Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Entrepreneurs see “no risk” as meaning “no reward.” Many risks can be managed or calculated to improve growth or provide a competitive edge, while others, like skipping quality checks to save money, are recipes for failure. Risk is more manageable with subscriptions and even freemium pricing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Every new entrepreneur soon realizes he or she has some big ones, but very few figure out how to use these them to their advantage. I believe that the resourcefulness to turn constraints into competitive differentiators and new opportunities is a trait that separates the great entrepreneurs from the “wannabes.”

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Launching and growing a startup is one of the biggest missions an entrepreneur can undertake. But while competition remains fierce, the advancement and accessibility of smart solutions are making it easy than ever for startups to find their feet. Read our guide to the best VoIP desk phones to check out its competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2014

Entrepreneurs see “no risk” as meaning “no reward.” Many risks can be managed or calculated to improve growth or provide a competitive edge, while others, like skipping quality checks to save money, are recipes for failure. Risk is more manageable with subscriptions and even freemium pricing. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Entrepreneurs see “no risk” as meaning “no reward.” Many risks can be managed or calculated to improve growth or provide a competitive edge, while others, like skipping quality checks to save money, are recipes for failure. Risk is more manageable with subscriptions and even freemium pricing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. Even a conversion rate of one percent can build a healthy business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2014

Freemium model. Here your objective is to make money with the portfolio, with high markup and low markup items, depending on competition, lock-in, value delivered, and loyal customers. It can be a very competitive approach, but the product must be designed and built to provide good utility at many levels. Feature pricing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I was mentoring some graduate students at a local university recently, and I sensed again that profit seems to be a dirty word these days to many aspiring entrepreneurs. Freemium model – people pay for upgrade. It is a very competitive approach, but requires design and development effort for value at every level.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2013

Freemium” model. Here your objective is to make money with the portfolio, with high markup and low markup items, depending on competition, lock-in, value delivered, and loyal customers. It can be a very competitive approach, but the product must be designed and built to provide good utility at many levels. Feature pricing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2012

Freemium” model. Here your objective is to make money with the portfolio, some with high markups and some with low, depending on competition, lock-in, value delivered, and loyal customers. Competitive positioning. In heavily competitive environments, the price has to be competitive, no matter what the cost or volume.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2010

Freemium” model. Here your objective is to make money with the portfolio, some with high markups and some with low, depending on competition, lock-in, value delivered, and loyal customers. Competitive positioning. In heavily competitive environments, the price has to be competitive, no matter what the cost or volume.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

The same should be true of an entrepreneur who is attempting to secure money from sophisticated investors. Step 1: The Person, Not The Firm – As Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson make clear in their book Venture Deals , entrepreneurs should identify specific venture partners, rather than target firms as a whole. It’s not.”

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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. A recurring entrepreneurial challenge is to determine the optimal price of a new product, especially absent a directly competitive alternative.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

How are you finding your conversion rates working with the freemium model? John Nahm: Freemium has been working spectacularly. John Nahm: The Northern California technology environment already assumes you already know a lot of stuff, and it's very competitive in nature. Entrepreneurs here really enjoy helping each other.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Most new business owners I know feel the challenges of not enough time, money, and resources, and see these as problems rather than a competitive advantage. Many companies these days start with a single online-only purchase model, but later move to providing subscription services and freemium alternatives.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Bootstrapping advice, entrepreneur, startups. . The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Bootstrapping entrepeneurship, entrepreneur, startups. .

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

Sherry Gunther: Primarly, MyMiniPeeps will be freemium mode. There's more competition, but there's a lot more available to you as a developer. Tags: entrepreneur startup kids children video videogame game content world virtual myminipeeps media masher gunther sherry. It will be free to play, but by purchasing a premium, $5.95

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

We talked about how business school historically hasn’t positioned entrepreneurs well for success. I wrote about that before in a post about “ whether MBAs are necessary for entrepreneurs. His class reading lists could be a primer for any entrepreneur, not just MBAs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2010

Many entrepreneurs think that risk is just an “occupational hazard” that can be minimized or eliminated by a smart businessman. In reality, some risks are good and should be embraced for growth and a competitive edge, while others are bad and should be avoided completely. Tags: entrepreneur startup strategic risk business.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). clearly didn’t cause this.” How it happens.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Most entrepreneurs think that risk is just an “occupational hazard” that can be minimized or eliminated by a smart businessman. In reality, some risks are good and should be embraced for growth and a competitive edge, while others are bad and should be avoided completely. That way of thinking is simplistic and wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2011

Most entrepreneurs think that risk is just an “occupational hazard” that can be minimized or eliminated by a smart businessman. In reality, some risks are good and should be embraced for growth and a competitive edge, while others are bad and should be avoided completely. That way of thinking is simplistic and wrong.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - OnStartups , November 1, 2010 There's always talk about the end game in the form of an acquisition, funding announcement, or eventual flame out. love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. This doesn’t make sense. Keep going.

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