presented a variation of Dash’s on-chain governance.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 11, 2019

Following the GFC, worldwide protests brought the world’s increasingly skewed distribution of wealth into focus for a new generation and the disparity is only speeding up. You must find a way to differentiate yourself and give people a reason to spend with you. Or experience. Go niche and go “deep”. Use only local produce.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. creator of WipAir 8000 – The Best in Class Backhaul Solution.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Often major customers defect en masse to the new entrant as they realize that the huge price premium is not justified by the product differentials. had a government break because they didn’t need to charge taxes and thus consumers got an even better price. But Amazon didn’t try to build a hugely profitable business.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

What if you’re a government or a military organization or part of the intelligence community? So to differentiate “customers” from the standard business model canvas we’ll call all the different customer segments and the layers in the defense and intelligence value chain beneficiaries. Distribution Channel changes to Deployment.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football. The government is using the shift to technology economies as their chance to reinvent.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Our conventional mapping of “who we are” relies on a family name and government ID, but these are quite arbitrary identifiers that pre-date the Internet. Their biggest differentiators are 1) censorship resistance and 2) (theoretically) lower costs. Just as we as beings are in constant flux, now our selective identities can be as well.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Instead, let’s separate the upside and downside of “building feature X,” and clarify the outcome of those two aspects: UPSIDE: Unique position in the market, leading to new deals won through differentiation. If we do feature X, we earn more deals (through differentiation).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Jonah pointed out that originally content companies had to pay cable companies to carry their content and then it became neutral and over time the cable companies actually paid large fees to content creators in order to get access to the highest quality content and differentiate their offering and avoid being commoditized.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

What happens when you’ve done the 10 years, and you need to distribute to your LPs and you need to go back to doing more series A’s, you have to ask, “What does the next 10 years of these companies look like?” And I was like, “Well, okay, you’re super smart. Why do you think it’s going to fail?” But, in fact, you know we’re social animals.

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