Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

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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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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Technical Review Angel Investor Differentiation Business Model 297

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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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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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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Equity Cofounder Technical Cofounder Intellectual Property 238

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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New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 254

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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Developer Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 520

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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New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 246

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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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Differentiation through trust-building and value alignment is becoming the ultimate competitive edge as traditional lead-generation methods wane. And so this differentiation through brand marketing is, I mean, it was so important, frankly, before we actually even had a lot of the online and digital channels that exist today.

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Generative AI Marketing Campaign Differentiation 80

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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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 22, 2024

Technical Skills: Besides strategy, a fractional CMO must possess strong technical skills to advise on and implement marketing technologies that optimize operations and enhance efficiency. Obviously, you're going to encounter firms that need a lot of things fixed that need to start adding MarTech to the current stack of technology.

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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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Search Technical Review Differentiation Hiring 181

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

We all know that much of early-stage technology startup success comes from execution and often what you’re working on today will be rolled out more seriously over the next several months. You have tons of differentiation. For early-stage consumer companies I would be careful not to market futures at all. Life goes on.

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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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Cofounder Differentiation Hosting Design 207

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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Technical Review Software Review Bankruptcy Equity 149

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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

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.

New York City 202

New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 202

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Competition from other startups and established incumbents, constraints on time and capital, and limited access to talent and technology resources are just a few of the hurdles nearly every first-time founder faces while trying to build a business. In the startup world, opportunities are fleeting, and obstacles are ubiquitous.

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