Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

It’s a great survival strategy for small companies or entrepreneurs, and a good expansion strategy for even the largest companies. For example, if you're selling a travel magazine, you could add a free travel video when someone buys a subscription. Of course, for a strategic alliance to work, you must take precautions.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

According to a January 2012 article in Forbes Magazine , nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. For many entrepreneurs, college has little appeal. Despite the relative dominance of product-oriented innovations, they seldom create sustainable competitive advantages. ." [Tweet this quote].

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Every entrepreneur should spend plenty of time thinking about competitors, and how they relate to your business, but you need to be very careful what you say out loud about them to your team, your investors, and your customers. You won’t get any credibility for refusing to admit that airplanes are competition for trains.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What do entrepreneurs do when they finally establish their startup? It’s a competition where entrepreneurs take the stage and proceed to pitch their startup ideas and their visions for the future. Pirate summit also adds a financial incentive of $50,000 to spice up the competition. Disrupt SF ( Sep 18-20).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2011

It’s a great survival strategy for small companies or entrepreneurs, and a good expansion strategy for even the largest companies. For example, if you're selling a travel magazine, you could add a free travel video when someone buys a subscription. Of course, for a strategic alliance to work, you must take precautions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Every entrepreneur should spend plenty of time thinking about competitors, and how they relate to your business, but you need to be very careful what you say out loud about them to your team, your investors, and your customers. You won’t get any credibility for refusing to admit that airplanes are competition for trains.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

Entrepreneurs could learn about loneliness of success: nobody talks about. The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur. But needed to be seen. Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015. And the immediate reaction was obvious – that failure can be pretty lonely, too. Of course that’s true. On what it feels like during the struggle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2010

Every entrepreneur should spend plenty of time thinking about competitors, and how they relate to your business, but you need to be very careful what you say out loud about them to your team, your investors, and your customers. You won’t get any credibility for refusing to admit that airplanes are competition for trains.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

In the summer of 1985, he was in Jobs’ office when a photographer for Fortune magazine arrived to shoot Steve for an upcoming cover. I gathered ten such examples which are particularly relevant to entrepreneurs. I regularly bring successful entrepreneurs into my UC Santa Barbara classroom. We built it for ourselves.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

While Google still gets stellar reviews for pay, perks and advancement, there are also some employees who note growing pains that you’d expect from such a huge company, including the stress associated with a competitive environment. Entrepreneur and Marketer, VP of Marketing at When I Work – Click here for original article.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

While Google still gets stellar reviews for pay, perks and advancement, there are also some employees who note growing pains that you’d expect from such a huge company, including the stress associated with a competitive environment. Entrepreneur and Marketer, VP of Marketing at When I Work – Click here for original article.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Is this competitive with Modern Mom? Lolita Carrico: I don't think it's competitive. We don't think of ourselves as mommy bloggers, Gloss is not a blog but really an online magazine and community. Tags: lolita carrico gloss network startup interview content women advice entrepreneur modernmom. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

It’s the new magazine. Use that as a source of competition. Using the fashion-sharing example, imagine turning your shared fashion photos into beautiful magazine-like collages that can be scrolled through, Pinterest style. But Pinterest’s success really proves the point I’ve been making.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

One of the most frequent questions entrepreneurs ask about when they raise a little bit of money or are getting close to launching their first product is whether they should hire a PR firm. Whether we like to admit it or not, PR drives behavior with customers, investors, employees and competition.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market. Targeting images and adding video content is a nice premium alternative to the traditional buys that are extremely competitive.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing. We bought our first company in 2017 to create this, and we rolled up a few companies to bring this vision to life.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

A profile of the state of the Bitcoin industry and its presence of female entrepreneurs. Pinguino Kolb – Owner of Spelunk.in , an online crypto currency magazine. A clear distinction our female entrepreneurs have made here has been their active decisions to hit the ground running. Bitcoin’s PR War.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Let me be clear – a product or consulting startup today without a blog, even with a static website, risks not being competitive in cost and time to reach and hold that critical mass of online customers. For example, if you mention an article you read in XYZ magazine, make sure to include a hyperlink to the article. Add outgoing links.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. We were based in London.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Richard dropped out of school at the age of 16 to begin publishing a magazine targeted to young people, called Student. Despite the fact that these companies encompass wildly divergent industries, they all share the competitive advantage of a unique umbrella brand that is impossible to replicate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2021

In that context, I came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine. Effective entrepreneurs are always open to learning, no matter what their prior experience. The points all still ring true today.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 6, 2015

I am always on the lookout for inspiring entrepreneurs who have leveraged their passions into healthy livelihoods as they serve as instructive role models for my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students. Greathouse: Like most successful entrepreneurs, it sounds like you did a heck of a lot of on-the-job learning.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I don’t intend either, Burstly has respectable and strong competition. He has many of the attributes I look for in an entrepreneur and importantly he has deep domain experience in ad management. He’s a natural leader, appropriately competitive, very customer focused and a pleasure to work with.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 21, 2019

She used her meager savings to purchase a sewing machine and began creating dresses from magazine photos, which she sold for $25 each. Ida wasn’t even the first modern-day entrepreneur to offer women brassieres. She was an entrepreneur at a time when entrepreneurial women were few and far between.”.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Want to be an entrepreneur? In addition, Entrepreneur Magazine recently included UCSB in its Top 50 Schools For VC Backed Entrepreneurs at number 37. Apeel Sciences - Founded in 2012, after winning $10,000 at UCSB’s New Venture Competition, the company closed $1.25M in funding during 2013. Techpreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We try to hire people who we believe will be upfront and respectful of entrepreneurs and know that it’s far easier to judge ones decisions on the outside than it actually is to have to make the tough decisions inside of a startup every day. Empowerment is hard for most startup entrepreneurs. Yes, I know this is too long.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. They are: Fred Wilson: Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur. Often board members give entrepreneurs two bits of advice regarding scale: Get a mentor. twenty in your wallet?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

magazine , acquiring a new customer costs about five to nine times more than it does to sell to an existing one, and on average, current customers spend 67 percent more than new ones. They operate like competitive retention, forcing you to win every transaction over competitors. business customer loyalty entrepreneur startup'

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2013

In that context, I came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine. Effective entrepreneurs are always open to learning, no matter what their prior experience. The points all still ring true today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2013

magazine , acquiring a new customer costs about five to nine times more than it does to sell to an existing one, and on average, current customers spend 67% more than new ones. These operate like competitive retention, which means you must win every transaction over competitors. According to Inc. Nobody said it would be easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2012

In that context, I recently came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine. Effective entrepreneurs are always open to learning, no matter what their prior experience.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

As part of that, we started asking professors for recommendations on who we could talk to, and we found out they only knew one person, or told us to check out a magazine, or Google this and that. Michael Chasin: We initially started with $30,000 in angel funding from an entrepreneur here in Los Angeles.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

5) When I interviewed people at my past startups, I rejected them if they asked me about our dental plan, as true entrepreneurs don’t care about such pedestrian benefits. And we hired folks who had previous leadership positions and proof points of being competitive. We decided to hire people that were younger and are trainable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

In that context, I recently came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine. Effective entrepreneurs are always open to learning, no matter what their prior experience. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2011

Even the main industry rag, Online Dating Magazine , admits that the success rate is a mere one percent, compared to an estimated fifty percent for startups in general. Here are six key reasons, from a business perspective: Direct competition is huge. Online dating sites usually fail because online dating usually fails.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2013

Even the main industry rag, Online Dating Magazine , admits that the success rate is a mere one percent, compared to an estimated fifty percent for startups in general. Here are six key reasons, from a business perspective: Direct competition is huge. Online dating sites usually fail because online dating usually fails.

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