TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 4, 2018

As you might expect from the name, Freeletics operates its mobile fitness coaching app on a freemium model, with tiered pricing beginning at $11.99 The app, which offers fitness content and AI-powered training plans tailored to individual users, initially focused on Germany but has since grown in popularity across Europe and in the U.S.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2021

San Diego-based sales and marketing software developer Seismic has raised $170M in a Series G funding round, the company said this morning, and is now valued at $3 billion. Rowe Price, according to the company. The company said the new funding will be used to continue expanding Seismic's platform, R&D, and global footprint.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. Train and coach continuously. Companies with great service routinely spend 3% to 5% of salaries training team members – experienced as well as new. Know your customers intimately.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. Fixed price bidding is the only effective outsourcing model.” Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming. Fair compensation is the lowest price we can negotiate.” Be flexible.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Assuming that you are the elected or self-assigned negotiator, the last thing you want is to have them in the room while you haggle over price. There’s the sale of a company, where as a board member, I asked the CEO to name his asking price and then go home and wait the result. Advantage other side.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to AeroVironment, the $8,584,734 firm-fixed-price U.S. Department of Defense Foreign Military Sales contract will go towards purchase of its Puma 3 AE unmanned aircraft systems, training, and support to an allied nation. The company said those unmanned aircraft are expected to be delivered in June of 2020.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Celebrating that strategic partnership Many of us make it a priority to find and partner with companies that can add to our offering or extend our reach. It takes real effort and planning on both sides of a partnership between companies to make it work. Why would this partnership – one that benefits both companies – fail to succeed?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2023

In reality, many companies now offer a “ clicks and bricks ” business model, with shopping online, and then completing the purchase and support at a physical location. This means real customer value emphasis in all interactions and marketing, versus low price and price concessions. Inflexible processes.

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Xconomy

JULY 25, 2019

On Wednesday evening, Castle priced its offering of 4 million shares at $16 apiece, which was the high end of its targeted price range. The Friendswood, TX, company had previously planned to sell approximately 3.4 Wednesday IPO activity also included two health IT companies. million shares in the range of $14 to $16 each.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

So when I meet with GRP portfolio companies that do enterprise sales I try to emphasize the following: 1. This might mean helping customers buy traffic, arb’ing deals, helping with RTB pricing or trading, etc. Frankly, you’re going to need to drop price a bit anyways. rollout support. integration with other systems.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There was no money train. I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. It was 1991. We still loved every moment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2013

One of the toughest decisions for a startup is how to price their product or service. The alternatives range from giving it away for free, to pricing based on costs, to charging what the market will bear (premium pricing). In this more traditional product pricing model, the price is set at two to five times the product cost.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

Thinkful , a New York company, says it has started accepting applications from people in Los Angeles for its "living stipend" program, which pays students $1500 a month to pay for things like rent, gas, and food while they take the company's technology training--in exchange for a portion of their salaries when they graduate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. Train and coach continuously. Companies with great service routinely spend 3% to 5% of salaries training team members – experienced as well as new. Know your customers intimately.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 9, 2019

Founded by serial travel entrepreneur Katelyn O’Shaughnessy, whose last company TripScope was acquired by Travefy, Doctours aims to connect patients with doctors to receive access to quality, affordable healthcare around the world. In 2018 alone, 14 million patients traveled abroad to seek healthcare, according to the company.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2019

According to the company, its new Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Profanity Filter Service is aimed at combating offensive user generated content in real time, through automated, real-time filtering. Pricing on the new tool, which is now in limited beta, was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 15, 2017

YayYo said it specifically launched to counter the daily surge pricing from such services as Uber and Lyft, and that its rides will come from a "professionally trained driver" and such features as onboard security cameras in brand new vehicles. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

Now customer support is called the “customer experience,” and everyone is expecting you to actually anticipate their personal needs, and totally delight them with all aspects of the shopping experience, price versus value, as well as help with any follow-on questions or problems. Company amazingly finds you based on your interests.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

Nor do they exist in the investors of early-stage companies. I had never had any sales training so everything we did for the first couple of years was instinctual. We focused together on improving our sales methodology, our training and our comp plans through a larger than life ex country manager from PTC named Kai Krickel.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Cornerstone OnDemand said the new product uses machine learning and Cornerstone's data set, to help companies better recruit, train, and manage people. Pricing on the new tool was not announced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2021

In fact, our education and training to logically associate related concepts reduces our ability to add the creative side, even though we were all born without that bias. Many businesses have found that raising the price of a product to give it status can win more customers than a price war. Think the unthinkable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. Power has been guiding growth companies for 25 years, and now teaches innovation at the Harvard Extension School.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2022

Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Every company needs this focus to attract the best minds and loyalty in both categories. Create an environment that unleashes these competencies and trains and pushes them to the fore. Craft your culture into an actionable plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Don’t let your service be viewed as a commodity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2020

He is the Founder of the very successful Container Store , while still making Fortune magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list for seventeen consecutive years. Start with only the very best people, demand excellence, and train them to stay ahead of the pack. Simultaneously deliver the best selection, service, and price.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Cornerstone OnDemand said its new Cornerstone for Salesforce directly embeds learning management into Salesforce.com, giving sales and service firms direct access to training from within that tool. Pricing on the new software was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Having great company culture is no longer just an option. In fact, fantastic company culture is almost expected along with other traditional benefits. New employees are offered $2,000 to quit after the first week of training if they decide the job isn’t for them. What does that culture look like? Warby Parker.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Having great company culture is no longer just an option. In fact, fantastic company culture is almost expected along with other traditional benefits. New employees are offered $2,000 to quit after the first week of training if they decide the job isn’t for them. What does that culture look like? Warby Parker.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2023

The total customer experience includes identifying with your company culture, the shopping experience, the customer-facing team and social media interaction, as well as resolution of any transaction glitches. Train customer-facing team to collaborate with customers. Add the extra mile to make the experience exceptional.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2021

Here are my recommendations for training and managing your team to keep their delivery memorable for customers, as well as profitable for your business: Hire team members who enjoy customer interaction. Provide training, tools, and required decision authority. That approach still is meaningful today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. Fixed price bidding is the only effective outsourcing model.” Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming. Fair compensation is the lowest price we can negotiate.” Be flexible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Don’t let your service be viewed as a commodity.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2016

Irvine-based cybersecurity services and software provider CrowdStrike said today that it has launched a new, bundle of software specifically aimed at breach prevention at companies. CrowdStrike also said it is bundling together online technical training sessions from its instructors on each of the packages, as well. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Some objections are real and they end up becoming changes to your product, your service plan or your pricing / bundling. As a founder, when you’ve been dealing with these kinds of objections for a couple of years it becomes natural and you easily handle objections on price, product & competition without much thought.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. Power has been guiding growth companies for 25 years, and now teaches innovation at the Harvard Extension School.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Networking to build and maintain positive relationships with the right people outside your company is something you can’t forget in the rush to get your new business going. For example, consider Whole Foods , whose focus on healthy foods and a sustainable environment is legendary, even though their prices are often a bit higher.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Almost instantly, via the Internet or on their smartphone in the store, they can find the lowest price alternative or their favorite features, without waiting for push marketing or listening to your best sales person. Make sure you adopt the right hiring practices and training to keep your team responsive.

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