Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

As I’m generally a believer in ‘pricing rounds’ I initially didn’t agree with the premise of the post. Investors who commit early deserve to have a lower price. You mean to tell me that guy deserves the same price as somebody who invests six months later? Photo credit: D. Blanchard/O’Reilly Media.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Aliso Viejo-based Smith Micro Software has rolled out a new product aimed at wireless carriers, which allows carriers and retailers to control on-screen demos at their retail stores. Pricing on the new product was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2010

TechZulu and Schmoozd have joined forces to bring you Startup Demo during Social Media Week. We are selecting 10 startups to demo during the event and the lucky chosen get to do so completely free! What: A Startup Demo event. Price: FREE. If you have a startup you would like to showcase at Startup Demo please apply here.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine. “We tuned into a bunch of different digital demo days; one of our advantages was being able to learn from others,” he says. Yellow investment SketchAR.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

The presenter comes out of the meeting proud at having gotten through all 30 slides (and maybe even a demo) with a bunch of smiling faces and nodding heads and no discussion. After the sales meetings I would ask the exec afterward, “how do you think it went?&#

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

They demoed the electricity transfer with a physical device that looked like something that would never be allowed on an airplane. If electricity could be transferred like WiFi but as safe as a soundwave we use on pregnant women’s bellies and at a price-point that was attractive this is a multi-billion market.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Los Angeles-based Needly , a new startup headed by Fred Kreuger, who has been involved with such firms as Adconian, the Dot Eco domain, Tagworld, and iWin, has launched this week at the DEMO conference in Silicon Valley. Needly has created a way for mobile phone users to list the goods and services they are looking to buy and sell.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

My list of excuses includes: product, pricing, competition and lack of sales support. The post of mine that Erin took issue with was TEDIC – The Excuse Department is Closed in which I characterized typical sales reps as driven nearly exclusively by cash and very quick to find excuses for sales processes that aren’t working well.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

In my post I noted the bias in his accent comments and also called b t on his statements that Demo Days are great because “the bad companies look good” and that VCs should compete to “pay the highest price & offer the best terms.”

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

As a result, we can project into the future what our future fuel costs will be, and we can get fuel on contract at today's price, and just execute on that contract rather than try to hedge costs. That strips out the volatility, and just helps us lock in the price of fuel at the day's rate. Similarly, pilots seem to love us.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Like Steve Blank, Dave McClure, Dennis Crowley, Evan Cohen, Gary Vaynerchuk, John Price, Angelo Sotira and many, many more. I refuse to go to demo days. Not just TechStars but any demo day, really. So I promised the guys that I would come and hang out with companies well before their demo days. We’ll see.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 12, 2014

Skully is doing an introductory price of$1,399 if you should be one of the first to get the helmet when it ships in May 2015. The price goes up to $1,499 if you wait until launch to make a purchase, so save yourself the $100 and augment your riding adventures now. Open SDK – develop your own apps for SKULLY Synapse(TM).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Imagine the “typical&# deal – somebody comes into a VC’s office, they’ve never met, they’re highly referred by a friend and they’re pitching a product demo and a PPT. They might accept that a $50 million outcome will drive good returns given their small investment size, low price of entry, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

He jumped into some portfolio company exercises to help with pricing strategies, budget templates, M&A support, marketing function reviews, etc and started to show us how valuable he was to entrepreneurs. Even though my wife thinks my true mental age is still around 13, sadly I am not in this youth demo.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 29, 2013

I was just down at Demo Day for the USC Incubator. eventbrite.com/ Use the promo code FriendOfCTM for half-price admission through Sept 11! More info on the conference and the venture competition at [link] To register at the discounted price use the promo code: FriendOfCTM 1. I also have a discount code below for the event.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

The demo is a part of the firm's marketing efforts for its sedan, which it has priced at $87,900 and hopes to start delivering in Q2 of 2010. Fisker is backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Palo Alto Investors and the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), and has raised over $200M for its electric car efforts.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Investors Really Want Evidence of Traction So you built your MVP; you bring it to the investor; you demo it; and I will guarantee they will ask you: "So how many users do you have? You may have to build something out to show it working for someone to evaluate whether it really works better than what else exists.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Yesterday, there were a lots of startups who launched at the DEMO Fall event in Silicon Valley. You get the exact price for the procedure you are getting, before you go and get it done. One of the local firms that launched was Los Angeles-based Health In Reach (www.healthinreach.com). With Health In reach, that doesn't happen.

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Eric Greenspan

AUGUST 13, 2014

Here’s some clever methods to do so: When signing up for a trial or a demo, NEVER buy right away. Look at the “price per ounce” at the grocery store for the best savings. We all want to save money. Wait for the email that says “Join today and save with this coupon” or “We miss you.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals. I attended the Facebook Fund Demo day about a month ago in Palo Alto and it blew me away the pace of innovation and the focus on monetization that came out of this group.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

Give people massive price increases on most media and they’ll abandon it. Some of the interactive experiences I’ve seen in recent demos are simply mind boggling and are starting to form new opinions in my head about how we will consume big screen TV in the future (I’ll save that for a future post).

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 27, 2013

Spotlight: LA Tech is part of a quarterly demo series that will highlight the finest technology entrepreneurship in Southern California. 8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. The EA works closely with the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at UCLA.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 23, 2018

The one-day event combines onstage conversations about augmented and virtual reality with in-person demos and networking. Purchase your Early Bird tickets here for just $99 and you’ll save $100 before prices go up! Burba will be joining us at TC Sessions: AR/VR on October 18 at UCLA.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 7, 2019

“A lot of studios are asking how much we price our engine at, but we are targeting the consumer market. ” Our 9 favorite startups from Y Combinator W19 Demo Day 2. Making our own films carry so many more possibilities than simply selling a piece of software.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

After a year we played hardball and said we’d move out unless they gave us 20% off of our already low price. A small refuge from a busy day of shaking hands and demo’ing products. We switched offices to a cheap 1-year sublet of a company that had too much space during the dot-com boom.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

We will white label the system, and not only that, we’ll allow you to set your own pricing.” Before they even launched, Mike and his team started bringing in hundreds of influencers from NYC’s technology ecosystem to their office to give them a private demo. We can do better. I think I can do a lot better than Google can do.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

There will be demos, tutorials, and presentations on how to be safe.” And with similarly cheap pricing, the decision of which to use comes down to brand affinity. Instead, it’s the fierce competition from hometown startups like local favorite Bird that Lime wants to overcome through brick-and-mortar marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

Be sure to involve real people and real customers, such as GoPro cameras , with user generated demos and amazing aspirational videos. Innovative marketing content is focused wholly on healthy living and earth-conscious eating, rather than the conventional food product offerings and price.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2014

We are pleased to announce a special discount for TechZulu readers: Visit Wearable Tech LA registration site and use TECHZULU4WTLA to save 30% on ticket prices. Live demos including a demo on extreme wearables used by a trained wolf. Sports and Wearables with executives from adidas, GoPro and Olympic Champion Dick Fosbury.

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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. Customer personnel seemed to like it, and it worked, so he was totally devastated when he couldn’t sell one for a “reasonable” price in the first two months of hard work. Use focus groups.

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Eric Greenspan

AUGUST 13, 2014

Here’s some clever methods to do so: When signing up for a trial or a demo, NEVER buy right away. Look at the “price per ounce” at the grocery store for the best savings. We all want to save money. Wait for the email that says “Join today and save with this coupon” or “We miss you.

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Email Social Media Pricing Media 100

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. Customer technical personnel loved it, and it worked, so he was totally devastated when he couldn’t sell one for a “reasonable” price in the first two months of hard work. Use focus groups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2011

In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. Customer personnel seemed to like it, and it worked, so he was totally devastated when he couldn’t sell one for a “reasonable” price in the first two months of hard work. Use focus groups.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

If you want to see how this works come check out our Nov 10th event in LA and you can see TextPlus demo their iOS5 integration and how they think about the importance of working hand-in-hand with Twitter for their free text messaging apps. Stock you’re tracking goes below your purchase price? Object Communications.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The Demo unit we were shown included a battery-powered external HDMI monitor and USB wireless mouse & keyboard, allowing for a full TriCaster setup with only one power plug! TriCaster Mini is competitively priced at $5,995 base model, or with enhanced recording and remote-broadcast friendly embedded monitor for $7,995.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

With booth prices up to $9,500 , it blew my mind how vague the taglines were. One of the best TechCrunch taglines was from a company called Reesio – “Automates the entire real estate process for a flat fee of $1,000” It tells me what value the company can offer me and sets my pricing expectations. 6 Always do a demo.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Startups Apply to Demo. Helping Startups Get Exposure – Startup Demo offers a handful of startups an opportunity to showcase in an expo-style for FREE. If you have a startup you would like to showcase at Startup Demo please apply here. What: A Startup Demo event. Price: FREE. to 11:00 p.m. RSVP: [link].

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