A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Instead, let’s separate the upside and downside of “building feature X,” and clarify the outcome of those two aspects: UPSIDE: Unique position in the market, leading to new deals won through differentiation. If we do feature X, we earn more deals (through differentiation).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. Processes must be in place to clearly define standards, differentiate performance, link to consequences, provide rewards for accountability, and provide regular follow-up. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. Products requiring changes to government regulations.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Our conventional mapping of “who we are” relies on a family name and government ID, but these are quite arbitrary identifiers that pre-date the Internet. Their biggest differentiators are 1) censorship resistance and 2) (theoretically) lower costs. Just as we as beings are in constant flux, now our selective identities can be as well.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

When co-founders Hannu Rajaniemi and Nikolai Eroshenko realized their work was applicable to a coronavirus vaccine, too, they changed direction immediately. Hannu has called for mass coordination between the government and the private sector to get to a vaccine faster, not a few months faster but dramatically faster.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. 18:05] How does the Founder Space operate? [20:21] He's the CEO of founders space.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2010

So if you’re the founder of a startup, you may want to consider who you take money from. Is Your VC Founder Friendly? How many of their founders are still with their company? How many of their founders are still with their company? Will they tailor your vesting to your contribution as a founder?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2020

by Art Saxby, CEO, Founder and Principal of Chief Outsiders. Shelve the hype on past successes and focus on creating new and differentiated offerings. k environments, compliance with social distancing rules and government mandates for behavior. Watch Operations, Plan Scenarios. Heed Practical, Specific Advice.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2020

In an interview with Forbes addressing why company founders should learn economics, Associate Professor of Economics and author Anthony J. The economy drives value in the minds of consumers; businesses need to understand value perception if they want to cash in on a consumer’s willingness to pay more for perceived value.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

by Patricia Reed, mentor at Female Founders. Their efforts through workforce councils, resource groups and communities, (which SalesForce calls its “Ohanas”), or families proactively drive the governance of company culture. She is also a mentor at Female Founders. . Embedding a diversity.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2013

As privacy gets eroded through government activity we can expect a lot more anonymous forums to emerge as powerful web platforms. Now the only differentiator is size preference and UX. . It seems the real money in technology stocks is made when the founders exit, not when investors buy it. Phablet anyone?

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

This next level will also require that you work with government regulators. The government will not allow you to conduct your business without a license. The content on your site needs to be unique to differentiate it from your competitors. The second step involves obtaining a license to operate. Are you the Next Casino Mogul?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

One observation that often goes unnoticed is that the government audit agencies – GAO, DoDIG – are also part of the problem, as they work hard in assuring compliance with bad strategy. There’s something wrong when the cost of entry of Palantir , SpaceX and Anduril as new DOD contractors required billionaire founders.) Slides 35-37.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

It’s also true that I’m mostly founder driven, where the founding team & my personal relationship with them leads to a strong mutual working relationship. Often major customers defect en masse to the new entrant as they realize that the huge price premium is not justified by the product differentials. Does that sound dumb?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Hoffman should know, as an icon in the Silicon Valley, having educated and trained hundreds of startup founders as the CEO of “ Founders Space ,” designated by Inc.com as one of the top ten incubators and accelerators in the world. Be the first to disrupt an existing market space. Being first is always important.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Ecosystem Differentiation. Did you know founders in Silicon Valley work longer hours than founders anywhere else? Here’s some other eye-opening info from the report, highlighted by Startup Genome founder Bjoern Lasse Herrmann. Trendsetting Tendencies. See the end of the story for the complete list.)

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Political science, government service, and law — Yale has the #1 rated law school in the US and a long history of alumni serving in government. For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g., Founder community.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

As a founder cognizant of finding revenue anywhere you can, you are not likely to turn away today’s dollars for a conceptual future enterprise valuation. Now it’s cost + markup + 14 layers of intermediaries who all get a cut = price paid by insurance or the government. Price is no longer cost + markup = customer price.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

This is a philosophy that governs my daily life as well as my entrepreneurial activities. Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said. Very useful perspective - as a first-time CEO managing a small startup, these ideas are timely and thought-provoking. Less is more.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A fortnight ago, Boris interviewed Reed Hastings on his business lessons and experience, but now I’m shaking it up with a look at a 26-year-old founder who is disrupting the mobile and social networking spaces: Kik CEO and founder Ted Livingston. The Canadian government matched the investment, and the 15-year plan kicked off.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

This “gain” ($34B last year alone) is a result of a direct wealth-transfer to these individuals FROM the previous owners of the company — founders, executives, employees, and venture investors. Is it disrespectful to imply that the founders, executives, VC-backers, and the boards of these companies are gullible or naive?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

One observation that often goes unnoticed is that the government audit agencies – GAO, DoDIG – are also part of the problem, as they work hard in assuring compliance with bad strategy. There’s something wrong when the cost of entry of Palantir , SpaceX and Anduril as new DOD contractors required billionaire founders.) Slides 35-37.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Kent, a veteran programmer, a founder of the Agile method and the creator of Extreme Programming, came armed with anecdotes and lessons from his own experience, as well as a few questions for Eric. Eric’s chat with Kent Beck was among our most entertaining webcasts ( video ; iTunes ; SoundCloud ). It''s humanly impossible.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. Role models” haven’t made it quite as far the heroes, but as practising entrepreneurs they are fully up-to-date with the on-the-ground realities of fundraising, hiring, and interfacing with government. Some founders stay at hostels. Fundraising isn’t easy.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

The key take-away is that product differentiation is how you make money, and neutralization (keeping up with your competition) is how you stay in the game. You have to focus on both neutralization and differentiation, but there is a no-man’s land “gap&# in between them where your effort is totally wasted.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

That is why I invited the Founder & CEO, Jonah Peretti , to come talk at the 2017 Upfront Summit and make the case himself. Generally the rights of citizens are protected by The Constitution and by the government.” “I He sees the same situation playing out today in online media. This is an idea that interests me a great deal.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

But add the entrepreneurial perks available in the many free zones dotted around the country, set up by the UAE government to entice foreign investment, and the reasons are further multiplied. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had both, according to the startup blog Compass. However, he was not the first to build a social network.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Sir Martin Sorrel , the founder of WPP (the worlds largest media organization), recently said he went to Tech Punta in Montevideo instead of the CES in Las Vegas. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football. The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2013

She’s the founder and Creative Director at Xanadu, a mobile strategy and design consultancy helping to guide app developers to success in a rapidly-changing, often chaotic mobile ecosystem. There are two questions that I recommend startups use to differentiate between being liked versus being loved. Mariya Yao is one such speaker.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Kathy : … The law at the time said the government (not the university) owned these patents. In the 20th century) the U.S. Is that correct?

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Austin Startup

JULY 12, 2010

Andy Meadows is the founder and CEO of Bearhug , an Austin-based customer engagement platform launching today. You don’t want to end up beholden to a third party for fundamental insights into your business, and you don’t want that same third party governing your interactions with your own users. Customer Care Today.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

He is the founder of the Value Builder System , a company that helps business owners improve the value of their company, and he’s also the author of the bestselling book, Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You. But a lot more of them have the second point of differentiation, which is better marketing, right?

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2015

In 2010, the Startup America Partnership finally got the US government to separate the notion of small businesses with high growth businesses. I’ve always loved the word founder to describe the person the word entrepreneur refers to. I think I’m going back to founder. We’ll see if it lasts.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2022

Other aspects of organizational governance. To make preferred shares more marketable, different companies issuing the shares include several characteristics that differentiate them from common stock. Equity for Co-founders. Founders can compensate them in either equity or salary as per their preference.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

We have companies that became valuable through founders that sacrificed for years and through hard work – and partly through luck – achieved great things. I spoke with a guy who is doing deals all over the world and told me he is differentiating from other capital by his firm’s “technical skills.”

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

And, depending on the business you start, there may also be various government incentives. Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software suggests asking yourself the following questions: Will your customers ever see your space? Gather information from government sites like the U.S. As the saying goes, you can’t please everyone!

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 9, 2012

The cheerleading stops, venture funding never materializes and the founders go back to writing code for a living. Take a tour of the campus and you’ll see representatives from corporations, universities, governments and the investment community. That really differentiates us from any other accelerator or incubator out there.”.

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