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Real Startups Never, Ever Discount Their Prices

InfoChachkie

Avoid a simple pricing mistake which could sink your startup. Vendors often respond by discounting their prices at the 11th hour, in the hopes a lower price will spur a purchase. However, if you never offer price discounts to anyone, you can resist all such requests by deferring to your company “policy.”

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Shopify Just Bought the Deliverr Shipping Network for $2.1 Billion

Tech.Co

The two companies are a great match, according to Shopify's press release about the deal. The press release notes that the current “hyper-fragmented” market of third-party logistics companies and transportation providers can make fulfilment a huge hassle for merchants. Why Shopify Wants Deliverr. Sign up to the Tech.co

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

I have experienced many first-time entrepreneurs with too much hubris if fund-raising came easily and press was fawning and employees joined in droves and customer adoption has been rapid. In London when founders failed they were ostracized in the press and culturally I believe it became harder to raise capital.

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6 Building Blocks Make Amazon A Global Market Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

At Amazon, Jeff Bezos leads a relentless drive to invent dramatic new ways to delight customers, not waiting for customer demands or competitors to show the way. Their pricing algorithm crawls the Web daily, and adjusts prices to always match the lowest price found anywhere, offline or online.

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Everybody Wants Their Pound of Flesh (Negotiating with Buyers)

Both Sides of the Table

” The post talked about how to find the lowest acceptable price & terms in a deal through testing. You’ve got to have some wiggle room on price and on terms. She got you to drop price and include more licenses for free. Most people claim to not want to deal with the hassles of negotiating. Your IT Reviewer.

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The Loneliness of Success that Nobody Talks About

Both Sides of the Table

They suffered in trying to live up to public perceptions and the demands to continue their successes. He suffered publicly as the press called his wife fat and begged people at concerts to be kinder to his wife. Success can be lonely because it is only a heartbeat away from failure and the press love a rise-and-fall story.

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Startups Weekly: Upfront Ventures bets on a bus service

TechCrunch LA

The company is actually based out of LA, too, but has completed its initial launch in Minnesota, where there’s greater demand for short-term bus travel. A traveler pays Sun Country one fixed price to get them from the bus pick-up point to their final destination. Landline isn’t just a few buses with startup branding.

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