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8 Creative Pricing Strategies Most Startups Overlook

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to new business owners, I’m accustomed to seeing primarily the simple traditional product pricing strategies , usually driven by competitor prices, or cost plus a reasonable margin. I often wonder whether you as the entrepreneur have worked as hard on your pricing strategy as you have on your innovative solution.

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Ozobot Opens Preorders For Educational Robot

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Redondo Beach-based Ozobot , a developer of minature, educational robots, said this morning that it has begun pre-orders of its product. The robot is priced at $39, and is expected to ship in October; the company also said it hopes to make an iOS app for the robot available soon. READ MORE>>.

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Helping Consumers Name Their Own Price For Products, With Greentoe

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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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Strategic Pricing

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, May 14, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Strategic Pricing. Learn how to develop pricing tactics to increase profits and position against competitors, assess pricing opportunities, capture value, understand the implications of product and market life cycles, and determine how and when to stem price erosion.

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How ZendyHealth Is Adding Price Transparency To Healthcare

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Los Angeles-based ZendyHealth (www.zendyhealth.com) thinks it has figured out a way to help both patients and doctors by helping connect patients to doctors and specific procedures, with upfront pricing. It's an on-demand, name your own price service. There's a complete lack of pricing transparency.

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Caltech, Fullstack Team On Online Cybersecurity Program

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A division of Pasadena-based Caltech , the Caltech Center for Technology and Management Education (Caltech CTME), is teaming up with Fullstack Academy to offer up a cyber training program online, Fullstack said on Tuesday. Pricing on the new program was not announced; Fullstack said the program does not require Caltech enrollment.

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Mattel, NetEase In Mobile Games Joint Venture

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El Segundo-based Mattel , and Chinese Internet technology and video game developer NetEase , said this morning that the two are in a new joint venture to public mobile games and education apps. Financial arrangements of the joint venture were not announced. Financial arrangements of the joint venture were not announced.