Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Or second time founders focus on lucrative verticals that pay more per eyeball or focus on ad formats that pay more (such as email newsletter sponsorships). This could mean partnering exclusively with someone who makes products offline (and who is not tech savvy to compete online with you). don’t think about at all.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 8, 2020

The most effective way to create distance from your competition is to set your sights on a new competitor — someone who operates in a completely different industry from your own. I lead a small marketing agency and have shared examples from our industry, but these exercises can work for any business or vertical.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Amanda Brinkman: It’s really hard for these small businesses to compete. And you know, what’s so special about small businesses is that they often say to us, “How do I compete with online pressure? I can’t compete with those online prices or their distribution.”

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> Illegal for them to operate trucks. Unfortunately I can only talk about the stuff related to the idea itself.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Or from your survey vendors such as the ACSI or the iPSI benchmarks for Customer Satisfaction for various companies / industry verticals. There were only two companies essentially competing and this was the Category key term. Find a willing partner, inside your direct responsibility or outside. Here is a example.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I feel like the bar has been raised so much in the last five years in the start up community and I’ve been busy working for a distinctly non-start up company. The thing we’re sort of competing with is sort of the immediate things, and the awareness. The only way to really get back into it is to just do it.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

They took a host of seemingly fragmented industry changes—customers demanding more from their vendors, customer relationships lasting years instead of days, competing businesses appearing virtually every day—and found the common thread that tied them together: more companies and customers were switching to subscriptions.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

That’s becoming increasingly common for non prime-focused products like Cash App or Stash. These products encourage all individuals to participate in and have a point of view on investing, rather than operating under the assumption that it’s strictly for the wealthy. But most of all, it will benefit us as consumers.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Microsoft started down this path when they were the only game in town, explicitly to maintain their monopoly by making it as hard as possible to either port Windows apps to non-Windows platforms, or to even conceive of how to do it in the first place. Basically, the lesson in this guys argument is entirely non-technical. Get a grip.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one. Also, similar start ups will have time to copy you, reorganize, and compete. was the worst ever.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

Jonathan Lai, General Partner, A16Z Gaming fund. I love landscapes as they help organise the categories needed to define the vertical. We’re excited to partner with early stage founders who see the future in the same way, and are working on the technologies that will help bring this vision forward.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

Consumers have a limited number of hours in the day so the distributors compete for share of mind and while they can sign up for multiple services there are some natural limitations, which causes a battle for the share of wallet. And you can now negotiate for fees for cable and satellite operators to carry your channels. And so forth.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. Bill Gurley : I’ll give you a non-healthcare version real quick.

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