Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2013

For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box. Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books.

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eBook Metrics Startup Examples 95

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these “techno geeks” can pay. The venture capital firm that bears his name. Kleiner Perkins.

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Education Venture Capital UCSD Class 417

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. Explain how your service works?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

Along with Amazon, Dell was also an early pioneer of web-based customer service. These two areas of operational innovation allowed Dell to defeat a number of tech-centric competitors which spent significant money researching and developing technological features, ever briefer product lifecycles. Look around.

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Tips Startup Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 247

Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

A company official told Xconomy the drug would be priced in line with standard of care enzyme replacement therapy, which costs around $300,000 per patient, per year. The drug has a list price of $69,350 per patient, per year. —Jazz Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: JAZZ ) agreed to pay $1.5

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San Diego Patents Acquisition News 62

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

There has recently been a common theme among the entrepreneurs I have interviewed and the conferences I have attended: despite the relatively weak state of the world economy, now is a great time to create a high-tech startup. When companies have excess capital, they often dither as they attempt to craft an ideal solution.

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Company Companies Startup Study 257

socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2011

The prefab building area has seen some recent venture capital interest, most recently with Blu Homes in Boston, which just scored some new venture capital. We've got a range of services  from architecture, landscape design, and interior design to the construction side as a general contractor. We were established in 1989.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. This should not deter you. This doesn’t make sense.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

The prices of angel deals have recently crept up, VCs have also gotten their checkbooks out again, frothy deals are happening and people are feeling bullish. The spending contraction is inevitable in a period of declining real prices of housing, high unemployment and tightening credit.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

Tech.Co

JANUARY 4, 2018

The HOPii is a countertop sized, high-tech fermentation device for your homebrewing needs. Lishtot is the first IoT network of consumer products that can test drinking water for contaminants within seconds for an affordable price. The company has been selected as a CES Innovation Awards 2018 Honoree. HOPii (San Jose, CA).

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