Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

While the market isn't short of spritely, innovative entrepreneurs, harsh economic headwinds combined with a pullback in investor spending have made it harder than ever for budding businesses to break through. Source: runwayml.com In June, Runway raised $141 million in funding, nudging its market valuation to an envy-inducing $1.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Investors are looking for a concise description of your product or service without technical jargon or fuzzy marketing terms with value quantified in customer terms. This is also the place to first mention patents and any other differentiators that put you ahead of competition. What are your specific marketing and sales plans?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Side Note : Upfront has hired Kerry Bennett as a member of our executive management team to run marketing – please follow her on Twitter here ].

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

PlayVS supports high school e-sport athletes and celebrates competitive e-sports, allowing any student enrolled in high school to join a team and compete online, with no limit to unique teams per high school and without having to tryout. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2016

Many entrepreneurs assume that everyone will love their solution as much as they do, so they tune their marketing focus based on their own needs and wants. Expanding your market into these areas requires thinking outside your personal box. Identify your built-in biases and define compensating development and marketing strategies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Offer incentives or competition. There is nothing like friendly competition or an attractive reward to bring out a new base of un-edited ideas. If your imagination is primarily technical by nature, then you need to complement your efforts by attracting partners with more imagination in marketing, sales, finance, and operations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Market and customer positioning. Clearly focusing on the right market and customer profile sets your competitor differentiation. Competitive and leadership leverage. A good strategy provides opportunities for internal actions and leaders to optimize and extend a firm’s competitive advantage.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. We raised this capital in what has increasingly become a difficult market for fund raising so I’d like to share with you some details on how we get it done.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2016

For CES gaming in 2016, VR devices were at the front and center even more prominently than before – but a few other fantastic upcoming products also made a splash. The post CES 2016 Gaming: What You Missed and Shouldn’t Have appeared first on TechZulu. The Final Oculus Rift Heading for Shelves. Laptop gamers, rejoice!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. Nearly EVERY smart VC I know has been talking privately for the past two years about how ridiculous valuations in private markets have gotten and how a reckoning was coming.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2016

mPulse was formed in April of 2015, as a spinoff of a company called mobileStorm, which has been in mobile marketing and communications for the last fifteen years. For those of us not familiar with the market, what is it that you are adding with mPulse which isn't out there already? It's a highly competitive market.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Since its inception, HTT recognized that creating a market around a mode of transportation that had not yet been created would take a movement. Originally incorporated as Hyperloop Technologies, Hyperloop One is the second company to enter the market to actualize the Hyperloop concept.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

Although Arena of Valor didn’t quite take off in Western markets, it has done well in Southeast Asia in part thanks to Tencent’s publishing partnership with the region’s internet giant Garena. That raises the question of whether Tencent can replicate its success in overseas markets where its social apps are largely absent.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal. Like with many consumer brands geared toward women, we buy in not just because of the marketing, but because of the product itself. Glossier’s commoditized feminism aside, it’s no easy task to launch a $1.8 And who cares?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. In today’s information overload, marketing is everything. Use every marketing channel available.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Even businesses with highly specialized market segments will find it more effective and simpler to focus on who customers are as people, rather than the “what” of their demographic attributes. Customer value statements must come from customer feedback to other customers, rather than from your marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

zettabytes by the year 2016. Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths. Look beyond today’s requirements for entire new market opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Target market sizing higher than $10 billion. It’s true that investors like large markets, preferably in the billion dollar range and growing, but sizing a startup market greater than the GNP of many countries is just not credible. Sales projections are less than one percent market penetration. Skip the hype.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

After reviewing her day-by-day recommendations to improve productivity in a single week, I have extrapolated her guidance to ten productivity tips specifically for entrepreneurs to regain that competitive edge: Focus on managing yourself rather than managing others. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/31/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2016

Even worse, this “feature creep” often makes the final product late to market, sluggish and more expensive than competition. Focus” is the key to success in a startup, and a minimum viable product (MVP) that does a few things better than anyone else will get more attention quicker from your market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Another good online approach is a simple Internet search for articles like the “ The Best Startup Accelerators Of 2016 ” But don’t expect incubators to magically convert your pre-hatched idea into a successful company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

For IBM, the Personal Computer was a paradigm shift from their big business legacy, built with new technologies for totally new markets, and battleships turn very slowly. Measurements set on internal objectives, rather than market traction. Corporate entities operate under strict competitive and accounting rules.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2016

It’s tempting for technical founders to seek more depth on technical issues, when they need marketing and financial help. Don’t let your ego or time management abilities rob you of this valuable competitive advantage. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/24/2016. I assure you, the returns will far exceed your costs.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In 2016, that represented a couple of unique concepts. As time has gone on, the company then shifted into the ridesharing market, essentially operating as a car availability platform for Uber and Lyft drivers. There's real competition in this area. One, was it allowed you to get a used car subscription with your phone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

They are just someone’s opinion about impact which still belong in marketing collateral, but won’t make you memorable. It can be your competitive advantage over peers and existing players, and it’s fun to do. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 09/24/2016. How prepared are you to tell your best story?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

First-to-market is a key competitive advantage. Too many startups are proud of being the first-mover in a new market -- only to be overrun by big gorillas with more resources who see the startup traction. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 02/10/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work.

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LATechDigest

JUNE 13, 2016

Reaching Hispanic Markets. LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) June 6, 2016. LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) June 6, 2016. LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) June 6, 2016. RECESS Finals Competition Wrapped at CTRL. LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) June 10, 2016. Kathleen Milbier (@kath4short) June 8, 2016.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

Georg Richter: For the five years before I started the company in January of 2016, I was at Guthy Renker, which is one of the largest and biggest direct marketing companies in the world. So, we build that and started offering it to the market. Strangely enough, there's no competition there. How did you get into this?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2016

It’s like trying to sell a home still being built at next year’s dream market price. Patents filed, even provisional, as well as trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets count as barriers to entry and sustainable competitive advantages. Get premium for billion-dollar markets with double-digit growth rates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2016

Every entrepreneur I know starts out with a strong conviction that their solution is a perfect match for their target market, and yet almost every one later admits a need to “pivot” before finding their groove. This confuses customers, and dilutes your marketing impact. Change competitive positioning and pricing to improve traction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2016

Seek evidence of market opportunity to balance your passion. These days, there are over 150 credible market-research companies online sizing opportunities, including Nielsen and Gartner. The average overnight success for a startup takes six years, say marketing expert Seth Godin. A business is a journey -- not a quick sprint.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Anne Fulton: I'm actually a Kiwi, a New Zealander, and all of our product and marketing is done out of New Zealand. I think we're seeing our growth finally is starting to be exponential, while back in 2015 and 2016 we found we needed to have some patience. How is it your first customer was in Australia? versus New Zealand?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2016

The right channel for marketing and distribution is one of the basic “four Ps” of business (product, promotion, price and placement). For growing revenue and market share, it’s a key element of your overall strategy, and one that can make or break you. In many product areas, especially retail, the channel is the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2016

Secret sauce' or competitive advantage is not clear. They know that showing market traction will attract big companies, like Apple or Google, who can easily overrun the best startup. Market is new or unproven, or your solution is 'disruptive.' When Facebook first started looking for investors, there was so social-media market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

I believe that the resourcefulness to turn constraints into competitive differentiators and new opportunities is a trait that separates the great entrepreneurs from the “wannabes.” Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 02/19/2016. Do it yourself with new tools rather than hire outside help.

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