Xconomy

APRIL 13, 2017

Tocagen raised $85 million in its stock market debut today, and underwriters saw enough demand to increase the number of shares in the initial public offering. San Diego-based Tocagen (NASDAQ: TOCA ) priced its offering of 8.5 million shares priced between $10 to $12 each. million shares at $10 per share.

San Diego 66

San Diego Pricing Demand Marketing 66

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

You also ran the risk that if you hired employees quickly and then demand wasn’t as strong as expected it was incredibility hard to fire people. I find it distracting that when you click on a link you’re taken away from the main blog and need to hit the back button to remember to finish the article.

Startup 261

Startup Press Blogging .Net 261

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

This is important because the customers they serve (the red line) demand a product that meets their complex requirements. First, over time Salesforce.com’s technology got better and better yet the price didn’t shoot up dramatically relative to Siebel. They are radically lower in price. So what did happen?

Startup 376

Startup Framework Marketing Customer 376

Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

The industry can only go so far with growth through hyper-inflated pricing and mega-M&As. At some point pharma has to figure out how to make more drugs more efficiently, or face major dislocations like business-destroying price controls. The increasing need for new drugs is intense.

Product 40

Product Journal Venture Capital Demand 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

on the entrepreneur side of the table) when I raised at too high of a price. So don’t raise money at a cheap price, but don’t get too far ahead of yourself either. Pricing high also takes exit options off the table. But if you do this early (pre VC) then the price points are pretty low. This is wrong.

Venture Capital 282

Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. Because it is a “series&# I plan to get into some of the deeper complexities of funds such as “cross over funds&# and “why VC’s hate to price their own deals&# at a later stage.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Seed Funding Pricing Invest 265

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

It is also a result of pent-up demand. To understand this in great detail see this very important blog post by Henry Blodget on the unemployment rate in the US and its impact on the recovery. If these factors impact earnings the stock market may be headed South – If unemployment rises housing prices won’t.

Venture Capital 269

Venture Capital Startup Funding Technical Review 269

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Yet you can never forget the seasonal business cash flow and activity demands that are approaching, so to be prepared – you need to start the planning now. Home prices are slowly coming back, and consumer spending reached a new high of almost $11 billion in May 2013. Don’t let the demands of seasonal fluctuations spoil the party.

Startup 86

Startup Tips Venture Capital Demand 86

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

Providers make their pricing model transparent and easily available on the web, so it’s simple to calculate the cost savings of the cloud. Hulme, blogging at Cloud Commons , believes that the cloud will spur a jobs explosion, though the jobs descriptions will differ.

Cloud Computing 85

Cloud Computing Marketing CIO Organization 85

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

The price / share is actually $2.40 (not $3.00), which is $3,000,000 pre-money / 1,250,000 shares (because you had to create the 250,000 share options). Term Sheet Overview : The second most important economic term in the term sheet other than price is “liquidation preference.&# Now that I do they’re willing to accommodate?

Venture Capital 405

Venture Capital Pricing Startup Funding 405

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In essence, as a contractor, you are a consultant who is competing regularly for new work, and you constantly have to differentiate your offering from other candidates, including price. Use blogging, outside publication, and speaking or mentoring opportunities to establish credibility and stand out above peers.

Startup 98

Startup Outsource Development Competition Social Media 98

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

New investors sometimes want early investors to put in money to “prove” they have confidence in the new price. some may get caught out paying too high of prices for what perhaps will be great deals but not at the prices being paid. So the answer is: sometimes they take it, sometimes they don’t.

Guide 336

Guide Venture Capital Startup Writing 336

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. In my experience, the key steps I look for always include the following: Testing the idea against customers who have money to spend.

Ideas 94

Ideas Slides Technical Review Patents 94

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

And I'm looking forward to more interaction now that she's blogging. BLOG: [link] LINKEDIN: [link] TWITTER: [link] What's a phone booth? Maybe you can blog about that? Just posted a blog about that: [link] I've been struggling a little with making the numbers work out for some social media activity.

Marketing 150

Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

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.

Services 207

Services Startup Venture Capital Redpoint 207

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

We’ve simplified our pricing, and API partners are now utilizing our technology in unique ways to fulfill a growing demand for entertainment imagery.”. All images are pre-approved for use in editorials, magazines, e-publications like blogs and pages, and personal prints.

Press 69

Press Entertainment Pricing Blogging 69

InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

Agree to Bundling Without a Minimum Price. Although necessary, “stepping stone” approach of initially utilizing smaller VARs to enter new geographic markets can become problematic as your business grows, because large VARs often demand uncontested, broad, multi-country coverage. Do Not Agree to Bundling Without a Minimum Price.

Outsource Development 193

Outsource Development IP Technical Review Entrepreneur 193

InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2015

Demand Feedback - Unfortunately, data derived from freeloaders is often misleading and seldom includes pointed criticisms that inform your product / market fit. Irrespective of how elect to monetize your free users, the only way to accurately gauge customer demand is to charge a reasonable price for your solution.

Technical Support 100

Technical Support Customer Custom Demand 100

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

A really great example of this is described by Steve Rentoid in Inventing Demand. And then: When people rented the items, I went out and bought them, first hunting for the lowest price on line. After the rental I sold the item on eBay for around about 80% of the retail price. So, he would determine what people might want.

eHarmony 204

eHarmony Marketing Startup Zag 204

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

A really great example of this is described by Steve Rentoid in Inventing Demand. And then: When people rented the items, I went out and bought them, first hunting for the lowest price on line. After the rental I sold the item on eBay for around about 80% of the retail price. So, he would determine what people might want.

eHarmony 196

eHarmony Marketing Startup Zag 196

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

I tend not to go into heat when I hear the latest buzz on the tech blogs about the latest gadgets. I actually wrote a long blog post about this but I’m trying to get TechCrunch to publish it before putting it on my blog. And the starting price for WW is $18 / month … DailyBurn is free. We’ll see.

Technical Review 278

Technical Review Software Review Startup SoCal 278

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

We allow them to have virtual store fronts, portable stores, which they can place on their social networking profiles, on their own dot com, on their blogs, and so forth--anywhere fans already interact with the artist. We've got a suite of on-demand, manufacturing tools which means they never have to spend money upfront. for a shirt.

Van Nuys 191

Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Learning experience includes: on-demand online video tutorial courses, live video-conference workshops, as well as individual online consultations, live workshops, and group programs. Creators can take any course of interest on-demand by purchasing it through our website. How does it work? Take us through your features?

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak. Mea culpa and get right back into line.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Paul discussed his perspective having been at SAP Ventures. Real-time search engine.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

People who believe the former believe that you should see the market demand before too many people know you’re “in market.” This goes into the heart of my controversial blog post (coming soon! Come back to this blog over the next 2 weeks and I’ll explain. I think there’s some truth in this.

Venture Capital 332

Venture Capital Funding Startup Sales 332

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

What I found out very quickly, is there is a tremendous demand among the independent production community for this information. Pricing starts at $19.00 I really saw it as an opportunity to do something that no one else was doing at the time, so I established the site. What's the business model behind OpusData? a month.

Beverly Hills 164

Beverly Hills Research Hollywood Sites 164

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

He wanted to create awareness for himself to generate marketing buzz and demand and then get the retail stores to pay wholesales prices for his cds. I had written a blog post on exactly this – how to not suck at group presentations – and what he said reminded me a lot of this post. He created demand.

Entrepreneur 356

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Startup Email 356

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Yesterday I saw a Tweet from Chris Sacca fly by that prompted me to want to write a blog post helping entrepreneurs understand why they should push back against VCs asking for “super pro-rata” rights. They might own 8% of your company after the first funding but demand up to 33-50% of your next round of financing.

Entrepreneur 310

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Writing Invest 310

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

Fancy websites are expensive, but blogs and Facebook pages are free. As your services gain demand, your time becomes more valuable and you can charge more. It's amazing how rare it is for professionals to return phone calls and emails promptly, show up on time, or finish a project for the price quoted.

Startup 92

Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92

Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

That said, when a customer posts on Facebook that you should lower your prices by 50%, perhaps this is not something you should spend too much time on. However, if your customers don’t post anything at all, good or bad, perhaps your pricing is too high overall. After writing this blog post, I found this on Facebook.

Social Media 214

Social Media Customer Custom Media 214

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

Even tech blogs know this. Tech blogs can theoretically scale, tech conferences are pure service businesses. You end up needing to add staff and take on more risk without knowing what your future demand will be. But this lesson in business was never lost on me. But How Do Service Businesses Grow?

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Rather than shutting down shop, the student simply moved the operations down the hall and continued satisfy the brisk student demand for the consolidated notes. Within days of releasing the personal version, the Founders began receiving inquiries regarding the price of a commercial version of their product. Nostalgic Graduation Poster.

Ideas 153

Ideas Startup Pricing Entrepreneur 153

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. It pains me to see the typical (and predictable) responses on Twitter, “VCs want prices to drop!” ” “Sure, prices are dropping.

Startup 150

Startup Company Companies Venture Capital 150

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Removing the Middleman: Embedding Shopping on Your Blog. In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. .

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 9, 2011

Just like iGottaGuide, the idea was all about democratization–taking the power away from the gatekeepers and giving customers a greater range of choices at a lower price. We are posed as a nimble startup ready to shift with consumer demands. Check out one of my most recent blog posts: Fear of Failure. Henry Ford.

Startup 63

Startup Guide Entrepreneur Ideas 63

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I have made many of my arguments in a blog post I wrote on The Innovator’s Dilemma , a concept that is critical for both innovators & incumbents to understand. The goal of any cartel is to control production, distribution & marketing of a set of goods with the goal of maintaining high prices. Why the limitation?

Hulu 292

Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292