Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There were startups and a software industry but barely. In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. They wanted to build new products, solve problems that were unfilled by the last generation of software companies and grow revenue year-over-year while holding costs in check.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In some ways, the biggest software acquisition of all time could be a yawner. IBM’s planned $34 billion deal to acquire open-source software maker Red Hat is a hefty price to pay to give its cloud computing business a shot in the arm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. Revenue and competitive position followed. Facebook’s winning strategy was a laser focus on increasing active user counts and time spent online.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 19, 2015

Computers and the Internet have now brought in a new era that relies on data to make profitable business decisions in the competitive environment. Below is a full explanation of how small businesses can leverage technology to earn a competitive advantage in the marketplace. BPM Software. Analytics Software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

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.” I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” Be flexible.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

That is, businesses are using APIs like crazy to stay competitive and communicate with both partners and customers more effectively. Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter have already proven that using API services they can stay ahead of their competition and deliver continuous value to their user base,” says David Kullmann, Partner at Citrusbyte.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

On the other hand, the biggest winners will turn out to be much larger than the prices people paid for them and this will happen faster than at any time in human history. Before Twitter he held similar roles at SuccessFactors (SaaS), Akamai (telecoms infrastructure), McAfee (Security Software) and was an investment banker.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

OpenStack is the set of open source components, software, and hardware which allows companies and service providers to deploy their own, interoperably cloud services, and is considered a competitive technology to Amazon''s cloud services suite. Pricing on the new Private Cloud offering from Metacloud was not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 20, 2021

Eano, she said, offers competitive and transparent pricing so that homeowners aren’t surprised as a remodeling project goes on. We’re also helping these individual contractors increase the brand, and helping them with the administration and customer support side with our software.”.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

However, 10 years after the software was first released, the kanban-based system is getting a major overhaul. See our full Trello Pricing guide for more. The software now offers Timeline, Table, Dashboard, and Calendar views. Find out how Trello stacks up to the competition in our Best Project Management Software guide.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Conventional wisdom in most companies is that “the competition is the enemy&# – it’s the rallying cry to dig deeper, get more features out the door, issue press releases citing differences and attack the competition’s weaknesses in sales presentations. A healthy respect for your competition will serve you well.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Source: hibobbie.com The company also raised an impressive $70 million in funding in June to acquire the legacy pediatric nutrition brand Nature’s One, bringing its total kitty up to $142 million and helping to secure its competitive advantage in the industry going forward. million site visits in October alone. Gumroad homepage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

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.” I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” Be flexible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

For example, I once worked for a small software company selling a sophisticated enterprise workflow solution. In many cases, the products from competitive companies are complementary, or many customers are natural candidates for both. Of course, this path involves some risk, but you never get anywhere unless you take a chance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and customer segment. Match with competitor prices and market demographics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

An international brand will command higher prices and additional customer demand. Software can be developed “offshore” for a low cost, manufacturing volumes are quickly available from China, and European designs have increased opportunities in every country. with demands for new products and services. Find global sources now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. Revenue and competitive position followed. Facebook’s winning strategy was a laser focus on increasing active user counts and time spent online.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2021

The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate. If you have had to pivot from the consumer market to enterprise customers, that requires new pricing models and new sales channels.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

A number of teams have recently been looking to turn that vision into reality, as a result of the Qualcomm Tricorder Prize , a $10M competition being run by the X Prize Foundation to create a real life Tricorder. That''s essentially how the Tricoder competition was formed--it''s time for this to happen. It was announced in the 90''s.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. presented pricing challenges when compared to a whole new set of offline competitors we didn’t know well. were more distributed.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

They have high-priced property and zero innovation. It tested our beliefs about pricing, products and marketing overall of our service. So we took a breather to build our software and processes before launching. Building a Large Software Lead. We built warehouse management processes and software. This was painful.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Most experienced business people love to help, but they don’t have the time or interest to give you a course on basic business concepts, like the need to be competitive. I get much more satisfaction, and can provide more realistic help, in steering you through specific pricing, organizational, or competitive challenges you face.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2018

The reality is that successful businesses these days require an equally elegant business model, with the right marketing, delivery channel, price, and target customers, to get real traction. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and the perfect customer segment. Make every pilot customer commit to be a reference.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Between the mid nineties until 2007 wireless carriers around the world religiously protected the software that went on to phones and they guarded the end consumer relationship by controlling this software. So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!, Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

To update Marc Andreessen’s widely publicized quote from 2011, “OpenStack Software Defined Networks (SDNs) are eating the world.” For instance, in 2000 Gartner created the term Supranet to describe how software would connect disparate hardware – proclaiming the advent of the Internet Of Things a decade and a half too early.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?” I also try to understand things like how you’re pricing your product, how your competitors price and what your pricing expectations will be in the future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2019

Much has been written recently about the requirement to focus today on the total customer experience, as a competitive edge or even for survival. Expedia and Travelocity do this by checking all the ways you can get from one city to another, with current prices, including connections to rental cars and hotels when you get there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2013

In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Your business model can be your competitive edge, or it can be your soft underbelly.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2013

There''s been a revolution in the last few years with the dropping price and increasing accessibility of 3D printers--those devices which let you print practically anything using just your own personal computer, 3D software, and a special printer. What''s your competitive advantage against others in the headset/accessories market?

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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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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2013

Cloud storage is a competitive market, with dozens of cloud storage providers hoping to gain a big chunk of the market. Number two, is our pricing. We''re vertically integrated, from our servers to our software, so our product works in a much better fashion than third party storage services. Number three, is the ease of use.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

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.” I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” Be flexible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2012

In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Your business model can be your competitive edge, or it can be your soft underbelly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

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.” I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” Be flexible.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In reality, some risks are good and should be embraced for growth and a competitive edge, while others are bad and should be avoided completely. But if you want growth and sustainability, you need to create smart risks, which means intentionally taking a risk to grow your business or gain competitive advantage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

But that doesn’t mean that people are paying rational prices as investors based on intrinsic value. Rational people can disagree and some may argue that today’s prices are rational and under-pinned by economic drivers. All of that might be true, but the 2006 price might still be over-valued. That’s fine.

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