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Berkonomics
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
In one industry I know well, the dominant player with 22% market share was acquired by one of the largest companies in the technology world. Everyone, including those connected with the newly acquired dominant player, wondered what changes would affect their company and their personal lives and fortunes. Quietly abandon a niche?
Berkonomics
OCTOBER 13, 2016
In one industry I know well, the dominant player with 22% market share was acquired by one of the largest companies in the technology world. Everyone, including those connected with the newly acquired dominant player, wondered what changes would affect their company and their personal lives and fortunes. Quietly abandon a niche?
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 22, 2014
It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. Of partner?
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 25, 2021
Find out if something very similar is already selling, and who your competition would be if you proceed. Be wary of crafty shysters who will flood your mailbox with official-looking mail offering to help for a fee, or demanding fees you forgot to pay. Attend trade shows and network to find the right players and pitch your product.
socalTECH
MAY 2, 2011
Educate us, and explain what's different about how you are handling ticket sales and how that's different from the many others out there? There is no real room for negotiation, or to let demand drive the pricing on the buyer side. The reason why, is the StubHub did a good job legitimizing secondary sale of tickets.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 15, 2010
For a big company, that might be through their own sales force, and for a smaller company it might be a small team which is operating the site themselves. We manage that competition through an aucton process. For instance, they might be selling ad space directly. They can sell those ads on a CPM, CPC, or CPA basis.
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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