ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? and also to local advertisements.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Remedy: Amazon distinguishes between non-reversible decisions with substantial sunk costs (like e.g. investing in a new warehouse in Amazon’s case), and reversible decisions like experimenting with a new offer. The rules to compete in the digital age are completely different. The former requires slow and careful decision making.

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David Teten

AUGUST 8, 2011

Fred is not a fan and argues that evaluating and aiding early-stage companies is not a core competency of government organizations. California. o Southern California Innovation Project. o California Conservation Innovation Grant Program. We find it hard to disagree with Fred’s point of view. o New York Grant Watch.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In the end, smaller payments are still better than non-payment. Customers can get overwhelmed by complicated payment procedures, so non-payment may be a sign that you need to streamline your operations. There are many collection agencies that you can turn to, but a state collection agency is more reliable and competent.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Thorn, author of “ U-wun-ge-lay-ma “ I recently ran a marathon in Death Valley, California. As I ran, I pondered over two very critical leadership requisites, namely; professional competencies and personal behaviors. Competencies. Many people think that it is enough just to compete. by Dr. Andrew L.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2013

To more strongly support startups who want to give top priority to socially conscious solutions, eleven states, including New York and California, have passed legislation allowing incorporation as a Benefit Corporation (B-Corp). Adopt the B-Corp as a new conscious business model. Other states are close behind in this effort.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Only California and New York have a few more, and maybe not for long. I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. What’s bringing them here?

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Up and Running

APRIL 13, 2016

We talked with two dispensary owners from pioneering states: Mitch Woolhiser, owner of Northern Lights Cannabis Company in Denver, Colorado, and Lincoln Fish, CEO of OutCo Labs, which manages the dispensary Outliers Collective in San Diego, California. If you’re in California, he also recommends reading Proposition 215 and Proposition 420.

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thenextweb.com

OCTOBER 17, 2011

4 Reach out to complimentary (not competing) startups. Paring with similar, but non-competing companies makes cross promotion easy and mutually beneficial. In California? Getting tons of irrelevant signups wastes everybody’s time, so determine your audience and attack it head on. (By If not, try and organize one!

Social Media 67

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Remedy: Amazon distinguishes between non-reversible decisions with substantial sunk costs (like e.g. investing in a new warehouse in Amazon’s case), and reversible decisions like experimenting with a new offer. The rules to compete in the digital age are completely different. The former requires slow and careful decision making.

Non-Compete 120

Non-Compete Agile Business Model San Francisco 120

Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Among the most important acts of the California legislature and courts was to provide for a strong right-to-work culture in the state, including that employers couldn’t enforce non-compete clauses and non-solicitation agreements, other than in limited circumstances.

Silicon Valley 36

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 26, 2013

This past week, I had the pleasure and honor to present to John Morris'' Woodland Hills, California Vistage Group. For those that don''t know it, Vistage is one of the world''s largest CEO and business owner organizations, with more than 17,000 members in 15 countries.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

As she was completing her final exam, loud noises from across the campus competed for her attention. A broke, non-English speaking, uneducated immigrant here on our land. It was late autumn of 1978. And since she didn’t finish her exams, she also had no degree.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Readers can anticipate my next point in continuing the analogy: It makes no more sense for a non-lawyer to prepare fundamental legal, governance, equity and intellectual property documents than it would for a patient to self-diagnose and begin taking prescription-strength antibiotics or other medications. Offer letters for employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I love working with Aussies because their outlook on life seems very similar to what I grew up with in California. Pretty laid back and non-hierarchic. When I worked in London there were a ton of Aussies. I also loved learning all of their sayings. My favorite was when I guy told me to beware of Crocodile Salesmen.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Because he cant compete with Google on salary, Citron says, he offers job candidates more responsibility — letting prospective engineers know theyll get to work on bigger projects. He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. Weve reached out to the schools."

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

It wasn’t a lack of competence or skill in her job; it was just that as far as she was concerned, her job had no connection to the rest of marketing, our customers or our ultimate success as a company. I also wanted to know who our existing customers thought we competed with. What did they think we stood for? If so, where?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

The quintessential California couple, they stood out in our crowd as the engineer (in his late 20′s, respected by his peers and the customer) had hair down to his shoulders, sharply contrasting with the military crewcuts of the customers and most of the other contractors. I’m not buying it… literally.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

So, that was the first moment that we said, "This looks like it could be a thing in California." We weren't fully thinking about California or the country at that point. By this point, we had moved out to Northern California. By this point, we moved to California out here. We're in Santa Clara County. It was a friend.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

Cuatro: You want to earn a bonus for yourself so you want the page to make money (e-commerce sites) or add economic value (non-ecommerce websites) for your company/website. When I work with b2b websites I spend a lot of time in the AdWords Keywords Tool, Insights for Search, Compete etc analyzing keywords and search behavior in my category.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The first and primary role of a government is to provide basic public goods competently. You can see preliminary results of this value creation study below. - Encouraging non-US companies to set up operations in the US. To the extent that the government fails to do that, it will retard job creation.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Put likable, competent and passionate people on the front line. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive. New York, California different toilet, same s#@t. This doesn’t make sense. If network B has 20 users than it’s value is 400 (20*20).

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

This is a company that when they were founded, it wasn’t just that they were competing against other companies, but they were competing against industries and regulations and governments that wanted to essentially regulate them out of existence. They had to fight for the right to compete. We had to take hardcore action.

Iran 39

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

But it could also be a non-financial challenge, like being a social media company and facing attacks from multiple points of the political spectrum. David Sze was my most effective and helpful and competent board member at LinkedIn. Maybe it’s an economic challenge. What were the strengths and weaknesses of the board member?

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

I’ve made a few grammatical and non-substantive updates for clarity. It’s my hope that some of it can be useful to others, specifically other under-represented founders or non-traditional markets. (I And, while working to build the business we want, a competitor in California secured resources to far outpace us. Of course I do.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Google is not descriptive of the company’s search core competency nor was it particularly easy to pronounce, spell or remember when the site was initially launched. Amazon – While arguably better than the company’s initial name, “Cadabra.com”, “Amazon” does not convey the company’s initial core competency of online book sales.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Competing with such companies is pure pleasure – just harp on their mis-understandings of the market. Non-linearity is approaching. Non-linearity is the constant. Non-linearity is the change that you must be ready for. There are no verticals, there are industries and markets.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

I actually think if more people did those company audits, had a really good lawyer as a partner in their business, that there’d be less non-paying clients and less fearful calls, so I think it’s really good to sit down. Non-paying clients is a big one. Jamie Lieberman: Absolutely. Jamie Lieberman: Yeah, sure.

Small Business 87

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Gone are the days of advertising to everyone in San Francisco, California. Only non-branded keywords with one or more clicks are included in the data. Hell, Facebook knows whether you vote liberal or conservative and whether or not you attend church on Sundays. As a result, targeting options are becoming more and more advanced.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

To me, an organization that hits on all these tiny cylinders at once needs to be led by a competent operator. This “Math” slogan perpetuates a racial stereotype that he never seemed to grasp before Dr. Christina Greer called him out on the FAQ podcast about it—one that sets teacher expectations of non-Asian students lower.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

I’ll put it in simple terms for non salespeople. But you can’t escape the fact that we’re a large fish in an attractive non-Silicon-Valley market and pretending otherwise would be naïve. And we’re not trying to compete directly with that. We even do some international deals in London or Finland.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be Howie at Sky Pulse Media My biggest question is this any different than non-web logo design. a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

You have to be passionate about your cause and be competent at it. I am a Northern California person, I am green, I buy everything in An Inconvenient Truth ! :). PS: Couple other (non Google, but leadership) related posts: Three “spire’s” of Great Leadership. You want to get @#$& done? That's a good feeling. #

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

I loved to compete against these companies. Martin , on May 4, 2009 at 4:00 pm Said: Naive question: How do you handle the situation when Sales is happier selling an existing product that has a smaller but already established market than a new product with a non-existent but potentially much larger market?

Silicon Valley 126

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Truth be told, we've got defense contractors here just like California does too. I'm a bit late, and this one might be controversial to some, but long-duration non-competes hurt the development of startups by adding friction to the entrepreneurial economy.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2011

Every Analysis Ninja I know (not implementers, not data providers, not excel cross data store integrators – all good jobs) is very, very good at Multiplicity (answering a complex set of digital business questions using the best – often non-clickstream source). Look at non-profit entities (who have paid jobs). That is it.

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