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The Small Business Administration is a government organization charged with stimulating small business activity in the United States.
Tech-lite companies often rely on data to create value and barriers as they scale. Being able to structurally think about what data your company is and is not leveraging may enable you to deliver more value and create additional barriers.
There are some barriers that arguably don’t change in their ability to deter competition as the relative scale of competitors changes.
While barriers that erode as your competitors scale usually relate to the process of a company entering a market, there is a category of barriers that can play an important role in determining the relative success of competitors after they.
I’m defining a deterrent as a significant initial investment of capital or time that can discourage new entrants.
Image Provided by Shutterstock I have written about the role of barriers in scaling IT companies. I think it’s worthwhile to explore the different types of barriers that you might have or look to create in your business.
The NY venture ecosystem continues to grow stronger. Owen Davis and NYCSeed recently led the charge in creating a new venture accelerator program called SeedStart.
One of DFJ Gotham’s portfolio companies Drop.io (run by my friend Sam Lessin) just launched Presslift, another service that leverages their core technology platform.
We all live in silos. Most of us only interact in the relatively small semi-isolated circles in which we have landed.
VCs often require that portfolio companies maintain a certain amount of unallocated options (an option pool) for future distribution to existing or new hires.