Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Create an environment that unleashes these competencies and trains and pushes them to the fore. Companies can use this strategy to improve their profitability and competitive advantage. Craft your culture into an actionable plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. You can be pissed off, but I don’t set prices. That’s stupid.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

In the short term you need customers to find you at any price, and in the longer term you need revenue, profit, and return loyalty. Although his focus is naturally on bigger companies, I contend that his recommended strategies apply equally well to entrepreneurs and startups: Demand a mindset of deep thinking for the long term.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2015

Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Create an environment that unleashes these competencies and trains and pushes them to the fore. Companies can use this strategy to improve their profitability and competitive advantage. Craft your culture into an actionable plan.

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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. Here are some key strategies that I recommend to every worker today: Develop and highlight your competitive differentiation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. Train and coach continuously. Train and coach continuously.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

It must be written down, with measurable team objectives, validated by metrics and compared against competition. Provide coaching and mentoring as well as training. Formal training for the team is just the beginning, not the end. Most importantly, your actions speak louder than words.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Create an environment that unleashes these competencies and trains and pushes them to the fore. Companies can use this strategy to improve their profitability and competitive advantage. Craft your culture into an actionable plan.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It takes a well-rounded and motivated team to run a competitive business today. They have to be energized and able to adapt as the market and competitors demand. Too many businesses have their “cash cows,” which they refuse to touch with pricing or new features until it is too late to recover. Once gone, customers won’t be back.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2014

Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Create an environment that unleashes these competencies and trains and pushes them to the fore. Companies can use this strategy to improve their profitability and competitive advantage. Craft your culture into an actionable plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In the case of MakeSpace we had huge initial successes in New York City as Rahul led the scaling of our drivers, our trucks and our warehouses and we figured out the right price points to beat the local competition. and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs. were more distributed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping. As a rule of thumb, most viable businesses need a gross margin above 50 percent, even on wholesale prices, to cover operational expenses and survive as a business. Forecast sales-volume expectations.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

The first thing you are trained on, is to qualify customers and figure out if they need upright or inverted microscopes. We've created an alternative, a hybrid microscope for the price of one. We got first place in that competition, and they followed up with a $2M investment in the form of a convertible note.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

The first thing you are trained on, is to qualify customers and figure out if they need upright or inverted microscopes. We've created an alternative, a hybrid microscope for the price of one. We got first place in that competition, and they followed up with a $2M investment in the form of a convertible note.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Nick Desai: FitOrbit delivers a proven solution for fitness and weight loss over the Internet, for the first time, at a price people can afford. With FitOrbit, we bring real, one-to-one, human-based personal training and meal planning to the Internet for the first time. We've also built a variety of pricing options.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2021

One question I often hear from solo entrepreneurs, and she addresses directly, is “How do I set the right price for my services?” The simple answer is to balance supply and demand, but here are some specific considerations that she and I both proclaim as key factors: Use project pricing rather than hourly rates.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Premium window treatments and home decor basics at an accessible price. Premium window treatments and home decor basics at an accessible price. On-Demand Lawn Care and Snow Plowing. He was fortunate enough to attend three competitions: Atlanta, Sydney and Athens. Attorney On Demand – Via Video Chat – New App.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2017

One question I often hear from solo entrepreneurs, and she addresses directly, is “How do I set the right price for my services?” The simple answer is to balance supply and demand, but here are some specific considerations that she and I both proclaim as key factors: Use project pricing rather than hourly rates.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

So winning means they’re paying the highest price. Would you mind if I had a senior training rep call you for 30-minutes to give you a quick demo to get you up to speed? GroupOn, Living Social, AdMeld, Gilt Group, Demand Media, ShoeDazzle, Tumblr, FourSquare, etc. You need to create a sense of competition.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 30, 2018

It did not hurt that Apple always seemed to trump the competition in design of the product and the product’s user interface too. Marriott called theirs “tier pricing”. In the meantime, we sold a second system to a large timeshare resort in Orlando for the same price. The moment of truth: Facing the “no decision” competition.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 18, 2011

Marriott called theirs “tier pricing”. Our company installed the system, integrated it with the Sonesta computer system which our company had previously provided, trained the staff, and began to measure the results after turning on the system in a live environment. At 90% they would stop discounting entirely.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable. Terrorism at scale can only occur when these organizations can move money around to finance people who make bombs, buy guns, train recruits and so forth. It’s Hobbesian economics 101. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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