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Helping Consumers Name Their Own Price For Products, With Greentoe

socalTECH

In real life, you can just about bargain a price for anything you want to buy--a car, a house, even that new stereo from your local electronics store. Joe Marrapodi: GreenToe is a name your own price marketplace for products. It''s very similar to the Priceline.com model, where you name your price for a flight or hotel.

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

One of his companies - Gluecode - was sold to IBM for a pretty good price. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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What Can You Learn From Ring’s Astounding Success?

Both Sides of the Table

When Jamie told us he was going to build “Doorbot” (the name prior to Ring) and he explained to us that it was a video security doorbell sold at mass-market prices to bring security to homes that have never been able to afford them?—?we we were sold on the concept immediately. He really thought about helping middle-income families.

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

socalTECH

Out of 41 companies who submitted their software for approval, only three were accepted--us, McGraw Hill, and Peoples Education. We've also been at a big discount to the other firms for the first seven years we were around, we were half the price of Kaplan and Princeton Review until last year, when they both dropped their prices to match us.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

Both Sides of the Table

Most of them are completely mundane such as choosing which: bank, office space, 1-year lease vs. 2-year lease, logo, URL, pricing structure or which VC. The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions. So I was surprised at the sheer volumes of decisions that had to be made when I became a startup CEO.

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Interview with Bong Koh, LifeCrowd

socalTECH

We want to create the right mix of the types of activities, price points, and make sure we have high quality content and high quality activities. In terms of the types of experts we are working with, we're fortunate that, even though we just launched, we've got a queue of hundreds of experts who want to work with us.

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Eight Startup Tips From Mark Zuckerberg

InfoChachkie

" I recently performed a 360-Review on two Co-Founders who were the company's CEO and CTO. The typical startup cannot afford a massive ad campaign to educate users as to its value proposition. . "I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress."

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