Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. A target market is the group of customers that the startup plans to attract through marketing and sales their product or service. Sales/Marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2014

A November 2014 report by Kiplinger asserts that economic momentum is back on track. Many cited a greater focus on cost cutting and efficiency as the number two step to achieving growth, with increasing sales still number one. Recent drops in gas prices are now extending to diesel and even home heating oil.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 19, 2016

And once in a while, a defender uses his or her face, inadvertently, to block a ball spiked over the net. The CRISPR news this week doesn’t need a metaphor; the drama that MIT Technology Review reported can stand alone. STAT found the figures in Editas’s quarterly earnings report. Talk about sacrifice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2018

Test your pricing and packaging options, and tune them regularly. Use Net Promoter Score (NPS) to help you turn visitors into raving fans. In non-conversion exit surveys, visitors often report that they need to think about it and come back later. Compensate for sales funnel elements outside of your control.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2016

Mylan bumped up the price of the EpiPen 400 percent, presidential nominee Hillary Clinton responded with a tirade against drug price hikes, and—much like when Clinton railed against drug pricing last year—biotech indexes promptly plummeted more than 3 percent. It was the tweet heard around the biotech world, again.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

LP’s who invest in funds are typically university endowments, public & private pension funds, insurance companies, large corporations and very high net worth individuals called “family offices.&# To give you an indication of how bad, for example, university endowments are suffering check out this chart.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

In his premier film appearance in the blaxploitation send-up “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka,” Chris Rock inadvertently addresses a key pricing challenge faced by most entrepreneurs. Watch this 93-second clip and see if you can identify the pricing pitfall addressed in this humorous snippet. Price = Value. How Much For A Rib?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Nick Desai: FitOrbit delivers a proven solution for fitness and weight loss over the Internet, for the first time, at a price people can afford. If you're at the point that you are tracking your fitness and calories, self reporting and self tracking that every day, that's fantastic. We've also built a variety of pricing options.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. Today they announced that they acquired a large competitor in their space for what is reported to be a $100 million transaction.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

If youre buying a luxury home or just like looking at them, check out this live chat from reporter Lauren Schuker Blum and WSJ.com real estate editor Matthew Strozier. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip. Derek Wooden.

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