TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 4, 2018

As you might expect from the name, Freeletics operates its mobile fitness coaching app on a freemium model, with tiered pricing beginning at $11.99 The app, which offers fitness content and AI-powered training plans tailored to individual users, initially focused on Germany but has since grown in popularity across Europe and in the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. Train and coach continuously. Companies with great service routinely spend 3% to 5% of salaries training team members – experienced as well as new. Know your customers intimately.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2020

A division of Pasadena-based Caltech , the Caltech Center for Technology and Management Education (Caltech CTME), is teaming up with Fullstack Academy to offer up a cyber training program online, Fullstack said on Tuesday. Pricing on the new program was not announced; Fullstack said the program does not require Caltech enrollment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Start with only the very best people, demand excellence, and train them to stay ahead of the pack. Simultaneously deliver the best selection, service, and price. The best relationships with vendors give you price and selection leverage, and the best service relationships bring customers back.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. 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. Fair compensation is the lowest price we can negotiate.” Be flexible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2013

One of the toughest decisions for a startup is how to price their product or service. The alternatives range from giving it away for free, to pricing based on costs, to charging what the market will bear (premium pricing). In this more traditional product pricing model, the price is set at two to five times the product cost.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2021

Rowe Price, according to the company. Along with the funding, the company said it has acquired Lessonly, a developer of sales training, coaching, and enablement software which is based in Indianapolis. Financial details of that acquisition were not announced.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to AeroVironment, the $8,584,734 firm-fixed-price U.S. Department of Defense Foreign Military Sales contract will go towards purchase of its Puma 3 AE unmanned aircraft systems, training, and support to an allied nation. military sales contract from an un-named, U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2023

For example, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company has implemented a practice of authorizing employees, after relevant training, to spend up to $2,000 per guest, without pre-approval, to solve a special requirement for any guest that will make their visit totally memorable. Great customer service now must be proactive, rather than reactive.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Assuming that you are the elected or self-assigned negotiator, the last thing you want is to have them in the room while you haggle over price. There’s the sale of a company, where as a board member, I asked the CEO to name his asking price and then go home and wait the result. And yet, lawyers are trained in the art of negotiation.

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Xconomy

JULY 25, 2019

On Wednesday evening, Castle priced its offering of 4 million shares at $16 apiece, which was the high end of its targeted price range. Castle Biosciences is joining the public markets through a $64 million IPO that will support cancer tests that help doctors make treatment decisions. million shares in the range of $14 to $16 each.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The Senate confirmed Tom Price as Secretary of the U.S. Price is an orthopedic surgeon by training who has been a member of Georgia’s congressional delegation since 2004. While in Congress, Price has been an outspoken critic of the. In total, the department has an annual budget that tops $1 trillion.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 18, 2017

Tom Price, the man who could oversee an overhaul of the U.S. Price, an orthopedic surgeon by training, is President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary. [Note: This report was co-authored by deputy biotech editor Ben Fidler.]

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. Train and coach continuously. Companies with great service routinely spend 3% to 5% of salaries training team members – experienced as well as new. Know your customers intimately.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

After an initial focus, perhaps during an introductory meeting or training session, the salespeople hit the road. Consider a sales relationship where your product will be in the bag of salespeople from the partner company. Such a partnership requires much more than a general agreement at top levels.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2018

The Dodgers said that the venture will initially launch in conjunction with the GBG Training Academy in Redondo Beach, which will become the first "Dodgers Training Academy", powered by E|L1; the group says it will power additional Dodgers Training Academies in the greater LA area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2010

One of the toughest decisions for a startup is how to price their product or service. The alternatives range from giving it away for free (like Twitter), to pricing based on costs, to charging what the market will bear (premium pricing). Portfolio pricing. Tiered or volume pricing. Freemium” model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Projecting financials is a natural extension of the homework every entrepreneur needs to do on customer opportunity size, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value. As a rule of thumb, most viable businesses need a gross margin above 50 percent, even on wholesale prices, to cover operational expenses and survive as a business.

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socalTECH

MAY 15, 2017

YayYo said it specifically launched to counter the daily surge pricing from such services as Uber and Lyft, and that its rides will come from a "professionally trained driver" and such features as onboard security cameras in brand new vehicles.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The company says its new tool was developed and trained on extracting text from actual user generated content, and is more effective than most OCR solutions, which are really designed from extracting text from documents. Pricing on the new tool, which is now in limited beta, was not announced.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

I had never had any sales training so everything we did for the first couple of years was instinctual. We focused together on improving our sales methodology, our training and our comp plans through a larger than life ex country manager from PTC named Kai Krickel. Sales people will often blame your pricing.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

Thinkful , a New York company, says it has started accepting applications from people in Los Angeles for its "living stipend" program, which pays students $1500 a month to pay for things like rent, gas, and food while they take the company's technology training--in exchange for a portion of their salaries when they graduate. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Cornerstone OnDemand said the new product uses machine learning and Cornerstone's data set, to help companies better recruit, train, and manage people. Pricing on the new tool was not announced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2021

In fact, our education and training to logically associate related concepts reduces our ability to add the creative side, even though we were all born without that bias. Many businesses have found that raising the price of a product to give it status can win more customers than a price war. Think the unthinkable.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There was no money train. In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. By 2015 it had come to signify by the market a new era where business fundamentals had changed, companies could easily and quickly be worth $10 billion or MORE so why worry about the “entry price!”

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 9, 2019

There is an increasingly advantageous global marketplace available with highly trained practitioners offering quality healthcare solutions at affordable prices and, although medical and dental tourism is a safe and cost-efficient solution, the current market is extremely fragmented and challenging to navigate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2021

Here are my recommendations for training and managing your team to keep their delivery memorable for customers, as well as profitable for your business: Hire team members who enjoy customer interaction. Provide training, tools, and required decision authority. That approach still is meaningful today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Don’t let your service be viewed as a commodity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2023

Customers react poorly when they hear your value claims for them, and see more value to you (bottled water in your hotel room at a high price as a “convenience” to you). Train customer-facing team to collaborate with customers. Internal training and policies are not adequate to create great customer experiences.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Cornerstone OnDemand said its new Cornerstone for Salesforce directly embeds learning management into Salesforce.com, giving sales and service firms direct access to training from within that tool. Pricing on the new software was not announced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2020

Start with only the very best people, demand excellence, and train them to stay ahead of the pack. Simultaneously deliver the best selection, service, and price. The best relationships with vendors give you price and selection leverage, and the best service relationships bring customers back.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Prices begin to decline quickly. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive. Unfortunately, the mainstream customers who can really drive revenue care more about price. Thus even if unit sales keep increasing, revenues can lag due to the need for lower prices as the mainstream market takes over.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Proof of any business model starts with a finished product or solution, sold to a new customer for full price, with high satisfaction for the value received. Customers expect to be delighted in all phases of the product life cycle -- understanding features, pricing alternatives, returns and problem resolution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. 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. Fair compensation is the lowest price we can negotiate.” Be flexible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2022

Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Create an environment that unleashes these competencies and trains and pushes them to the fore. More and more customers choose a company based on their perceptions about the good that they do, as well as their price and service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Don’t let your service be viewed as a commodity.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Some objections are real and they end up becoming changes to your product, your service plan or your pricing / bundling. As a founder, when you’ve been dealing with these kinds of objections for a couple of years it becomes natural and you easily handle objections on price, product & competition without much thought.

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