Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

And while there is a narrative that most LPs only want to invest in the long-standing Silicon Valley brands that have existed for the past 40 years, there is evidence that many LPs understand that it is possible for new entrants in our industry to stake out grounds of differentiation. Frankly, I’ve never believed this argument.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

More specifically, you asked the hard questions, like: How can ecommerce companies compete with Alexa? They range from straightforward technical optimizations to complex, long-term efforts to differentiate through a superior consumer experience. How can ecommerce companies compete with Alexa? This post has answers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. I wish more startups were rigorous in defining market needs and competitive differentiate versus throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks but it seems as an industry we’re breeding the culture of the latter.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

How do you compete with one of the biggest names in your industry—and with a brand new product? Why compete with Slack? Differentiating our product. We also found out why people switched from Slack, which became the first of two ways we sought to differentiate our product. This was nothing new. We solved some of them.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

” The pioneering fund of funds realize that their source of differentiation is much more about the latter than the former. The value capture in the private markets has also led some hedge funds and other major non-private-market investors to become late-stage VCs.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It’s tough to compete on product alone and you’re likely to see diminishing returns. There have never been more brands competing for attention than there are right now. If you spam the non-buyers with sales CTAs, you’ll only annoy them. If you spam the non-buyers with sales CTAs, you’ll only annoy them. Everyone else?

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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. THE UNSAID STANDARD ADVANTAGES.

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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. THE UNSAID STANDARD ADVANTAGES.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You work tirelessly to understand your customer, market, and competition so you can differentiate. Similarly, understanding that awareness is growing across the industry might prompt AirHelp to team up with a similar company (a non-competitor, but a relevant industry leader) to launch a dual campaign. Brand consideration. Brand usage.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 24, 2020

You may already have some in mind or need to conduct a completely new analysis to better understand who you’ll be competing against in the subscription service space. Then, find ways to differentiate yourself. Get your technical resources on board and start to build a secure and performant product that offers non-stop reliability.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules. In most industries, manufacturing is no longer a core competence of the U.S. Solution 2: Use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model to differentiate among the three types.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2019

The overwhelming majority of ecommerce site visitors are non-purchasers. Further, you’ll never develop a brand that differentiates your products—your site will be just one more faceless ecommerce seller. That makes it even harder to compete with industry behemoths. Yet the average ecommerce conversion rate is between 1 and 3%.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

7:30] Would you say self-publishing is seen as a differentiator for businesses? [11:42] And I think self-publishing is most beneficial non-fiction creators and writers. It's most beneficial for businesses and institutions, educational or otherwise, that are using this for non-fiction utilitarian purposes. Thank you John.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Part of the process of differentiating from a non-profit organization and a for profit business requires a social enterprise to understand how it competes with the business entities on each end of the business spectrum. All non-profits are engaged in some form of fundraising, as it is a necessity to fund their organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

He calls this competing with “non consumption” It was the most profound business strategy book I had read and greatly influenced how I thought about company building and certainly how I think about investing. But a clear, crisp articulation of: What problem you are solving for today’s users of your product (really.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Sam’s goal was to build a tech company fulfilling the need for storing physical items in the cloud and to build a nationally-scaled business that would be hard to compete against. And we get to compete against dinosaurs with no tech skills and cash cows that must be protected while we are the barbarians at the gate.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 26, 2023

Get Your Toolkit Trying To Be All Things To All People Lack Of Competitive Edge Forced To Compete On Price Wasting Money And Resources Inconsistent Branding Low Customer Retention Poor Online Presence Untracked Performance Missed Opportunities Flat Sales And Profits 1. And as we all know, price is a terrible place to compete.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

To earn this ranking, they had to beat out 86,000 other real estate brokerages who were competing for this award. by annual transaction volume, and they also grew at a rate of 11,350 percent over a period of three years, which is four times the growth rate of any other company competing in the real estate brokerage category.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Since sellers are offering nearly or exactly identical items, there’s not much to compete on beyond price. New opportunities have emerged in this space with direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands trying to create differentiation and tilt marketplace dynamics in their favour (e.g. Supply is mostly non-unique (e.g. Uber + Uber Eats).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2014

So from now on, place “capacity for caring” on the list of non-negotiable qualifications for all new hires — right up there with experience and technical competency. When you announce that you’d like to differentiate your company through caring, that notion will sound good to most employees. Teach employees how to care.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Fossil fuels won’t be able to compete on cost. Global e-commerce, lower living costs and higher living standards will create a renaissance for non-city places of great beauty. They’ll leverage their geographic monopolies and localised products, sell to global market places and compete effectively with cities.

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David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

Greycroft’s results give you a sense of the complexity involved: The firm said it had 515 contacts with potential LPs; roughly 250 passed for various reasons and 100 were non-responsive. In 2018, the 8,000 active private equity funds globally had a 15 to 16 percent annual performance differential between top and bottom quartile funds.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

How do you compete with one of the biggest names in your industry—and with a brand new product? Why compete with Slack? Differentiating our product. We also found out why people switched from Slack, which became the first of two ways we sought to differentiate our product. This was nothing new. We solved some of them.

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Differentiation Non-Compete Audio Algorithm 48

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

What I find exciting about Freshdesk is that they may be able to do the same thing in customer support that Zoho did in CRM: a drastic downshifting of the price-point of a full-functionality, differentiated, cutting edge customer support solution. Zendesk is heavily financed by Benchmark and Charles River and has 10,000 customers.

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Berkonomics

MAY 18, 2023

But all will immediately question whether the new business will compete in any way with their enterprise and react to the future entrepreneur in either of two very distinct ways based upon those fears. This is especially true for someone who has sold a business only to surface later to compete in some way with the buyer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

13:51] What are some of the effective ways that you’ve seen people merging digital and non-digital? [16:30] You can compete with anyone at any size if you simply follow the method you're about to learn. What are some of the effective ways that you've seen people merging digital and non-digital? So let's say hybrid market.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

By investing in such education, companies not only adhere to ethical standards but also empower their employees, leading to a more competent and safety-conscious workforce. Moreover, a strong ethical reputation can differentiate a company from its competitors, making it more attractive to potential employees, partners, and investors.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 27, 2020

Try to identify something small or non-threatening that you can work on. Focus on an area where you are clearly differentiated or have a tangible strength vis-à-vis your competitor. Ask yourself, Where do we have a special competency we can leverage? Turnover or retirements at the competition.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 11, 2023

OpenAI is a for-profit, running a venture fund, etc — what types of ‘partnership risk’ is there in backing alternatives who are competing with OpenAI funded startups. AI ‘Middleware’ In a multi-base model world, won’t there be some value created by dynamically switching between models depending on the use case?

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 11, 2014

First, he’s proposing to ban non-competition agreements. Even though I often say that was 11 years and 364 days too many for my “non-big city, non-east coast” personality, Boston still has a sweet spot in my heart. The Massachusetts non-competition situation has always been stupid.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2012

We can all argue the shortcomings and non-defensibility of patents, but these are still your best competitive protection, sustainable for twenty years. Strong focus and differentiation. Combining functions is not a good differentiator. Here are the key ones: Real intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property Non-Compete Differentiation Social Network 244

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In 2021, the Solana blockchain was a big winner, building off the growing popularity in the blockchain community of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and its lower costs in comparison to Ethereum. This stands in contrast to other applications on competing blockchains, which often have user experiences that leave much to be desired.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2011

We can all argue the shortcomings and non-defensibility of patents, but these are still your best competitive protection, sustainable for twenty years. Strong focus and differentiation. Combining functions is not a good differentiator. Here are the key ones: Real intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property Non-Compete Differentiation Social Network 256

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2012

In a world of extreme clutter you need more than differentiation. You need RADICAL differentiation. With differentiation at its core, “ Zag ” distils in simplified form the wisdom of thought leaders like Jack Trout, David A. Which touchpoints let you compete in white space? How do people engage with you?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I think this idea is going to become, it's actually been a significant differentiator for brands, but I think it's going to become that. I, I, but it's also something that people are probably sick of hearing about and that's NFTs non fungible tokens. So the, the idea of a non fungible token, what is it? All right.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I expect this idea to become a significant differentiator for brands. With the advent of AI in the realm of content creation, many small businesses will be able to compete in the content game by employing inexpensive content partners armed with AI tools. . People will make choices based much more on connection with a brand.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

In your head you know that the reality is that bigger companies simply CANNOT compete effectively on all fronts. You need to be clear on what your sources of differentiation are from the biggest competitors or you’re dead anyways. It will be differentiated. You must figure out how you deliver real differentiation.

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