socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In one of the biggest acquisitions out of Southern California's technology startup industry in recent years, Los Angeles-based Honey Science Corporation , which develops a savings discovery and price tracking tool, has been acquired by PayPal , in a deal worth approximately $4 billion. READ MORE>>.

Southern California 133

Southern California Commerce Acquisition .Net 133

Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2020

Substitute the word “money” for “water” and we have an explanation for most all the reasons why successful products move from concept through early adopters through mass market. Fighting this fact will just extend the misery of accepting a result with as product or marketing failure in the marketplace.

Examples 156

Examples .Net Pricing Email 156

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Gross Burn vs. Net Burn. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it Net burn is the amount of money you are losing per month. I often see companies burning $100,000 per month (net) looking to raise $6-8 million.

Startup 383

Startup Company Companies .Net 383

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

Not so long ago, every business assumed that the keys to success were the highest quality product, the best value for the buck, and the best customer service. Exploit your product and service differences. You must be able to highlight these differences between your products and services, and those of your competitors.

Custom 85

Custom Customer Product Marketing 85

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2022

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. A target market is the group of customers that the startup plans to attract through marketing and sales their product or service. Production. Target market.

Sales 102

Sales Custom Customer Outsource 102

Berkonomics

APRIL 17, 2014

Are you an artist with a new record, a new movie idea, a new small product to offer? Perhaps you can attract a large number of investors who just want to support your idea, or get discounts for your product. Share price and methodology for determining the price. The issuer complies with certain other requirements.

.Net 209

.Net Pricing Ideas Invest 209

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed. Process myth: Why building a product leads to failure.

Technical Review 143

Technical Review Custom Customer Entrepreneur 143

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2013

Nagdev spent almost ten years managing product at LowerMyBills.com, and also previously co-founded TeamSportsHub.com. Nagdev also has served at 20th Century Fox, Bizrate.com, Computer Sciences Corporation, and Adventure Net. Spokeo said that Nagdev will help in re-evaluating the company''s product structure and pricing package.

.Net 124

.Net Pasadena Pricing Services 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2020

In my experience, the top candidates will include the following: What if you have to cut your targeted price? Pricing is always a tricky issue. You need to quickly calculate the long-term impact on profitability of pricing and business model changes. What if you need to change your market size and volume projections?

Startup 123

Startup Pricing Sample Custom 123

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2013

OpenX said the new Revenue Intelligence product uses algorithms to figure out the total value a page generates, based on a net present value calculation--taking into account page views and clicks, traffic, and more. Pricing on the new product was not announced.

OpenX 159

OpenX Content Services Advertising 159

Berkonomics

JULY 18, 2013

Substitute the word “money” for “water” and we have an explanation for most all of the reasons why successful products move from concept through early adopters through mass market. Fighting this fact will just extend the misery of accepting a product or marketing failure in the marketplace. Email readers, continue here.]

.Net 179

.Net Email Examples Pricing 179

Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

Venture Capital 243

Venture Capital Product Resource Marketing 243

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?” They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million. ” The Details.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Certainly, bootstrapping is a preferred method of funding growth if it does not hold back the speed of growth or hobble the quality of product or service to the extent that better-funded competitors can overtake the business. There is a lot to say about retaining control. It’s an option, even though an expensive one.

Venture Capital 266

Venture Capital Class Invest Equity 266

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit. Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50%, and a net margin in the 20% range. Re-investing profits to grow the business is organic growth. High customer loyalty and high team passion.

Organization 94

Organization Invest Custom Customer 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit. Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50%, and a net margin in the 20% range. Re-investing profits to grow the business is organic growth. High customer loyalty and high team passion.

Organization 173

Organization Invest Custom Customer 173

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It’s a virtue of the laws of large numbers ($100 million in ARR ) plus strong growth compounding off of large numbers plus large customers relying on our products for 7+ years or longer. And while it hasn’t been an “overnight success,” we’ll happily follow in ProCore’s footsteps.

Venture Capital 363

Venture Capital Capital Funding Startup 363

Xconomy

JULY 7, 2016

The remaining neurology and pain sales staff will operate under the same management, a streamlining move that the company hopes will help the company better target the key physicians who prescribe the company’s products. That deal added Somaxon’s insomnia drug doxepin (Silenor) to the Pernix product mix. million net loss.

Sales 40

Sales San Diego .Net Report 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

Steve Blank via Flickr by jdlasica I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed.

Startup 98

Startup Technical Review Custom Customer 98

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. I have seen really great product people espouse the death of the business plan. Do so at your peril.

Web 2.0 334

Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Is it one product line or multiple? For example, if you sell your product through a third-party reseller who charges 30% of any sale then your COGS will be 30% of revenue (assuming no other costs of sales). They used the money to hire a bigger tech team so they could roll out their second product line. Not necessarily.

Startup 227

Startup Venture Capital Sales Course 227

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2015

Not so long ago, every business assumed that the keys to success were the highest quality product, the best value for the buck, and the best customer service. Exploit your product and service differences. You must be able to highlight these differences between your products and services, and those of your competitors.

Custom 100

Custom Customer .Net Competition 100

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

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?

Content 193

Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

In my experience, the top candidates will include the following: What if you have to cut your targeted price? Pricing is always a tricky issue. You need to quickly calculate the long-term impact on profitability of pricing and business model changes. What if you need to change your market size and volume projections?

Startup 103

Startup Pricing Sample Custom 103

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

Pushing yourself on customers by touting features and price doesn’t work anymore. Although customers today are comfortable providing personal information in return for a better experience, they are also quick to write you off if you misuse the data, disclose it, or use it to push irrelevant products.

Custom 133

Custom Customer Social Media Startup 133

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Great products solve painful real problems, and are not just “nice to have” or “easier to use.” For example, everyone would agree that a cure for cancer is a worthy solution, if you can show evidence that it works, and can be replicated and sold for a rational cost and price in the market today.

.Net 73

.Net Examples Custom Customer 73

InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

However, in the long run, entrepreneurs always benefit from delivering Maximum Utility for a fair price. Perhaps in part due to its dominant market share, WebEx adopted telecom-style pricing, which effectively penalized their users. WebEx’s predatory pricing made it vulnerable to a new entrant. Arbitrage Is Fleeting.

Entrepreneur 225

Entrepreneur SaaS Pricing Cloud Computing 225

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2020

I have seen employees how have a lion's share of their net worth tied up in options, and have a very difficult time to exercise those options. But, not only is the cost of exercising them costly, in terms of shares times exercise price, but the tax effects of those exercises tends to be even more dramatic.

Startup 113

Startup Paramount Invest Capital 113

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

CapLinked also netted in new customers such as Thomson Reuters, Sun Capital, and Equity Partners, NextView Ventures and crowd-funding service AI Verified which will take advantage of its iPad compatibility, bulk uploading, and reporting tools.

Mobile 91

Mobile Report Pricing Tool 91

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2014

ORA looks to improve upon what made Google’s creation great and do it all at a fraction of the price. Once we did that, it was just a matter of integrating that into a product. ORA offers more features than Google Glass and at a price they can’t compete with. These are just a fraction of what Google has to offer.

Google 89

Google Screening Startup Pricing 89

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production. In essence users like you probably used many of these products without complete awareness that your computer became a node and was being used to transmit files.

Course 280

Course Startup Framework Marketing 280

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed. Process myth: Why building a product leads to failure.

Entrepreneur 113

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Custom 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

If you''re a brand or retailer, needing to get online, there are a lot of things to deal with to run your e-commerce business smoothly--everything from your e-commerce site itself, to taking photos of your products, packing and shipping, to digital marketing. Who are your ideal customers and market? You''ve got a very interesting background.

Commerce 203

Commerce Venture Capital Internet Brands Startup 203

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product. Production. Target market. Distribution.

Sales 97

Sales Custom Customer Outsource 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed. Process myth: Why building a product leads to failure.

Startup 64

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Custom 64

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

If there happens to be a gas station along the way where you can fill up for a reasonable price, great. One way to combat reckless spending is to instill a sense of pride in your employees to never pay full price. Rather, you should be ashamed to pay full price. Encourage all of your employees to ask, “Is that your best price?”

Startup 221

Startup Pricing Entrepreneur Email 221