ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

He is heading straight into an intensely competitive market without adequate differentiation or competitive positioning. MyTab Next, Heddi Cundle from San Francisco, California, discussed MyTab , an online gift-registry of sorts to raise money for travel. Anupam has serious segmentation issues. He currently has a 1999 strategy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

If you missed these when they went out live, we encourage you to watch them now , as they lay a strong foundation for The Lean Startup Conference , December 9 -11 in San Francisco—less than two weeks from today. It''s humanly impossible.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

What I find exciting about Freshdesk is that they may be able to do the same thing in customer support that Zoho did in CRM: a drastic downshifting of the price-point of a full-functionality, differentiated, cutting edge customer support solution.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business of Software is a conference organized by Neil Davidson and Joel Spolsky , and was held this year in San Francisco. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

One of the best ways for a small business to differentiate itself from the competition is to build a strong customer-first culture. Marie lives in the San Francisco Bay area and enjoys hiking and traveling with her husband, teen, and tween. So what’s a smart small business owner to do?

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

A new pricing or packaging model does not by itself represent a meaningful core differentiation, and the rising abundance of “subscription” or “flash sales” companies heightened our concern with regard to barriers to entry. Location: San Francisco. Fundamentally, we share the common concern that many of the new “Ecommerce 2.0”

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups. Truth: There’s nothing wrong with raising venture capital.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2012

Whether that means content people can find on the Internet before they meet you in person, what you have with you when you meet people, or the ways they can keep up with you after a meeting, standing out means that you consistently differentiate yourself in an attractive way by your self-presentation, your work, and your follow-through.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

This has allowed us to deliver a truly differentiated product for the same price consumers would otherwise spend on craft beer at a store. We aim to become the go-to custom beverage provider for every brand, company, event, bar, restaurant, and hotel.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

Some want to make sure it doesn’t end up looking like San Francisco. Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy told me that was the people of Austin that differentiated us from the other cities. A culture of active participation People who move to Austin immediately want to get involved and help make it better. Why did Austin win out?

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. I spent half my time in Dubai and half in San Francisco. Lloyed Lobo (26:52): Oh, cool. Have a good one.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The Switchboard Platform makes these experiences available to third party developers looking to engage users and differentiate their offerings. We’re defining a new category so the product is highly differentiated. But we are building our presence in New York, San Francisco, and building partnerships in international cities as well.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

We have evolved into an educational organization, holding investor education events in New Jersey , NY, Florida, Connecticut, Toronto, and San Francisco, as well as many webinars. At Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of NY , we’ve seen enormous appetite for angel education among high net worths and family offices.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

What differentiates this model from "free serves paid" is that the free users dont need to consciously do anything special to be valuable. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Here the key is for your free customers to get value from the site that is greater than the costs they perceive by the fact that youre selling access to them.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

I suggested LinkedIn, oDesk, and eLance with the caveat that the field is extremely competitive and crowded and differentiation would be tough to achieve. She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. Happy Grasshopper. and a systematic affiliate marketing program. Taariq is also a 1M/1M premium member.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

And it’s easy to run circles around them as our product differentiation shows. They are the classic case of the Innovator’s Dilemma because they fundamentally can’t innovate on their product and can’t lower costs or their business craters. They have high-priced property and zero innovation. What Comes Next?

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

Undifferentiated products are hard to generate excitement and traction around in the highly crowded web, and I suggested they look at DeNovo which sells highly differentiated, limited edition jewelry as a good example of what good merchandising looks like.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 17, 2015

That’s still true in less developed parts of the world, but in San Francisco and increasingly in London there are multiple sources of venture capital working very hard to find good investments and entrepreneurs sitting on quality opportunities have lots of options.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

But plenty of other product categories depend on social factors: status purchases, beauty products, fashion products, and (at least here in San Francisco) food and produce. Identity value - This is the strongest source of value of all, and its a little tricky to differentiate from the preceding two sources. Bring your questions.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Our business customers can generate more revenue, increase engagement in their apps, and differentiate their product offering by integrating with our innovative video technology. Sacramento has a thriving startup ecosystem with the San Francisco Bay Area just an hour and half by car or train to reach investors and partners.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Vice President of Product Development and Content Strategy at SFGate and the San Francisco Chronicle John Miller offered up some advice. Steps are being taken to help differentiate between the good, bad, and ugly native ads. Advertisers, in turn, should avoid alienating readers with deceptive content.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Excellent analysis of "evolution vs. re-volution" and differentiation of team roles. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Cheers, Batu December 7, 2009 7:50 PM ajay mathur said. Great post Eric. Just bumped into it through Lincoln Murphy's post. Thank you so much for this insight. Bring your questions.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

. “It’s a weird feeling as a serial entrepreneur when you realize you shouldn’t be serial anymore,” he said in an interview in San Francisco a few weeks ago. Hearst was 24 when he took over the San Francisco Examiner, Hefner was 27 when he started Playboy. “This one is just so much fun.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

This success was aided by the fact that it did just one thing extremely well – its lack of extra features emphasized its differentiation. This success was aided by the fact that it did just one thing extremely well – its lack of extra features emphasized its differentiation. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

We have certain advantages that we are confident will differentiate us, but these may not be apparent if we just released as soon as the basic functionality of our app was ready. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Recording is now available as a YouTube video: [link] May 4, 2009 6:26 PM Major_Grooves said. Bring your questions.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Just like you’d go to the Mission in San Francisco to find a hipster, you need to identify where these people are hanging out both online and offline. There will be keynote speakers as well as skills workshops covering marketing/differentiation, scaling for growth, mentoring, and negotiations/inter-personal leadership skills.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

“But at this point we’re so much larger than some of the companies that are going after the same space that it’s really not a challenge for us to differentiate ourselves.”. I remember in 1994 I was strolling down a street in San Francisco with Jim Breyer of Accel and we were both young guys then.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Discover whats in customers heads, and tackle problems where design is a differentiator. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Overall, here are the lessons I take from (the imaginary) Steve Jobs: Hold your team to high standards, dont settle for products that dont meet the vision, iterate, iterate, iterate. Bring your questions.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It’s not just big in Dallas but in San Diego, Phoenix and Sacramento but also Boston, Chicago, Washington and of course San Francisco. Many, many markets use storage and in totally different use-cases than you’d imagine. How valuable are these legacy businesses? But can you really tell me MakeSpace is a tech company?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Now, Uber is an international service, but back then, it was just a small San-Francisco based startup. Here are some other important aspects that’ll help you differentiate between the two. Then, an app appeared, but its interface was far from what we know today. Another difference was the target audience.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

And so there may come a time when chat bots really help a small business save time and talking to customers and all these kinds of things but I think for right now it’s a little bit early to jump in and start experimenting with that stuff, especially since it kind of to some extent eats away at your core differentiator.

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Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2018

And I think there can many more schools that can be established with a differentiated approach to drive the cost of education down for young people. In the San Francisco Bay Area, we have a massive problem with housing. They rank up there with the Ivy Leagues et al. We don’t have enough housing supply.

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Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2018

And I think there can many more schools that can be established with a differentiated approach to drive the cost of education down for young people. In the San Francisco Bay Area, we have a massive problem with housing. They rank up there with the Ivy Leagues et al. We don’t have enough housing supply.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). 2) Design ethic vs engineers - Over the course of the last 5-10 years, many software-based startups are being built on competitive advantages of design and business model rather than technical differentiation.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

OH in South Park, San Francisco (or on Zoom from Big Sky, Montana): “OMG, crazy – that firm just paid 100x revenue to invest in [insert hot startup here] – what could they be thinking?”

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

And so that would be where I would draw those differentiations. They’ve created maybe one of the most valuable events in the world called DreamForce, 175,000 people in San Francisco every year. So it’s like saying TV marketing or newspaper marketing when I say social media marketing or mobile marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

We’ve had billion dollar exists in Chicago, Baltimore, London, San Francisco and Los Angeles an well as enormous winners also in New York and Las Vegas. We believe this isn’t just a market statement — it is where we will drive huge and differentiated returns. Boston, Finland and Paris).

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