Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

In this world of constant change, new technologies, and a thousand cultures, it’s evident and somehow comforting to me that the basic rules for business prosperity really haven’t changed in the last hundred years. Business success is still more about the people than the technology or idea involved. Master-mind alliance. Applied faith.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Effective Ways To Differentiate And Scale Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Key Takeaway: A major challenge many businesses face is trying to find ways to differentiate and scale. And we are not a tremendously innovative and technology savvy industry. Marketing Podcast with Debbie Howard.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

It turns out it actually takes time to build a high-growth business with differentiated intellectual property and roll out large, enterprise-class marketing solutions. I remain a huge supporter and am very proud of our accomplishments and hugely optimistic about our future. 5 years ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

You need a set of innate skills that differentiate you from the thousands of others who set out on your similar journey. Since I work with video a lot I have the chance to be both a product pontificator and an avid user of the technology. Roger Ehrenberg with big data and also financial technology companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

Nanea Reeves has a storied career in senior leadership roles at technology companies. I asked Nanea about how she differentiates between managing engineers and product managers across her organization. Office politics – including Nanea’s experience being a woman in technology. Company Organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

He ties business success and your personal summit to elevating your customers’ experience with the following specific recommendations and key differentiators: Listen to the individual customer. Engagement and an emotional connection will make a customer relationship the driving force for loyalty and differentiation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

What in your product is truly differentiated in the market to solve this problem (where do you believe you’re strong against the competition in functionality or delivery). INNOVATOR’S DILEMMA. But a clear, crisp articulation of: What problem you are solving for today’s users of your product (really. why did they buy?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Key Takeaways The senior living industry is booming: With the aging population driving demand, senior living marketers must differentiate themselves from the crowded market. Debbie’s SMART Marketing framework: Strategy, Marketing Automation, Analytics, Resources, and Technology. And then the T is for technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2014

You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology or money. If none of these five items is a clear differentiator in your case, a logical approach would be to assign each an equal weight of 20 percent of the total, and partition the total equity based on each co-founder’s correlation to each variable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2023

You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology, or money. If none of these five items is a clear differentiator in your case, a logical approach would be to assign each an equal weight of 20% of the total, and partition the total equity based on each cofounder’s correlation to each variable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

You need a big differentiator in these arenas. Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Products requiring changes to government regulations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

New technology markets and paradigm shifts have traditionally been bad bets when seeking investors, since these were known to take decades to develop, and cost lots of money. Many customers now actively seek out new technologies, rather than wait for many others to try it first. The leading edge was too often the bleeding edge.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Sometimes the simplest technology is best. .” “Sticking” means plumbing a wooden dowl through top of the wing, into the gas tank, judging the gas level by the height of the resulting wetness. Wooden sticks don’t run out of batteries or make you wait forty-seven minutes for a security update. Trust, but verify.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology, or money. If none of these five items is a clear differentiator in your case, a logical approach would be to assign each an equal weight of 20% of the total, and partition the total equity based on each co-founder’s correlation to each variable.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With the continuous advances in technology, it’s easier than ever for businesses to get work done remotely. While technology continues advancing at a rapid pace, we’re also adopting more creative ways to utilize this technology, giving people and businesses access to more opportunity in so many different areas.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 6, 2024

According to 2023 statistics , the top businesses in the electronic industry are Apple, Cannon, and Dell, and surprisingly all three of them have worked tirelessly on the integration of technologies in strategic decision-making at every step of their operations.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Of course we have to believe that there is a viable market, a differentiated product offering and a chance to build something defensible but if you do those basics right you still get crushed without an amazingly talented founder. Brand Jamie was one of the first entrepreneurs I knew to go on Shark Tank. He was steadfast.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Although CRM – the technologies mentioned above – have several advantages, less than one-third of all real estate firms actually make use of them. One of the most compelling arguments in favor of custom software development is that it allows business owners to differentiate their products from the competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. 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. It’s worth a quick read.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

Even more likely is eventual technology disruption where drones deliver foods and make it hard for existing car delivery services to compete. And the market would still have DoorDash and PostMates duking it out as well as the potential that players like Instacart broadens its business one day or Amazon gets into food delivery.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

You need a big differentiator in these arenas. Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Products requiring changes to government regulations.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. ” Harsh, but reality. If you had huge customer growth but just didn’t focus on revenue that’s a different story.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

How will you differentiate from these? Do you have a custom algorithm or other technology? How do you measure success? Who are your big competitors? What are some sites or companies in the same space? What is different, special here? Where’s the mystery? What special data, content, APIs, etc., will you leverage?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

But as impressive as its technology is, the Apple’s smartwatch has been a product looking for a solution. Frustrated by the FDA’s 20 th century processes for 21 st century technology, companies hired lobbyists to force a change in the laws that guide the FDA regulations. When I was a kid, this was science fiction. to the iPhone.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

You need a big differentiator in these arenas. Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Products requiring changes to government regulations.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We just had our first week of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. If the past is a prologue, they’ll go off to senior roles in defense, policy and to the companies building new disruptive technologies. Technology to Weapons to Doctrine. And that has happened to us. As we described how the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Be customer focused, not technology focused. You need a business model that provides a good return for you and your team, long-term growth, value to your customer, and differentiates you from competitors. Find market evidence of customers with means who are willing to pay for a solution. Pay attention to the market.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2017

Customer support is one venue where start-ups can differentiate themselves from their larger competitors. Keep in mind that in technology 99.9% Once they feel you understand them and their issues, they will be more open to suggestions, which in technology usually means adapting to a new process, feature or upgrade.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

I think that mindset is useful to remind entrepreneurs that it is a shared journey and capital (whether active or passive) is a part of your success and your ability to access it when you need to and for the amounts you need is a very critical differentiator between successful companies and unsuccessful one.

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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. From a technology perspective our journey is nowhere near over.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Newell ran the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2017

To attract the best candidates, they need to differentiate your company and your opportunity. With these questions, and the commensurate work on your part, you too can attract rockstars who can really make your winning technology a leading business in the marketplace. How will they position your company and opportunity?

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 7, 2022

Technologies and Tools. Marketing is also getting more difficult because of the technologies and tools involved in the field. In some ways, this is ironic; Most new marketing technologies are designed to make marketing easier, or at least open up new opportunities for marketers to reach consumers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

We believe that it is incrementally harder to differentiate on simple Internet products or mobile apps and while great companies are built doing this, our goal as a fund is to try and fund things that can be 100x returns if they work. We’re not Pollyannaish about this.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Since we live in an age where technology can help with just about anything, smart business owners are taking advantage of customer experience management tools and solutions. Chatbot technology has advanced significantly and can now provide useful information while also allowing you to learn more about your audience. Render feedback.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The aim is to develop a differentiated and new identity in the minds of consumers, competitors, investors, and other stakeholders. Be Ready With Advanced Technology. Rebranding a business also means being ready to adopt modern and advanced technology like Customer Relationship Management or CRM software. Conclusion.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

But 21st century companies face compressed technology cycles, which create the need for continuous innovation over a longer period of time. While unique technology or market insight is one component of a successful startup everyone agrees that attracting and retaining A+ talent differentiates the winners from the losers.

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