InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

However, in the long run, entrepreneurs always benefit from delivering Maximum Utility for a fair price. Perhaps in part due to its dominant market share, WebEx adopted telecom-style pricing, which effectively penalized their users. WebEx’s predatory pricing made it vulnerable to a new entrant. Arbitrage Is Fleeting.

Entrepreneur 225

Entrepreneur SaaS Pricing Cloud Computing 225

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Competitors tend to focus on price and other variations to existing offerings. For example, Facebook added WhatsApp as a cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service to enhance the self-sustaining growth their social media platform before any downturn.

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Examples IP Acquisition Social Media 99

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Chefs are beginning to offer peer-to-peer dining platforms or cooperatives.

Commerce 98

Commerce Social Media Platform Class 98

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

In a bear market executives are paid to: consolidate the number of contracts and renegotiate prices. A seed deal hasn’t already been “priced up” to a range where a new investor might be concerned about the valuation relative to performance. Valuations may have changed and “price discovery” in private markets is harder to determine.

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socalTECH

MAY 6, 2019

To fix that problem, Los Angeles-based Coozie (coozieoudoors.com) offers up a different optiona way to rent gear at a fraction of purchase price. We partner with premium outdoor brands, and rent equipment at 15 percent of the retail price. We allow them to get access to that gear at a fraction of that price. What do you do?

Startup 113

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Specifically, two high school seniors in LA, Dillon Rosenblatt and Tyler Makhani, recently built out an app called Tutors , a platform for on demand tutoring. However, the two founders think these platforms are lacking in one crucial field: flexibility. That’s right, I’m referring to high school students.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

For example, everyone would agree that a cure for cancer is a worthy solution, if you can show evidence that it works, and can be replicated and sold for a rational cost and price in the market today. Educated customers ready and able to pay for the solution. A new easier to use social network may not get anyone excited.

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.Net Examples Customer Custom 73

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 3, 2013

If you can make it out tonight tickets are still available: Featuring tech demonstrations for new apps and platforms, the Civic Innovation Showcase will highlight 7 Los Angeles area start-ups (and Hub LA members!) iSocialite by Dreamware – A mobile phone platform that helps businesses engage and monetize their audiences.

Los Angeles 88

Los Angeles Mobile Startup Platform 88

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Following graduate school, he worked in Film Finance and Sales at CAA, Creative Development at Vuguru (Michael Eisner’s multi-platform studio), and Content Partnerships at Blip Networks. Students can also attend live local workshops or consult with individual teachers directly at a higher price point. Take us through your features?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2015

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Chefs are beginning to offer peer-to-peer dining platforms or cooperatives.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Commerce Social Media Platform 111

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 26, 2010

Because if you’re truly that early / novel there’s a good chance that you’re too early and will spend lots of time / money educating the market. Often they are things like: functionally complete product, platform coverage, price, intuitive UI, geographic coverage or some other way of slicing the competition.

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Venture Capital Slides Competition Education 313

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

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. Enter the light bulb, which was that this was a real opportunity to create a new platform, which can facilitate connecting experts with users. Who are your other cofounders?

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Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

For today's interview, we talked with San Diego-based ShowUHow (www.showuhow.com), a firm which is providing both content and a software platform which allows e-commerce retailers to provide video instruction guides on the products they carry. Manufacturers have quite a bit of pressure from the top end in pricing. READ MORE>>.

Guide 113

Guide Training Platform Product 113

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 15, 2016

Four entrepreneurs share their observations and predictions for the machine revolution; exploring the advancements in tech with a crossover into finance, education, e-commerce and art. Understanding students’ challenges and emotions means that educators can tailor their approach to boost engagement levels and overall academic performance.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Education Commerce 40

SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

One of his companies - Gluecode - was sold to IBM for a pretty good price. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license.

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Southern California CTO Coach CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

That business includes our main registrar platform, which supports 20,000 resellers around the world, and also includes such acquisition as we''ve done such as name.com, domain auctions with Namejet, and a bunch of other activities. We''re also partnering with companies like Donuts to provide a platform to host their registry.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

I can’t comment on its stock price – I’m not a public market analyst. It might be in online game platforms solving the problem of entertaining people. But what about education? To do so you must truly provide value that changes the way that end-consumers do something in their lives that will persist.

Startup 309

Startup Cloud Computing Venture Capital Marketing 309

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2016

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Chefs are beginning to offer peer-to-peer dining platforms or cooperatives.

Marketing 52

Marketing Commerce Social Media Entrepreneur 52

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2012

The typical startup cannot afford a massive ad campaign to educate users as to its value proposition. We debated the merits of releasing two products, one at a lower price with fewer features, but we ultimately decided to release a single version of GoToMyPC, with a highly limited feature set. . 7) Keep It Stupidly Simple, Smarty. "The

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

The company also educates people about their rights on capture data when interacting with law enforcement. DatavizVR is the world’s first big data analytics and visualization virtual and augmented reality platform. Price: $1.99 Once uploaded, the company safeguards the data in their secure cloud. DatavizVR (Austin, TX).

Startup 79

Startup Mentor Platform Help 79

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Two Bit Circus combines engineering, education, and amusement to create physical marvels fueled by technology. Cookbook Cafe is the new DIY publishing platform from L.A.-based The EA works closely with the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at UCLA. An online marketplace for legal services.

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UCLA Santa Monica Mobile Web 97

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

We know language education is a huge market, with 1/7 of people around the world learning a new language. Something we didn’t know, mainstay education programs have < 1% course completion. Famebit is the world’s first full service platform to connect brands and marketers to Youtube content creators.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

The conversation moves into Zeroblock’s upcoming plans to implement trading API’s, a robust front-end interface for trading, as well as goals to create a standardized protocol in connecting different exchanges (thereby leveling out bitcoin prices across the board). Trading platforms. The ultimate plan? Setting Up 2014.

Startup 104

Startup Venture Capital Draper Invest 104

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

As the end of the year approaches, it’s a good time for every startup to assess the metrics, technology, and platforms they’re using to manage the business. Sales data needs to be correlated to advertising campaigns, price changes, seasonal forces, competitive actions, and other costs of sales. Monthly profit or loss.

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Metrics Technical Review Sales Customer 100

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 11, 2022

To even make marginal improvement, one would need to thread the needle of education and accessibility — and perhaps place compassion over profits and growth. The content platform was maintained, but the company’s focus pivoted to selling fertility benefits to self-insured employers. Gina Bartasi, founder of Kindbody.

Help 161

Help Startup Technical Review Education 161

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Milo Sindell: Knowledge Genie is a software platform that anybody can use to capture, package, and publish what they know into an interactive online software application. Our online publishing platform allows users to monetize and share what they know. Can you talk about the pricing and how the business model works?

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

As social media becomes a platform for online extremists, valid questions regarding freedom of speech, monitoring and censorship have arisen. The industry will continue to invest heavily in educating people and convincing them to try internet security products (free versions & life-time trials). 10GB for what 5GB costs today).

Commerce 40

Commerce Mobile Technical Review Google 40

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Defy Ventures is a program that aims to educate people in prison to become better humans upon graduation. Even those have a price in our society … Brock Turner raped an unconscious woman and was released in 3 months. I wasn’t raised badly — I was well educated. And they didn’t want pity. They wanted opportunity.

Writing 150

Writing Startup Design Training 150

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Sangster lives in Los Angeles and is actively involved in improving early childhood education. Event Details.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Our marketplace is organized like a used item marketplace, like Amazon or eBay, or Craiglist, in that a seller lists an item, picks a cause, and sets a price. I spent six years in e-commerce, developing e-commerce platforms, and am pretty familiar with that. It's just like Craigslist, except the money goes to support causes.

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UCLA Startup Ideas Help 256

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2012

Your reasoning will inform what platforms you should choose, what target audience, what feature-set is necessary, and what your eventual marketing & personality should be. Niche apps can usually demand a higher price point because there isn’t much competition out there. If it’s in a niche market, that’s even better.

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Marketing Startup Software Review Competition 97

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Price: $15 (Early Bird). Dinesh Ravishanker , CEO & Co-Founder at CallFire. to 9:30 p.m. RSVP: AGENDA.

Tech Coast Angels 96

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In 1991, Bill started Knowledge Adventure, an educational software publisher that grew to be the third largest educational software publisher in the world and was eventually sold to Cendant Software and is now a division of Havas Interactive, which is owned by Vivendi. Price: $25 (Early Bird). Event Details. to 10:00 p.m.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Joey Flores – Co-Founder and CEO of Earbits. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.).

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, education, MBA. . Name Your Price: Influencing Customer's Purchasing Decisions. Understanding the effect of perceived discounts, multiple product levels, price anchoring, and other. Entrepreneurism / Monetization economics, human behaviour, pricing. . Frank Gruber, TECH cocktail.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2012

So the most obvious pivot for them is to repurpose the technology platform, to make it solve a more pressing, more marketable, or just a more solvable problem as you learn from customers. One pivot is to change your focus from a premium price, customized solution, to a low price commoditized solution. Technology pivot.

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