socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2011

alleging "false designation of origin and unfair competition" over the phrase "Memory Lane". United Online shifted Classmates into the nostalgic content market in February, as adoption of social networking sites like Facebook made the firm's prior business model irrelevant. The suit was filed by Memory Lane Inc., READ MORE>>.

Woodland Hills 145

Woodland Hills Sample Social Network Competition 145

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. Select it well – marketers will tell you that you will be selling your name, more than your products. A sample agreement is available for free download from my website.

Startup 145

Startup Patents IP Social Media 145

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2023

Make sure your future demand plan embodies a holistic view of the business, including achievement of strategic objectives, market share, efficiency and effectiveness of marketing activities, as well as plan revenue and margins. Key strategic factors for every business should include profits, growth, and competition.

Metrics 81

Metrics Demand Statistics Sample 81

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Here are ten sample considerations that I believe will reveal positive indications of your potential as an entrepreneur, and also indicate that you will select good ideas: You see creating a business as a fun challenge. To build a startup, you have to enjoy the broad range of challenges, from technical to marketing to sales to personnel.

Entrepreneur 121

Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Sample 121

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Here is a sample of the reading list for the course that gives you a flavor for just how modern and practical this course is. My list of excuses includes: product, pricing, competition and lack of sales support. In my post I specifically talked about the integration of marketing and sales.

Startup 319

Startup Sales Course Competition 319

Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

BlackTech Week was created in 2014, and in four short years, they’ve gained over 2700 participants, 150 speakers, and 3 pitch competitions. Indiegogo is a platform for ground breaking technology and where you can find interesting products that haven’t hit the mainstream market. BlackTech Week (Miami, FL).

Startup 137

Startup Technical Review Competition Software Review 137

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

They were a little too fierce in their competitive practices against Lyft to sign up drivers. As somebody who has to rub shoulders with big tech companies often I can tell you that there is much blood spilled in the competitive trenches of Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Google and so on. My sample is over years. Hardly “evil.”

Press 418

Press Journal Startup Training 418

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

With the speed of change and volume of market feedback today, as well as the advances in machine learning, Amazon, Alibaba, and others have proven the value of software driven strategy decisions. No human or paper tracking systems are a competitive alternative. Configure every decision step into real-time software.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Metrics Commerce Software 84

socalTECH

JULY 8, 2010

Whoever wins, these are some of the local firms in interesting markets--and their tough, well-backed head-to-head competition--worth watching. HauteLook, one of the first firms to capitalize on the sample/private sales market, is already profitable and is growing rapidly. DocStoc vs. Scribd. DocStoc - Profile.

Southern California 124

Southern California Rustic Canyon SoCal Startup 124

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It’s no secret that the rate of failure of new business startups may be a high as ninety percent , so we all need all the help we can get, validating the opportunity, clearly positioning against competitors, projecting financials, and planning all the necessary marketing and operating activities.

Ideas 126

Ideas Slides Sample Examples 126

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs. Define the characteristics of the overall industry, market forces, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Investors like $1B markets with double-digit growth rates.

Slides 99

Slides Competition Sample Sales 99

SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Death By Competitive Analysis - Steve Blank , March 1, 2010 Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product. In response he sent me a competitive analysis. It looked like every competitive analysis I had done for 20 years, (ok maybe better.) And it made me sad.

Startup 150

Startup Software Review Competition Southern California 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2020

Here are ten sample questions that I believe will reveal positive indications of your potential as an entrepreneur, and also indicate that you will select good ideas: You see creating a business as a fun challenge. To build a startup, you have to enjoy the broad range of challenges, from technical to marketing to sales to personnel.

Startup 127

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Sample 127

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As a product or service you can often trade short exclusivity periods for the retailer’s willingness to spend marketing dollars promoting your product or give you better merchandising in the physical or virtual store. It is on this last point where Amazon is best positioned to dominate markets. So Why Does This Matter?

Product 296

Product Course Customer Custom 296

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2012

Modern investors love to first read a two-page summary of your business plan, formatted like a glossy marketing collateral sheet, with text well laid out in columns and sidebars, and a couple of relevant graphics. Take a look at my website for the Sample Executive Summary , which shows what can be done in one page (both sides).

Summary 97

Summary Writing Competition Sample 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2019

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. Select it well – marketers will tell you that you will be selling your name, more than your products. A sample agreement is available for free download from my website.

IP 93

IP Invest Patents Social Media 93

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

One of our core tasks was “market analysis,&# which consistent of: market sizing, market forecasts, competitive analysis and then instructing customers on which direction to take. I was in the midst of sizing the mobile handset markets in 3 regions: US, Europe and Asia. How is it skewed? I encourage it.

Statistics 415

Statistics Startup Report Research 415

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2013

I’ll even send you a free sample of my own business plan via email, if you drop me a note.

Sample 92

Sample Writing Startup Summary 92

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2013

In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. You won’t succeed with a product that is too expensive for the market. He better be so pleased that he is willing to provide a testimonial for your real marketing campaign.

Product 94

Product Pricing Customer Custom 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2015

There really is no excuse these days, with samples on the Internet, business-plan books in every bookstore, and dozens of apps to automate the process. A great business plan doesn’t have to be a book in length, with extensive financial statements.

Startup 109

Startup Writing Mentor Sample 109

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs. Define the characteristics of the overall industry, market forces, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Investors like $1B markets with double-digit growth rates.

Slides 93

Slides Competition Sample Sales 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2012

I’ll even send you a free sample of my own business plan via email, if you drop me a note.

Sample 96

Sample Writing Summary Startup 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2012

In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. You won’t succeed with a product that is too expensive for the market. He better be so pleased that he is willing to provide a testimonial for your real marketing campaign.

Entrepreneur 99

Entrepreneur Pricing Customer Custom 99

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Modern investors love to first read a two-page summary of your business plan, formatted like a glossy marketing collateral sheet, with text well laid out in columns and sidebars, and a couple of relevant graphics. Take a look at my website for the Sample Executive Summary , which shows what can be done in one page (both sides).

Summary 90

Summary Writing Competition Sample 90

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs. Define the characteristics of the overall industry, market forces, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Investors like $1B markets with double-digit growth rates.

Slides 94

Slides Competition Sample Sales 94

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Marketing is considered an art by many individuals because it requires keen insight in how to approach a product, service, or brand, and how to effectively deliver those things to customers. Overall, in today’s economy, businesses demand marketers think beyond the everyday ad and try to think outside the box for ad campaigns.

Advertising 69

Advertising Training Customer Custom 69

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

We understood the irony of the message as we sampled their sheer, almost-not-there lipgloss, then looked into a mirror decorated with white vinyl letters in the bustling pop-up shop: you look good , our reflection told us. billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal. And who cares?

Startup 280

Startup Netflix Los Angeles Innocal 280

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Many years ago, I enjoyed one of Guy Kawasaki’s first books, “ Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition.” Here is a sampling of ten themes from the book that I think are just as relevant today as they were then: The reality of starting. The reality of marketing.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Sample Guide Ideas 107

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2011

In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. You won’t succeed with a product that is too expensive for the market. He better be so pleased that he is willing to provide a testimonial for your real marketing campaign.

Startup 93

Startup Pricing Customer Custom 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2013

Every investor has his own list, usually based on his own very small sample, or simply his gut feeling. Choose a large market in a growth industry. A large market means at least $500 million in potential sales if the company is asset-light, and $1 billion if it requires plenty of property, plants and equipment.

Startup 102

Startup Study Journal Sample 102

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

Michael Dubin: My background is digital marketing, and a little bit of editorial. After that, I went to a digital marketing for a firm which provided marketing for Sports Illustrated and other big brand advertisers like Gatorade and Nike, driving video views of social video. That's the one we'll mass product.

Dollar Shave Club 210

Dollar Shave Club Startup Pricing Sample 210

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Crowd sample size and makeup not representative of market. Even online, the type of people who may respond to social media requests may bear very little relationship to the intended market. No one contemplates including a business plan, investor presentation, or even the equivalent of an executive summary.

Funding 101

Funding Equity Entrepreneur Invest 101

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2010

I’ll even send you a free sample of my own business plan via email, if you drop me a note.

Startup 91

Startup Funding Sample Writing 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2017

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. Select it well – marketers will tell you that you will be selling your name, more than your products. A sample agreement is available for free download from my website.

Startup 69

Startup Patents IP Social Media 69

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Pricing engine helps publishers ascertain ad inventory pricing by analyzing ad transaction data from the market/exchanges. Data reports include following sample fields: real-time suggested price for specific unit of ad inventory, ad server data, order insertion data, behavioral targeting data, conversion data, etc. Hello, Chair.

Venture Capital 214

Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2012

Every investor has his own list, usually based on his own very small sample, or simply his gut feeling. Choose a large market in a growth industry. A large market means at least $500 million in potential sales if the company is asset-light, and $1 billion if it requires plenty of property, plants and equipment.

Startup 99

Startup Study Journal Sample 99

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2018

Often, beneficial changes will have a short-term cost to achieve market growth or competitive advantage. Strategic decisions need to be based on statistically valid samples of complete and consistent data, relative to the decision at hand. Ask for analysis and feedback based on long-term impact.

Tips 51

Tips Metrics Sample Statistics 51