Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Start with a “sample” business model, available in generic form or customized for specific industries, from many sources on the Internet. More challenging is ‘defining’ the business model (assembling all the real variables of your projected business, pricing assumptions, staffing requirements, marketing costs, sales costs, and revenue flows).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2012

In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. Customer personnel seemed to like it, and it worked, so he was totally devastated when he couldn’t sell one for a “reasonable” price in the first two months of hard work. Use focus groups.

Entrepreneur 99

Entrepreneur Pricing Customer Custom 99

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Pricing engine helps publishers ascertain ad inventory pricing by analyzing ad transaction data from the market/exchanges. Here’s this week’s outline: INTRO to FARB NIVI. Total round was $2.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2011

Start with a “sample” business model, available in generic form or customized for specific industries, from many sources on the Internet. More challenging is ‘defining’ the business model (assembling all the real variables of your projected business, pricing assumptions, staffing requirements, marketing costs, sales costs, and revenue flows).

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Startup Sample Summary Pricing 94

SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I''ve written before about finding Web Development Firms in Los Angeles. And you will want to make sure you see what the particular designers have done, samples of their work product, their process, etc. They have the lowest price out of several vendors several of which come in at roughly the same higher price.

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Web Development Web Develop Development 204

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2011

In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. Customer personnel seemed to like it, and it worked, so he was totally devastated when he couldn’t sell one for a “reasonable” price in the first two months of hard work. Use focus groups.

Startup 93

Startup Pricing Customer Custom 93

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

Earlier this month, Los Angeles startup Dollar Shave Club (www.dollarshaveclub.com) made a huge splash with its launch of a subscription, monthly delivery service for razor blades. We somehow got on a conversation about shaving, and he mentioned the price of brand name razors. That's the one we'll mass product.

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Dollar Shave Club Startup Pricing Sample 210

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2009

We're now funded by a bunch of angels. Mike Neshat: We were just at Computex in Taiwan, and our pricing is definitely, significantly lower than front end modules, and even lower in cost than how you'd do this traditionally. In terms of pricing, no one can compete. It's the same part that came out as our first engineering sample.

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Patents Sample Technical Review Pricing 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2010

Start with a “sample” business model, available in generic form or customized for specific industries, from many sources on the Internet. More challenging is ‘defining’ the business model (assembling all the real variables of your projected business, pricing assumptions, staffing requirements, marketing costs, sales costs, and revenue flows).

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Invest Startup Sample Summary 71

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. There are various models of this but amongst the most successful I’ve seen executed is FabFitFun , based in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based HauteLook (www.hautelook.com), an online private sales site, scored a major round of funding--raising $31M from Insight Venture Partners. Adam Bernhard: After my tenure as Senior Vice President at Joie, I saw a huge opportunity with the off-price brand liquidation business.

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Sales Email Startup Sample 224

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

I had known several of the investors, both at the angel and venture level, and they were interested in a fresh set of eyes, and new energy in looking where we could take this business in its next phase of growth and evolution--and, ultimately, to look for some successful exit down the road. It's all delivered over the web.

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Legalzoom Startup Template Sample 164

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

See a sample reprint in PDF format. SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2010

In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. Gather some representative customer contacts, and give them your best sales pitch, including price, channel, and support. Sample trade show or user group. Use focus groups.

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Tips Pricing Customer Custom 48

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Los Angeles is rapidly gaining a reputation as being the center of the Internet advertising world, for good reason, with a large number of online advertising firms located within and around Los Angeles. Publishers run with Hydra because we've eliminated the risk and so forth in pricing.

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Advertising Beverly Hills Networking Customer 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Los Angeles is rapidly gaining a reputation as being the center of the Internet advertising world, for good reason, with a large number of online advertising firms located within and around Los Angeles. Publishers run with Hydra because we've eliminated the risk and so forth in pricing.

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Advertising Beverly Hills Networking Customer 100

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

This biotech company developed Xplore-PATHO as a service to test samples for the presence of pathogens – everything from bacteria and DNA virus to parasites and fungus – in a single test. Price: $1.99 The company said on average, users can pay off an extra $600 per year on debt through their service.

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Startup Mentor Platform Help 79

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

I had been hanging around Klout for a year and many of my friends had angel funded the company and were champions. So I was delighted that he was recently in Los Angeles and I had a chance to have one of our typical private meetings but this time we did it with a camera on. 56:45 Looking at the stock price of Cornerstone.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup 303