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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Operating Costs. It could be an eCommerce website or “flash sale” where they are booking revenue from customers but then having to pay out a high percentage of the sale to the clothing manufacturer.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

How will you differentiate from these? Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Dismissable?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

How will you differentiate from these? Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Dismissable?

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Leading Edge or Bleeding Edge: The Make or Break Difference

Up and Running

Meanwhile, Wendy’s poured marketing and operational resources to deliver on their “Hot and Juicy” promise and carved out a niche for customers who wanted fresh, larger burgers with customized condiments. Look closely for other highly differentiated technology that may be hidden in the work you or your team have already completed.

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Game On: Will gamers embrace the blockchain boom?

View from Seed

In late 2020, Facebook announced that it would cease to support Flash-based games. Key areas of differentiation are: Ownership of in-game assets. Traditional games operate as walled gardens. Consider FarmVille. With blockchain technology, that dynamic has shifted. Open source, permissionless code.

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year. If they are taking on problems that the other company is really, really, really good at, then they better have a strong differentiating thing.

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year. If they are taking on problems that the other company is really, really, really good at, then they better have a strong differentiating thing.