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Get in the Holiday Spirit at the Annual Digital Family Reunion Bash!

Tech Zulu Event

You’ve been working like a maniac, so why not take a break to reflect, relax and raise a glass with some of LA’s most successful technology entrepreneurs? REGISTER NOW with promo code DFR54 for 20 percent off your ticket price! The bash takes place tomorrow from 6-11pm at Wokcano Restaurant in Santa Monica.

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

Of course, one of the best ideas around this is to have Negative Customer Acquisition Costs. My experiments in lean pricing - Venture Hacks , February 16, 2010 Ash Maurya, a lean entrepreneur who runs a bootstrapped startup called CloudFire, discusses pricing issues for first versions (Minimum Viable Product – MVP). Great stuff.

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Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

socalTECH

parent company of IDrive (www.idrive.com), to learn about his company''s online backup and sync products--plus how he wants to challenge companies like Dropbox, Google, and Microsoft with a bigger and better cloud backup and sync service, and by building that here in Southern California. Number two, is our pricing.

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Interview with Brett Crosby and Brew Johnson, PeerStreet

socalTECH

Brett and I both grew up in Southern California. So, what is PeerStreet? Those loans are very mis-priced, in our opinion. We had courses together in college, and got to know each other on a deeper intellectual level, before we got to know each other socially. There's lot of great stuff happening here.

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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

He then pointed out that for service-based businesses every slot that went unfilled the provider had very high fixed costs and very low marginal costs and people ought to be willing to sell low-demand or last-minute expiring times at a discount while selling premium times at full price or even a surge price.

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My story: Fail locally, one customer at a time.

Berkonomics

It’s good advice; the theory being that entrepreneurs can discover the flaws in their business models sooner, make course corrections and move in a more favorable direction. You just had to be lucky, write reasonably good code and land in an industry with some legs, and of course, treat the customer well. . – Dave.

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