SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

My experiments in lean pricing - Venture Hacks , February 16, 2010 Ash Maurya, a lean entrepreneur who runs a bootstrapped startup called CloudFire, discusses pricing issues for first versions (Minimum Viable Product – MVP). This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. Good stuff from Jason.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Amid the hue and cry over the Mylan EpiPen pricing debacle , Hillary Clinton unveiled her “ Plan to Respond to Unjustified Price Hikes for Long-Available Drugs. ” Clinton’s plan calls for “dedicated oversight to protect consumers.” That dependence on price increases won’t change any time soon.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The big price increase : 5 out of 5 stars. Some customer segments value the DVD business and these may be more price sensitive. They might be willing to pay higher prices (and perhaps not an “all you can eat” price but a “pay as you go” price per film). A blog post! No, probably not.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity. Fixed price bidding is the only effective outsourcing model.” Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming. Be flexible.

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Xconomy

MAY 10, 2019

The field has gotten so competitive that multiple products are on the market for some diseases. An April report from Evaluate Pharma predicted sales of orphan drugs to rise 12 percent a year between now and 2024, when they will account for an estimated 20 percent of worldwide prescription drug sales.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2010

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the auto pricing data firm headed by Scott Painter, announced Friday that it is looking to measure the ratings of the "hottest" vehicles from its data, with a new web service called TrueBuzz. Tags: truecar vehicle pricing data prediction software automobile. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Watching the orders come in, or the product moving off the shelf, is the feedback you have been looking for. You have figured out how to undercut your competitor’s price, and still hold your margin. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Start even before the product is ready.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

A recent Wall Street Journal article that raised the possibility of Biogen as the target of another huge pharma buyout cited the lack of productivity as a major driver of M&A in the pharmaceutical industry. The industry can only go so far with growth through hyper-inflated pricing and mega-M&As.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 6, 2016

is rolling out its first commercial product—a “brain-enabled” commercial floor scrubber that is part mini-Zamboni and part Roomba. But as a pragmatic industrial product, Brain Corp. two years ago as vice president of marketing and product development. Like many startups, Brain Corp. But now Brain Corp. While Brain Corp.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2020

million more shares than anticipated and pricing at the high end of its planned range. The stock price closed at $21.80, up 28 percent. The company joins the public markets with four product candidates in its pipeline, all topical non-steroidal treatments being developed for seven dermatological indications.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Yet I still hear stories of companies being well down the road on products and collateral with a given name, only to find out that everything has to be changed because of a domain name conflict or availability problem. Finalizing the web site validates your product plan and sales strategy. Websites do take time to get done right.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2014

Demand Media''s product is used by brands, publishers, and agencies to create content and drive visitors to their websites. Pricing details on Demand Media''s expanded offerings were not announced. According to Demand Media, the expansion includes new content formats and enhanced "publishing and distribution strategies." READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Santa Monica-based Near Networks , a new startup, said today that it has launched a production studio aimed at the online video channel. According to Near Networks, it will help connect local businesses with filmmakers, to create YouTube videos, embed video channels on their website or blogs, and to share their videos via social networks.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

La Jolla Pharmaceutical is turning its focus to its lone FDA-approved product and another one in the pipeline after an experimental drug for a rare blood disease failed a late-stage study.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The price of insulin, a life-saving treatment discovered a century ago, has been a flashpoint amid the broader drug pricing debate. The FDA is trying to tame high insulin prices by encouraging price competition. Under a rule change published this week, the FDA will classify insulin as a biological product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

For example, many investors I know tell me they look for business plans that allocate the largest portion of a requested investment to marketing, but most often see the top “ use of funds ” to be further product or service development. Of course, you can’t possibly brand yourself if you don’t know who you really are.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Prices for agricultural commodities such as corn, soy, and wheat are at their lowest levels in years, but investment in agricultural technology has never been better. The increase in dollars flowing to agtech comes despite commodity prices that are down 65 percent from their 2013 peak, the report says. They also queried 15 VC firms.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

If you enjoy this blog I think you’ll enjoy watching the first 14 minutes of this video (just click on the image of me below). I give a sneak peek at a blog post I’m writing on the topic next week. I spoke about the need of the CEO, CTO and head of Products to be in the same location. Great exit. -

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2020

That price is a 60 percent premium to the Boston-based company’s closing stock price on Friday. The company currently has two commercialized products, along with others in its pipeline, some of which are in development with large. for each share of Akcea (NASDAQ: AKCA ) that it does not already own.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The new team-up has a lot of moving parts: Shopify even termed it a “first-of-its-kind” partnership in its announcement blog post. They'll need to open a TikTok For Business account and select a product to feature, before auto-generating video ads that can link any interested TikTokkers directly to the merchant's Shopify store.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. They like a solid product, well defined pricing, good references to sell against, a clear quota and well defined competitors. They are as good at selling you as they are at selling your product to customers. My first startup was no different.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

What price? Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price.

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Xconomy

JUNE 4, 2018

A combination of the sheer number of products a retailer like Walmart has on offer and the pace of 24/7 shopping makes it very difficult to maintain real-time inventories. “If And as hard as it may be to believe, retailers “don’t really know what’s on the shelves,” says Sarjoun Skaff, founder and CTO of Bossa Nova Robotics.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

I recently wrote a blog post in which I pointed out that many investors & advisors discourage enterprise startups from having a professional services (PS) business and I think this is a big mistake. help you integrate your product with other systems making it harder for your product to be replaced by competitors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

What price? Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Image via Flickr by SideWages.com These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. Of course, there is a plethora of “experts” emerging out there, who are anxious to lead you down that path, for a large price. Curation, the most efficient content.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

I was talking with an early-stage founder who has a product vision and wants to get it built. He wanted to get input from me on what he's doing, and he wants to begin to ask developers what it would take to build his product. Me : Product definition, use cases, feature list, wireframes, comps, really whatever you have.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Seth Levine of Foundry Group addresses this important topic this morning on his blog with a post, “ Has Convertible Debt Won ?&# I’ve written about the topic of convertible debt at length before specifically about how angels & entrepreneurs should think about pricing. a priced/valued preferred stock financing)?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity. Fixed price bidding is the only effective outsourcing model.” Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming. Be flexible.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

—Allergan CEO Brent Saunders criticized “egregious price takers” and pledged his own firm would practice responsible pricing to get out in front of potential legislative action that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been threatening.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

In his maiden post on the topic he wrote, “After product-market fit and an efficient conversion process, the next critical step is finding scalable, repeatable and sustainable ways to grow the business. If this isn’t part of your culture on your product & marketing teams I can assure you it is on one of your competitors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions. The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2017

Novartis said Wednesday that it would not charge for its newly approved cellular immunotherapy, tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah)—the first so-called CAR-T product to ever come to market—if it fails to help patients within a month. The no-charge promise didn’t assuage critics of the price.

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