To all the people who whined that Twiistup’s startup competition was unfair, here’s my answer: All startup competitions are biased. I’ll teach you what I learned so you can use it to win other startup competitions. It’s easy to say there’s a little unfairness in these You’re right. Now stop whining and learn to win.

Competitiveness - One attribute that I believe most VCs look for in entrepreneurs is competitiveness.  I If you stumble on to a really good idea believe me it will get competitive really quickly.  It know that people who aren’t competitive always find competitive people slightly distasteful.  They This is part of my series on  what makes an entrepreneur successful .  I originally posted it on  VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs.

Los Angeles-based Equipois , which develops ergonomic arm technology, was the winner of a fast pitch competition hosted by the Monte Jade Science & Technology Association last week at Caltech. Tags: equipois venture capital fast pitch competitio Equipois, which is headed by Eric Golden , has developed technology to make lifting and manipulating heavy loads and tooling effortless. The technology is based on the technology behind Hollywood's Steadicam.

The X Prize Foundation, the Santa Monica nonprofit focused on encouraging innovation through prize-based competitions, has signed on a sponsor for a new prize focused on improving the nation's health care system. and the WellPoint Foundation to develop a $10M or more competition to to generate new ways to address the nation's serious health care system challenges. The group--which was behind the Ansari X Prize, which resulted in the first commercial space launch vehicle--said that it is in a collaboration with Wellpoint, Inc., The as-of-yet named competition will look towards health

but I digress. Are we positioning our workforce to be aligned with our future competitive growth industries? Tags: competitiveness talen Was at a great program last week about the "War for Talent" ... the same day the March unemployment figures came out and the US lost about 80,000 jobs in March, to run the total job loses this year to 230,000 and the unemployment to go to 5.1%.

The company said the United States District Court for the Southern District of California has granted the firm's motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit from Christopher Lorenzo, which had claimed antitrust violations and unfair competition by the company. According to Qualcomm, the judge found that the allegations in the compliant did not give Lorenzo any right to compensation from the firm under California's unfair competition law. San Diego-based Qualcomm said this morning that the firm has been granted a motion to dismiss a consumer, class action lawsuit against the firm.

Monday, August 17, 2009 -- CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ASCENT is a statewide business competition for entrepreneurial growth companies produced by the Golden Capital Network and officially endorsed by the State of California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. See [link] (mor

Thursday, March 12, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Competitive Technical Intelligence. Get the accurate and timely intelligence your firm needs to anticipate technical trends and assess competitor actions. See [link] ... mor

Taking a page from the X Prize Foundation, NASA has launched its own prize competition which challenges companies to create aircraft that can average at least 100 mph on a 200-mile flight, while getting greater than 200 passenger miles-per-gallon. The X Prize Foundation is running its own, fuel efficient vehicle competition--but for automobiles, through the Progressive Automotive X Prize. NASA said it would award $1.5M to the best performance, and $150,000 to the best aircraft fueled by bio-fuel.

However, Alex Quilici, the firm's CEO, told socalTECH that he actually sees something good from the competition. "Our Quilici did say that the move is competition to the firm, saying "Anyone in the voice mail space is some competition to us," but he was upbeat about the attention now being given to the area. "The Irvine-based startup YouMail has just gotten a new competitor: search engine giant Google, which launched a significantly comparable service to YouMail's voice mail services. YouMail offers a voice mail service which allows cell phone users to preview their voicemail