View from Seed

APRIL 2, 2024

A few big players emerge that compete on scale and scope, much like AB Inbev in the beer industry and the megafunds in venture. The best way to compete in this world was to pursue a craft strategy on the opposite side of the spectrum focused on small scale production of high-quality products.

Merger 343

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It’s very unusual for two competitors to have exactly the same strengths – in development, marketing, distribution, or customer support. Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution. Similar companies, even though competitors, usually face economies of scale and overlapping distribution channels.

Partner 434

Partner Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property Non-Compete 434

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2020

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are feeling deeper and deeper in the hole. The non-technical leadership attributes of excellent communication skills, high integrity, passion, and perseverance are critical for the success of the whole team.

Non-Compete 435

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you. It’s hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency. Startups are often distributed entities, so adding and managing freelancers, contractors, and outsourcing firms is not a big step.

Intellectual Property 120

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

What neither group seems to fully comprehend is that retail needs to fundamentally change to succeed, far beyond the addition of an online component, to meet the experience expectations of today’s generation, an oversupplied global marketplace, and technology for instant pricing and distribution.

Customer 130

Customer eCommerce Non-Compete Technical Review 130

ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Interviewing them will provide you with their wants and needs from a messaging perspective and uncover topic ideas and distribution channels. Much like your audience analysis report, it will ensure everyone involved in the planning, production, and distribution process is aligned. Select your content distribution channels.

Audience 127

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2021

The challenge of a creating a new product or service is tough enough, without insisting on a new supply chain, and a new distribution channel. The most effective startups focus on their core competency, and work hard to pick the best of the rest for partners. Seek out established suppliers and channels.

Non-Compete 425

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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. We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. Underbelly.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2017

If you stop working for the company, how will that impact your voting and distribution rights? In a nightmare scenario, an employee can start up a competing company, and leave with customers, employees and intellectual property, demolishing everything you’ve worked hard to build. Think about your employee and ownership hats.

Partner 208

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

More specifically, you asked the hard questions, like: How can ecommerce companies compete with Alexa? Voice search will make some companies less competitive, like non-Amazon sellers of commodity goods. Still, the queries that continue to shift from text to voice are not distributed evenly across all topics. Yes, we’re sure.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2020

When starting a new business you should consider the potential industries your company may have the best opportunity to compete in. How to start a non-emergency medical transport business. To help with this, we’ve compiled a list of the top 4 industries that show the most promise for startups in 2020. Technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

LPs have been feeling great about venture capital due to holding valuable paper positions in companies like Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Dropbox, all of which they feel confident will drive large cash distributions in the future. Without some cash distributions, eventually LPs will become stretched. Luckily, LPs seem to agree with this thesis.

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Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2021

The process of calculating and distributing taxes and wages. Incorrectly identifying workers as exempt or non-exempt. If a non-exempt employee is treated as an exempt employee, they miss out on overtime or an hourly wage, which will result in wage theft. The amount paid to employees each pay period.

Small Business 82

Small Business Software Review Non-Compete Salary 82

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Finally, all TMS systems will include business management features, such as payment distribution, analytics dashboards, and rate sheets. It’s helpful to seek customer referrals from non-competing organizations. For instance, various solutions will provide features for access management, task automation, and workflow setup.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

And I think you're right, you touched on the advent of technology surrounding publishing, as well as all the different things you can do now as a self-published author, as it relates to, you know, distribution channels. And again, for a lot of people, that's what they were concerned with was distribution. Thank you John.

Audience 96

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. An aspiring entrant would need to build a network of railways to compete independently. And why is it so difficult for others to compete? Followers are non-transferable capital that users store on the platform.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2019

The overwhelming majority of ecommerce site visitors are non-purchasers. That makes it even harder to compete with industry behemoths. As reports note , a strong brand is the best way for ecommerce companies to compete with giants like Amazon. Interviews deliver original content and can kick off distribution. Blog posts.

eCommerce 131

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

We realized that operating a business in distributed markets presented multi-city coordination efforts that we weren’t prepared for. were more distributed. We have well financed competitors whom despite competing with we respect deeply and when you see your competition launching in many markets it’s tempting to follow suit.

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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. In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. With enough resources, products can always be copied.

Marketing 109

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

While some non-luxuries become luxuries as we evolve in other areas. A non exhaustive list of the evolution of luxury: Settlement: Becoming masters of our domain to the point where we didn’t need to be a species of nomads. Conspicuous consumption: Hello 1980′s, competing with the Joneses.

Non-Compete 78

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It wins through better distribution, logistics, inventory management, warehousing, customer support, merchandising, cross-selling and ultimately on price & scale. 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.

Technical Review 150

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are feeling deeper and deeper in the hole. The non-technical leadership attributes of excellent communication skills, high integrity, passion, and perseverance are critical for the success of the whole team.

Technology 217

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Key elements of the value chain include distribution, suppliers, sales channels, and reliance on coopetition. Continually expand your team competency into new areas. Nokia had a deep competency in cell phone technology, and owned a major share of the market, but they were slow to expand into the software and accessories of smartphones.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Fossil fuels won’t be able to compete on cost. The Energy Internet Emerges: We will be trading energy with each other through a new type of distributed energy grid. Global e-commerce, lower living costs and higher living standards will create a renaissance for non-city places of great beauty.

Software Review 91

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Non-Compete 91

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

For example, you could deploy CSAT surveys at various parts of the buyer’s journey (distributed across leads so as not to bombard a single customer with multiple questions). On a scale from 0 to 10, how likely are you to switch to a competing product in the future? Brand consideration. Brand visibility. Brand usage.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Generally, a new company can’t undercut the established players in terms of pricing or get wider distribution, but a new idea gives you an advantage that money can’t buy. Niche markets are a way to avoid competing with the many bigger legacy firms that have far greater resources than you do, not to mention an established customer base.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Then he'll describe his cutting-edge platform — cloud-based, scalable, distributed version control, continuous integration, one-click-deploy. you have to truly bare your soul if you want to compete on the transparency front. Maybe you'll even get a wobbly demo. He didn't just have an "authentic voice," he made public promises.

Software Review 261

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

It is almost impossible to compete if you aren’t offering more than just your services. However, you need to make sure to build high-quality links for your clients, not just any links you can get like comment and forum spam or non contextual backlinks on private blog networks. Content Marketing.

Non-Compete 147

Non-Compete SEO PPC B2B 147

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2014

It’s very unusual for two competitors to have exactly the same strengths – in development, marketing, distribution, or customer support. Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution. Similar companies, even though competitors, usually face economies of scale and overlapping distribution channels.

Non-disclosure Agreement 257

Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property Startup Non-Compete 257

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2014

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are falling deeper and deeper in the hole. The non-technical leadership attributes of excellent communication skills, high integrity, passion and perseverance are critical for the success of the whole team.

Partner 259

Partner Entrepreneur Non-Compete Cofounder 259

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Creativity is happening within communities and platforms which bring together distribution and collaboration. There also weren’t a lot of novel ‘consumer startups’ being built in non-gaming areas, so Creator Economy was attractive to folks who didn’t want to work in B2B. Global Fandom.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

He wasn’t consciously giving a glib non-answer; he was understandably, desperately avoiding it. If you’re Oracle with 47 product lines in 100 countries and 20 languages with distributed teams of tech writers is this the best tool? click and competed with no other advertisers. But this was 2003 when AdWords was new.

Customer 279

Customer Software Review SEM Technical Review 279

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The discussion extends to the evolving role of leadership, with a focus on empathy as a crucial competency. And that kind of notion, think back 30 years ago, that would've been impossible, but now it's a leadership competency we're talking about. We know that diverse teams are better performing than non-diverse teams.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

From our perspective, Facebook is both our friend (training hundreds of talented future entrepreneurs) and enemy (competing with our portfolio companies for top talent like Max.) You have an array of N unique numbers distributed uniformly at random. Max obtained approval from Facebook for the post below. 6) Use algorithms questions.

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Engineer Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 138

blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Bemoaning that non-technical people are the first to filter resumes is silly because it’s not going to change. To sort facts from folk wisdom, I isolated some features that were universal among resumes and would be easy to spot by technical and non-technical people alike and then ran statistical significance tests on them.

CTO Hire 98

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 98

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 14, 2021

Below are current market cap estimates for competing SoV products. But slowly, we’re seeing some promising signs of using the dominant security and liquidity of the Bitcoin base chain to better secure smart contracts and other assets like non-fungible tokens (NFTs). . Bitcoin is still not even visible on the chart! .

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

For each of these, there is a human element (non-scaleable) and the possibility of a tech layer (which any one VC will only have implemented to varying extents). We have insight on the competencies of our companies’ personnel, and who is hiring or shrinking. This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service.

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