Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

If that bond isn’t there or if it feels like I’m in a bidding process for the highest price, I might as well be Wells Fargo. In the simplest form, new startups have a product that is INFERIOR to that offered by the competition but at a dramatically lower price with the seller opting for a very thin margin on their product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Prices begin to decline quickly. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Prices begin to decline quickly. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2019

I still see too many aspiring business leaders highlighting their technology, product features, and price, more than customer value and usability. Tony Hsieh, founder of Zappos, is recognized as an influencer in online retail, doubling sales annually, by giving away shoes to the needy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

In his recent book, “ Second Stage Entrepreneurship ,” Daniel J. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2012

To start, New Media Expo (NMX) is the first and only industry-wide conference, tradeshow and media event dedicated to blogging, podcasting, social media, social networking, online video, music, Internet TV and radio. What does this mean for you ? Rental technology and furnishings available from GSC/Freeman. See you in Vegas!

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

In his classic book, “ Second Stage Entrepreneurship ,” Daniel J. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

We spoke with Derrick Oien, president and co-founder of the firm, about the company's mobile social networking applications, as well as about his view on penetrating the mobile carriers. What exactly are your mobile social networking applications? The second customer is the social networking sites.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. They compete on features, price and execution. The video industry will be disrupted just as books, newspapers and music before it. Bottom of the sales funnel. And the future?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

I just finished a new book, “ Second Stage Entrepreneurship ,” by Daniel J. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

Subscription pricing has been around for a long time for magazines, cloud-based software, and gaming, but now I’m seeing it used for just about anything, including for more stylish clothes via Mr.Conection , gourmet foods via TryTheWorld , and toys for your kids via SparkBoxToys. Front-of-the-line model.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This is one book-end of the cycle. I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals. VC’s are working hand-in-glove with the investment bankers to prepare for IPOs or create auction-style trade sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

OPEC (the organization of petroleum exporting countries) is a cartel that was set up in the 1960′s and represents the interests of the 12 biggest oil producing countries in the world with the goal of increasing prices of oil, a good supplied in limited quantities to a world that had insatiable demand for the product.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. They’re not buying a book on Amazon or shoes on Zappos. Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? Why buy me?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2016

Subscription pricing has been around for a long time for magazines, cloud-based software, and gaming, but now I’m seeing it used for just about anything, including for more stylish clothes via Mr.Conection , gourmet foods via TryTheWorld , and toys for your kids via Pley. Front-of-the-line model.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

My partnership was pretty bearish and scratched our heads a bit at price tags. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. You would think it would be better for M&A to be more active when the markets are down – better prices. M&A returned.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

If you're an expert in a certain technology--say, business process design--and have thought about publishing a book, this is a quicker, faster, and more comprehensive way to share it with the world. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2012

“I found it to be the best social network, connecting people on a deeper level. Park and his co-founders have been to Eric Reis’s Lean Startup events and were highly influenced by the book. “We They took everyone’s response and averaged the price, which came to about $5. The Awesome Insteegram Team.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). clearly didn’t cause this.” How it happens.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

Think of looking at a dot graph of your business sales in virtual reality. Through the RAY VISION app, the user can manage communication, digital services and social networking, through simple gestures, haptic feedback, adhesive tags, voice recognition, and more. Price: $1.99 DatavizVR (Austin, TX). The room is 45 sq.ft.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. 10 ways to profit off of Twitter participation without a book deal, sponsorship or selling your star. Entrepreneurism / Monetization #pr20chat, Social Media ROI, twitter. .

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

. • Music – enable a dead simple player on band and profile pages that lets users upload their songs and have them purchased for any price they set. Work with the studios to have premium Hulu-ish content prominently branded and for sale. I’m not friends with most of the people that are connected to me on social networks.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. million members who have added over 270 million books, completely by word of mouth.

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