socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2017

San Luis Obispo-based MINDBODY , the developer of cloud-based business management software for spas and the wellness services industry, has acquired Lymber Wellness , a startup that provides yield management and pricing software for class and appointment-based businesses. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

Technology 100

Technology Startup Class Pricing 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Sendgrid offers up API-based email services, used by many Internet, e-commerce, on-demand and other service providers to send emails to their customers. Twilio said it would pay 0.485 shares of Twilio Class A common stock for each share of SendGrid common stock, or approximately $36.92 per share based on today's closing prices.

Orange County 113

Orange County Email Commerce Class 113

TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

Key Functions with High Impact Generative AI is revolutionizing sales by enabling dynamic pricing and personalized customer interactions, boosting conversion rates and customer satisfaction. Post-sale, AI analyzes customer data to improve service and loyalty, making it a cornerstone of modern sales methodologies.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 2, 2021

As video commerce becomes the norm and entertainers, brands, businesses, and franchises of all sizes and stripes look to cut out the middle man, the array of services on offer from Maestro may be the scissors these entities need to cut the cord. The one thing that Maestro won’t do is discovery or search services, Evans said.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2018

According to the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Second Appellate District, which is located in Los Angeles, Tinder's pricing scheme violates age discrimination laws in California. Candelore had alleged that Tinder's pricing was age discrimination under the Unrah Civil Rights Act and the Unfair Competition Law.

Class 113

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator that launched in 2018, brought investors and founders together in private slack channels after a live-streamed presentation. This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine.

Invest 237

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

You’ve figured out your channels of distribution, pricing model and how to support your growing list of customers. You can be the one to develop a product or service, promote it, and support it when you are a small operation. So, your business has begun to take off. Don’t be alarmed by this next statement. That’s relatively easy.

Class 156

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Berkonomics

APRIL 13, 2017

If your vision is for a product or service that fills a need in a mature industry, you may be flying against the prevailing winds as a market shrinks over time, taking your business with it. Do you have a world-class management team? Some great ideas just cannot be made into a product at a reasonable enough price to attract customers.

Patents 291

Patents Pricing Ideas Marketing 291

Tech.Co

JUNE 3, 2022

But the news another sign of the innovation, consolidation, and power-jockeying happening in the payments service business. Square debuted an upgraded next-gen version of its Square Stand POS system last month, while Stripe is adding Buy Now, Pay Later functionality to its own payments service. Should Your Business Get Tap to Pay?

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

This week, we saw the interconnectedness of major institutions as crypto lending protocol Celsius stuttered and brought down Ethereum prices with it as investors feared a price collapse brought on by reportedly over-leveraged players like 3 Arrows Capital. I don’t even think digital assets [are] an asset class. TC+ analysis.

Newsletter 278

Newsletter Platform Capital Marketing 278

Berkonomics

JULY 31, 2014

There are lots of ways to define how to market well, including the four P’s of marketing (1): product, price, promotion and place. Use all the techniques you learn in marketing classes to drive demand. Higher demand results in higher prices – if there is limited supply. This is considered to be the producer-oriented model.

Marketing 201

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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. Venture, private equity and more: Here we lump a large number investor classes into one.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

If the market is moving quickly toward your class of product or service, you may be able to gain a piece just by being there at the right time with the right product or service. The market was moving in the opposite direction from the company, and the company paid the ultimate price.

Marketing 120

Marketing Class Startup Research 120

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

If the market is moving quickly toward your class of product or service, you may be able to gain a piece just by being there at the right time with the right product or service. The market was moving in the opposite direction from the company, and the company paid the ultimate price.

Marketing 120

Marketing Class Startup Research 120

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

When people talk about “online food delivery” services, chances are that they’ll think of the Uber Eats, Instacarts and Getirs of this world. GrubMarket got its start several years ago as one of many companies looking to provide a more efficient farm-to-table service. and Canada. .

Startup 249

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Even if the goods and services are changing hands as gifts, or the revenue motive exists only to make services sustainable, the economic value is evident. One consequence of the new sharing business model is that goods become services. There is value in the “idling capacity” of all assets. Where and when is all this leading?

Resource 126

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam’s vision was to build a world-class “reverse logistics” company that could be as ambitious as Amazon has been in delivering goods to our houses. How profitable is my product or service? What sized team can I afford in order to sell, market & provide service to these customers? were more distributed.

Startup 286

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2023

You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Have you set the right price for your entree, and correctly included all costs? If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. not a solution looking for a problem) Be sure you have a great team. But don’t practice too long.

Startup 112

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 27, 2023

An Intro to the Chatbot 8 Questions with Claude [Test] Claude Pricing & Tokens Explained Claude 2 and ChatGPT: Key Differences Should You Use Claude AI? Here's how it responded: Claude Pricing & Tokens Explained You can use Claude 2 for free, but you’ll be limited. You'll also see how Claude differs from ChatGPT in key areas.

ChatGPT 142

ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Training Startup 142

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Is there a market for your class of product at all? Whether it is you or a quality control manager, someone must assure that the product or service you send out to the world will not fail to perform at least to the level of customer expectation, if not to delight those customers most likely to be critical. First, there is market risk.

Competition 156

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

He or she will assume your comment means there is no market for your product or service, or you haven’t looked. Highlight your world-class team as the secret sauce. Declare that you will offer the product or service free. Leading with this answer will likely terminate any further investment opportunity with this investor.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2019

In addition to creating a franchise chain which exceeded 500 locations at its peak, Martha Harper was also one of the world’s first social entrepreneurs, helping thousands of middle-class women create their own businesses and control their destinies. Martha was born into an impoverished household in Ontario, Canada.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Class Template Patents 100

Eric Greenspan

APRIL 9, 2013

We love to browse the latest and greatest technology and touch it and we will buy it if we know its fairly priced and sold by a reputable firm. The price keeps dropping. We need fewer answers and simply more price options. “At Best Buy, you get only the latest, lowest priced electronics and you get them all right now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Have you set the right price for your entree, and correctly included all costs? If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. not a solution looking for a problem) Be sure you have a great team. But don’t practice too long.

Startup 156

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 156

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5% above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. And it’s driving up prices beyond their inherent value.

Invest 299

Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. That’s fine. And so on down then line.

Pricing 309

Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

THIS ROLE REQUIRES DEEP EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND RELATIONSHIPS IN THE IT SERVICES, TELECOM, CLOUD AND HOSTING MARKET. Our proprietary CLX platform is an enterprise-class, SaaS automation capability set, that partners can private label to package, sell, deliver and manage a broad portfolio of products and services.

SoCalTech 124

SoCalTech SaaS Los Angeles Platform 124

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

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. People were not just going to Google, they were looking all over the place.

Content 193

Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2011

If the market is moving quickly toward your class of product or service, you may be able to gain a piece just by being there at the right time with the right product or service. Either way, very few startups can afford to forge new markets or create a product that does not fit into an existing class of increasing demand. .

Class 149

Class Product Marketing Demand 149

Berkonomics

JUNE 2, 2015

You’ve figured out your channels of distribution, pricing model and how to support your growing list of customers. You can be the one to develop a product or service, promote it, and support it when you are a small operation. So your business has begun to take off. Don’t be alarmed by this next statement. That’s relatively easy.

Class 120

Class Customer Custom Email 120

Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2011

Even with the usual discount of 10%, the margins on hardware were high, especially when applied to prices that exceeded $30,000 per sale. . In the early eighties, IBM helped the PC become a tool of the office, and the product crossed over from use by early adopters to the mass market. Email readers, continue here.]

Pricing 184

Pricing Networking IBM IBM 184

socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Susan Sloan: The market segment that we are going after, is the market that pays full fare first class, but has never chartered a jet before. You never get a �buy now� price. All of our pricing is buy now, and the price you see is the price you pay, versus many of the extras you have to pay for when you charter your own jet normally.

Pricing 100

Pricing Sites Services Customer 100

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. Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. What is it, really? even a DTC company?—?if

Product 296

Product Course Customer Custom 296

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Tool Users - Startups often have a long gestation period in which the team is in discovery mode, defining the company's value proposition, target market, pricing, business model, etc. Action vs. Analysis - Although its use is in decline, many MBA classes are still taught via the Socratic case method.

Entrepreneur 279

Entrepreneur Technical Review Case Study Class 279

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Even if the goods and services are changing hands as gifts, or the revenue motive exists only to make services sustainable, the economic value is evident. One consequence of the new sharing business model is that goods become services. There is value in the “idling capacity” of all assets. Where and when is all this leading?

Commerce 98

Commerce Social Media Platform Class 98

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

And then they said one thing that most marketers go their whole career never hearing, 'Listen Steve, price is irrelevant, it is speed that matters.' We had been pricing our graphics cards to be a low-cost provider. The first thing I did was raise our prices.". Marketing, number one, is a service function.

Marketing 271

Marketing Startup Sales Customer 271

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

We look at things like price range and geography, and type of house, and look at all agents who have done similar transactions and determine who has the highest probability of success. Why do you need a service like this, rather than the traditional process of asking around for recommendations? How do agents react to your service?

Help 258

Help Startup Sales Customer 258