ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

He is heading straight into an intensely competitive market without adequate differentiation or competitive positioning. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. Anupam has serious segmentation issues.

Spain 115

Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

The partners that ACE is working with have a proven track record and the capabilities to identify, seed, and nurture differentiated start-ups. The 12 partners, who mainly come from the educational sector, looks to provide funding and mentorship support and help these first time entrepreneurs grow their ideas into sustainable businesses.

Singapore 207

Singapore Incubator Partner Differentiation 207

Austin Startup

APRIL 8, 2010

But Microventures differentiates in several meaningful ways. We should also point out that the platform, at least initially, is not an incubator or accelerator program like Y Combinator or Austin’s own Capital Factory. Aside from the traditional VC firms, Capital Factory is now embarking on its second year.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Due Diligence Incubator Texas 75

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

User experience is really at the heart of digital transformation, Bo believes, and it’s a critical aspect of building and differentiating a strong brand that engages customers. The explosion in data in today’s digital era leads to deeper and more expansive insights into customers and stronger, more personal connections, as well.

United Kingdom 113

United Kingdom Technical Review Design Operations 113

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. Ecosystm + Incubator = Ecobator. That really differentiates us from any other accelerator or incubator out there.”.

Incubator 116

Incubator North Carolina Los Angeles Startup 116

www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

I know this will fall like a lead balloon to the many people who believe it is possible to have a [insert: startup incubator or technology accelerator or technology consultant or outsource firm] build your technology. I don’t believe it. Either your core is innately technical or it’s not. . -

Fractional VPE 89

Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Fractional CTO CTO Hire 89

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Again, our value can really be differentiated in its scale and depth. I’ve also presented at a range of industry conferences on how institutional investors can use professional networks for research , origination , market research , and value creation.

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. Ecosystm + Incubator = Ecobator. That really differentiates us from any other accelerator or incubator out there.”.

Incubator 101

Incubator North Carolina Los Angeles Startup 101

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

He looked at his resume, and asked just one question: “ What’s your edge? ” My friend got the job because his answer was differentiated, credible, and backed up by a history of investing success. It is unexciting and hard to prove, but in fact “We execute better” is a critical differentiator. – Incubating companies.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

He looked at his resume, and asked just one question: “ What’s your edge? ” My friend got the job because his answer was differentiated, credible, and backed up by a history of investing success. It is unexciting and hard to prove, but in fact “We execute better” is a critical differentiator. – Incubating companies.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

645 Ventures 645 Ventures makes deeply-researched investments in institutional Seed to Series A rounds for exceptional companies who demonstrate stellar early results in the areas of market validation, product differentiation, team strength, and brand narrative. These sectors generally leverage the Internet or software in a fundamental way.

Private Equity 48

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Seed Stage 48

Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

It’s important to differentiate between ideas that have been or can be patented and ideas thought up late night in a dorm-room. Most startups that fail over team issues fail because co-founders hadn’t dated first, (spent time together in a Startup Weekend , worked together in an incubator , etc.) Everyone has ideas.

Cofounder 335

Cofounder Advisory Board Customer Development Leadership 335

VC Cafe

APRIL 27, 2011

10 things VCs can do to differentiate themselves and provide more value to potential investments – based on feedback from dozens of entrepreneurs. Despite the VC’s obvious disadvantage in the early stages, marketing and differentiation of venture capital funds is limited today.

Venture Capital 90

Venture Capital Differentiation Incubator Angel Investor 90

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Participating in office hours at an incubator is an efficient way to to do that short-burst work and fish for founders where there seems to be mutual attraction and the potential for much more than just a hello. Many accelerators and incubators have institutionalized mentoring in the form of EIR’s or similar titles.

Incubator 48

Incubator Vertical Deal Flow Technical Review 48

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. The project was a little unexpected – creating customer cereal boxes called Obama-Os and Cap’n McCains, timely for the 2008 elections.

Entrepreneur 127

Entrepreneur Bankruptcy Southern California South Africa 127

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs. The process does not differentiate between programs that are incremental improvements, versus those that are disruptive. And they’re even making an end-around to a broken acquisition system.

Technology 436

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 436

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

The term “early-stage” covers a lot of territory in venture investing, from incubating a brand-new idea, to investing in a Series A. The shift to video webinars, online social events, and online community for differentiated go-to-market is pretty transformational. You had different ways to reach customers.

Technical Review 69

Technical Review Seed Stage Software Review Early Stage 69

YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

Does the solution DIFFERENTIATE from current competitors through a UVP? Meng Weng Wong is co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia , which he helped started in 2010 to bring the TechStars model of startup incubation to Southeast Asia. Advice For The Young At Heart accelerator incubator JFDI Asia Singapore startup'

Asia 207

Asia Singapore Cofounder Incubator 207

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. Ecosystm + Incubator = Ecobator. That really differentiates us from any other accelerator or incubator out there.”.

Incubator 60

Incubator North Carolina Los Angeles Startup 60

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

What differentiates FounderDating is the quality of our members: they excel at what they do, are passionate about innovation, and are committed to starting a new company in the very short-term. FounderDating brings together super talented, handpicked entrepreneurs with different. backgrounds and skill sets who want to start companies.

Cofounder 47

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Hoffman should know, as an icon in the Silicon Valley, having educated and trained hundreds of startup founders as the CEO of “ Founders Space ,” designated by Inc.com as one of the top ten incubators and accelerators in the world. Be the first to disrupt an existing market space. Being first is always important.

Silicon Valley 136

Silicon Valley Differentiation Angel Investor Incubator 136

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Or Yale could develop a legaltech incubation program and to help improve lawyers’ productivity, a profession whose primary tech tool is Microsoft Word. Incubate non-Yalies. For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g.,

Affiliate 60

Affiliate Connecticut Programming Community 60

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs. The process does not differentiate between programs that are incremental improvements, versus those that are disruptive. And they’re even making an end-around to a broken acquisition system.

Technology 256

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 256

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The round was led by Lool Ventures , an incubator/micro fund started by ex AOL/Yedda execs Yaniv Golan and Avichay Nissenbaum and joined by Israeli angel Yuval Tal (founder of several payment startups including Payoneer ) and additional private investors who led the company’s seed round. Globes reported a rumored $1.5

Mobile 92

Mobile Caching Incubator Differentiation 92

ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

I suggested LinkedIn, oDesk, and eLance with the caveat that the field is extremely competitive and crowded and differentiation would be tough to achieve. She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. Happy Grasshopper. And you can sign up for the 1M/1M premium program here.

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Entrepreneur Silicon Valley India 125

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. His book titled From Grassroots To Greatness: 13 Rules to Build Iconic Brands with Community Led Growth. We were expecting twins.

Community 68

Community Kuwait Cofounder Bootstrapping 68

ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

Undifferentiated products are hard to generate excitement and traction around in the highly crowded web, and I suggested they look at DeNovo which sells highly differentiated, limited edition jewelry as a good example of what good merchandising looks like. You can register for upcoming roundtables here.

Acquisition 115

Acquisition SEO San Francisco Affiliate 115

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I remind my students that I’m teaching them a methodology they can use the rest of their careers, not running an incubator. Every once in awhile a team ignores my advice and builds a company worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Hershey just bought Krave Jerky, a team in our 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class, for >$200 million.

North America 120

North America Lean Customer Development Distribution 120

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I asked her not to spray and pray, and focus on her core, differentiated products - stretch mark and c-section mark removal creams for new mothers. In addition, we are offering entrepreneurs access to investors and customers through our recently launched our 1M/1M Incubation Radar series. Ma Mi Skin Care. This is her core market.

Bootstrapping 114

Bootstrapping Marketing Angel Investor Silicon Valley 114

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

and e-commerce businesses, so I would love to work with Kelly to help her figure out the various nuances of building a successful e-commerce business, especially one that differentiates on personalization. I like the business idea a lot, and in 1M/1M, we know a lot about building Web 3.0 You can register for the next roundtable here.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Vertical Massachusetts 114

YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2019

These types of products won’t differentiate you in the market. It is important to have space where your idea can be tested, such as business incubators or hubs. Only in this way your startup can be different. If you walk on the same roads as anybody else, you will have an agricultural farm that will grow the classical types of cereals.

Florida 113

Florida Green Startup Incubator 113

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Validation also means positioning your business in a crowded market, finding the gap and establishing your differentiated, defensible market position. At 1M/1M, we have squarely focused on this simple gap that has been left open by most business schools. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

Early Stage 116

Early Stage India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 116

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

The discussion centered on where in the Indian market could Fragochem sell its fragrances with less competition, reasonably good margins and adequate differentiation. Chetan has expertise in fragrance development and the company is in a turnaround situation. You can register for the upcoming roundtables here.

Networking 115

Networking Partner Entrepreneur Bootstrapping 115

Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Funding and differentiating your service or brand will definitely help. The application process will give you a roadmap and likely where you can operate,” explains Norman Olson, director of marketing and Business Affairs at Hightech Extracts , an engineering company developing systems for the manufacturing of extract-based products.

Las Vegas 144

Las Vegas District of Columbia Colorado North America 144

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 25, 2017

E-commerce incubator A Better Lemonade Stand also points out that it’s easy to diversify inventory by merely adding new items to your store. This increases competition, meaning that businesses should have a selling point that differentiates them from the competition.

Incubator 64

Incubator Business Model Differentiation Acquisition 64

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Solution 2: Use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model to differentiate among the three types. The process recognizes that Innovation isn’t a single activity (an incubator, a class, etc.) Problem 2: The word “Innovation” actually describes three very different types of activities. it is a process from start to deployment.

Community 247

Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 247

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

I was recently interviewed by the team of eFounders , the new Parisian SaaS start-up incubator founded by Thibaud Elzière (Fotolia) and Quentin Nickmans. They are running a series of interviews of European VCs investing in SaaS and I was lucky to be the first one. Mobile will drive new use cases.

API 48

API Silicon Valley Europe Differentiation 48