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Real Startups Never, Ever Discount Their Prices

InfoChachkie

Avoid a simple pricing mistake which could sink your startup. Vendors often respond by discounting their prices at the 11th hour, in the hopes a lower price will spur a purchase. However, if you never offer price discounts to anyone, you can resist all such requests by deferring to your company “policy.”

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E3 2014 Press Conference Overview & Our Grade For Each

Tech Zulu Event

Thankfully gamers and the media were able to experience what would be coming in the next couple days at E3 and beyond from Microsoft, Ubisoft, EA Games, and Sony’s press conferences. Here’s a quick look and grades of each of the press conferences. Microsoft E3 Press Conference. EA Games E3 Press Conference. Grade: B- .

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So, do you have that entrepreneurial DNA?

Berkonomics

I took pictures of neighbor children, developing them in my bedroom closet, selling the prints to those neighborhood families. Email readers, continue here…] What drove my brother and me to perform, to risk so much, to skirt bankruptcy, to press on again and again? The price for the franchise in 1953 was $50,000.

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6 Ways To Get Credible Data To Support A New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. Explore municipal development resources. Peruse company reports from your business domain.

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Bio Roundup: Drug Pricing, Cystic Fibrosis Showdown, Myovant & More

Xconomy

. —Two Vertex rivals touted early-stage data at the NACFC conference: Belgium-based Galapagos , which is developing its own triple combination regimen, and Netherlands-based ProQr Therapeutics (NASDAQ: PRQR ), which is advancing an RNA-based CF drug sprayed into the lungs. THIS WEEK IN DRUG PRICING…. billion last year.

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7 Keys To Scaling Your Startup To Be The Next Unicorn

Startup Professionals Musings

Switch your focus from product development to sales. Working with the media is required, both social as well as the press, through public relations and internal channels. Now is the time to start buying your competitors, rather than just crushing them, or trying to develop enough new products internally to overrun them.

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

I have experienced many first-time entrepreneurs with too much hubris if fund-raising came easily and press was fawning and employees joined in droves and customer adoption has been rapid. In London when founders failed they were ostracized in the press and culturally I believe it became harder to raise capital.

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