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Sundae snags $36M to build out its distressed property marketplace

TechCrunch LA

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

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Startup Pricing: Are You Selling A Giffen Product?

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In his premier film appearance in the blaxploitation send-up ā€œIā€™m Gonna Git You Sucka,ā€ Chris Rock inadvertently addresses a key pricing challenge faced by most entrepreneurs. Watch this 93-second clip and see if you can identify the pricing pitfall addressed in this humorous snippet. Price = Value. How Much For A Rib?

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United Dwelling is one startup building something to solve Californiaā€™s housing crisis

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based company makes money on the sale of the house, managing the rental and connecting homeowners to a lender that will give them money to acquire the rental property. The prices will vary by neighborhood, but Dietz expects them to run 20 percent less than the average cost of an apartment in the same neighborhood, he said.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

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The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. “COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.

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Should Startups Care About Profitability?

Both Sides of the Table

The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 senior sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then youā€™ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business 6 months. COGSā€ represents the amount that each sale costs you.

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This Womanā€™s Company Should Have Been Named After Her, Not Her Husband

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Ruth had previously headed the companyā€™s sales efforts, but she formally moved up to the CEO role upon Matsonā€™s departure. This is an especially remarkable feat, considering that Americaā€™s entire population at that time was 157 million, representing a sale to 1 out of every 1.7 In 1955, the companyā€™s net work was $500,000 ($4.6

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Interview with Robin Richards, CareerArc

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com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. I think, to be a great entrepreneur, you have to look at what is missing in the category that you will be playing in the industry, and figure what you can deploy with a little bit of strategy and technology to bring a better service and price. What is CareerArc?

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