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6 Ways To Win By Creative Partnering With Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, I once worked for a small software company selling a sophisticated enterprise workflow solution. It’s very unusual for two competitors to have exactly the same strengths – in development, marketing, distribution, or customer support. Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution.

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How A New Software Could Change The Travel Industry Forever 

YoungUpstarts

Payment software and gateways are usually very expensive and complex to use. With a new payment software that is designed specifically for these smaller companies, they get a chance to compete online with the mega travel companies. The software is free to install and only charges 1% of every booking made.

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The Shift from FOMO to FOLD in Early Stage Investing

View from Seed

But the risk to founders is that these investors may not be very committed partners and might quickly disengage if things go sideways. The public markets have clearly rewarded traditional, software based businesses over different business models, and that effect was starting to work its way through the earlier stage ecosystem.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Next we teach Distribution Channels (how are you going to sell the product) and Customer Relationships (how do you Get/Keep/Grow customers) and Revenue Streams (what’s the Revenue Model strategy and pricing tactics.) Finally we move to the left side of the canvas to teach the supporting elements of Resources, Partners, Activities and Costs.

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Intel’s Distribution for Apache Hadoop Software To Help Process Big Data

YoungUpstarts

. “People and machines are producing valuable information that could enrich our lives in so many ways, from pinpoint accuracy in predicting severe weather to developing customized treatments for terminal diseases, says Boyd Davis, vice president and general manager of Intel ‘s Datacenter Software Division.

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How Remote Startups are Changing the Game for Everyone

ReadWriteStart

To be fair, many businesses had distributed teams even before COVID-19 blindsided us. They need to use software for team communication, project management, training, and reporting. In distributed teams, employee engagement is critical. Staying connected with partners, teams, and clients is one of them. Easier scaling.

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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. Or if you’re building consumer electronics the key activities might be: low cost hardware design, high volume manufacturing, user interface design, consumer branding and retail distribution.

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