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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JULY 12, 2010
This is an advantage only until others copy it, so it's not long-term protection against competition. Innovative design and intellectual property are no longer long-term competitive advantages. Next week I'll talk about what are real competitive advantages. The following are not competitive advantages: We have feature X.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2010
You invest low amounts of capital and the company gets to IPO (96-99) or trade sale (05-08) without raising too much capital and certainly not on punishing terms. More money is needed, VCs are harder to come by and when they invest it can be on penalizing terms. But in bad economies many angels get burned.
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Occam's Razor
JULY 12, 2010
In this blog post I want to share four analytics tools that I have been playing with for a while… tools that solve an interesting problem… tools that point to what might be in terms of our near term analytical future… and in almost all cases they don't even know! First Some Context.
Austin Startup
JULY 12, 2010
Even despite well-meaning export-bridges to other applications and “open API’s” (a term that drives me crazy), there are a lot of questions around who owns your customer engagement data. But those interactions cut right to the center of how companies make money, and ransoming the data therein has become almost vogue. It’s not a good thing.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 11, 2010
I’m surprised how few people talk about valuations, term sheet terms, how much to pay recruiters, etc. We know prices of deals, compensation, who’s doing well / poorly, etc. Entrepreneurs need to share more information with each other. A tech lab is a perfect hub for this kind of cross-company fertilization.
Steve Blank
JULY 15, 2010
You need a plan for partnership and long term funding from day one. This decade has been a Darwinian filter – only the very best companies will survive as standalone companies. If you’re starting a company in other, capital intensive industries, it’s no longer just about having great technology. We live in interesting times.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 15, 2010
As with much social science research, there’s a big gap between the core research, the conclusions, and long term behavioral change, but as Lucy Sanders (the CEO of NCWIT) is fond of saying, we are five years into a 20 year shift.
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