TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 4, 2018

As you might expect from the name, Freeletics operates its mobile fitness coaching app on a freemium model, with tiered pricing beginning at $11.99 The app, which offers fitness content and AI-powered training plans tailored to individual users, initially focused on Germany but has since grown in popularity across Europe and in the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

I recently found the classic sales training book “ Bootstrap Selling The Sandler Way ,” by Bill Morrison, who has 20 years in sales leadership roles, and I was amazed at how many of his sales lessons are great lessons for new entrepreneurs as well. Your price and their value are not the same thing. No pain usually means no sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. You can be pissed off, but I don’t set prices. That’s stupid.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I used an analogy I heard from Michael Dougherty (founder of Jelli) recounting what First Round Capital told him, “sometimes you’re on the local train and sometimes you’re on the express train. The express train might get you there faster but there are no options to get off along the way. VC is different.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2013

One of the toughest decisions for a startup is how to price their product or service. The alternatives range from giving it away for free, to pricing based on costs, to charging what the market will bear (premium pricing). In this more traditional product pricing model, the price is set at two to five times the product cost.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

I researched the pricing of the car at TrueCar – not because we’re an investor – but because it gives you complete price transparency over what other people in your area paid for a car. “Invoice price” is an equally meaningless marketing tool. As many air bags as possible. But I digress.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Cornerstone OnDemand said its new Cornerstone for Salesforce directly embeds learning management into Salesforce.com, giving sales and service firms direct access to training from within that tool. Pricing on the new software was not announced.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

I call this “arming & aiming&# your sales teams where you need to standardize both the assignment of territories, industries & accounts (aiming) as well as the process of selling, the collateral, the legal agreements & pricing. We moved toward more standardized pricing (e.g. less negotiating & haggling).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

” The post talked about how to find the lowest acceptable price & terms in a deal through testing. You’ve got to have some wiggle room on price and on terms. She got you to drop price and include more licenses for free. She got you to offer free storage and discounted training. Wants their pound of flesh.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 23, 2010

Citrix GotoTraining is the firm's online training product. Among capabilities of the new feature are ability to record and playback audio sessions, and monthly or quarterly pricing and rates. Tags: citrix online gototraining phone training saas software. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 13, 2015

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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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

We spoke with CEO and co-founder Spencer Price to learn more about the company. Spencer Price: Halla is the only software company to dynamically profile human tastes so we can help people make better choices. Spencer Price: That's a fair question. Spencer Price: It's a bit of a circuitous route. What is Halla?

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 9, 2019

There is an increasingly advantageous global marketplace available with highly trained practitioners offering quality healthcare solutions at affordable prices and, although medical and dental tourism is a safe and cost-efficient solution, the current market is extremely fragmented and challenging to navigate.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

Thinkful , a New York company, says it has started accepting applications from people in Los Angeles for its "living stipend" program, which pays students $1500 a month to pay for things like rent, gas, and food while they take the company's technology training--in exchange for a portion of their salaries when they graduate. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2020

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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

This might mean helping customers buy traffic, arb’ing deals, helping with RTB pricing or trading, etc. If asked to drop price we would often counter by agreeing to small price decreases in exchange for an agreement to do case studies to drive future business. rollout support. integration with other systems. configuration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. Train and coach continuously. Companies with great service routinely spend 3% to 5% of salaries training team members – experienced as well as new. Know your customers intimately.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2013

You can’t just name your own price.” When he was 7-8 my wife used to sit down with him to do homework and train him the importance of getting it done early and well. ” Great sales people are trained to “ask for the order.” Tell them I’ll stay if they’ll give it to me for 120 Euros.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

The firm said its OurTube product is aimed at enterprises and others who want a private service to share and view videos, for such uses as marketing, sales, HR training, and more. Pricing on the new product was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

We had to do intense training sessions. When you’re a start-up it is far easier to cut your teeth on companies that are easy to serve, not as demanding yet can afford to pay you fair prices for your product. We had to promise really steep service SLAs and help desk hours. In short, servicing the elephants consumed us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2021

In fact, our education and training to logically associate related concepts reduces our ability to add the creative side, even though we were all born without that bias. Many businesses have found that raising the price of a product to give it status can win more customers than a price war. Think the unthinkable.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Cornerstone OnDemand said the new product uses machine learning and Cornerstone's data set, to help companies better recruit, train, and manage people. Pricing on the new tool was not announced.

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socalTECH

MAY 15, 2017

YayYo said it specifically launched to counter the daily surge pricing from such services as Uber and Lyft, and that its rides will come from a "professionally trained driver" and such features as onboard security cameras in brand new vehicles.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2013

You get access to luxury at a discount price. Our is unique inventory, packaged with the best web pricing. That allows us to discount those to extraordinary prices, so that the inventory we sell is actually Luxury Link''s own inventory. That lets us be super aggressive in pricing. I came out of that with two things.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2018

The Dodgers said that the venture will initially launch in conjunction with the GBG Training Academy in Redondo Beach, which will become the first "Dodgers Training Academy", powered by E|L1; the group says it will power additional Dodgers Training Academies in the greater LA area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Don’t let your service be viewed as a commodity.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Assuming that you are the elected or self-assigned negotiator, the last thing you want is to have them in the room while you haggle over price. There’s the sale of a company, where as a board member, I asked the CEO to name his asking price and then go home and wait the result. And yet, lawyers are trained in the art of negotiation.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to AeroVironment, the $8,584,734 firm-fixed-price U.S. Department of Defense Foreign Military Sales contract will go towards purchase of its Puma 3 AE unmanned aircraft systems, training, and support to an allied nation. military sales contract from an un-named, U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. Fixed price bidding is the only effective outsourcing model.” Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming. Fair compensation is the lowest price we can negotiate.” Be flexible.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

hiring / training / motivating staff, setting up sales compensation programs, implement ing and enforcing a sales policy) are not consistent with the skills you need in your company at this stage. He felt that we didn’t price correctly and he didn’t want to see customers until he had a grip on it. WTF!! ?? !!

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Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2011

Even with the usual discount of 10%, the margins on hardware were high, especially when applied to prices that exceeded $30,000 per sale. . In the early eighties, IBM helped the PC become a tool of the office, and the product crossed over from use by early adopters to the mass market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2021

One question I often hear from solo entrepreneurs, and she addresses directly, is “How do I set the right price for my services?” The simple answer is to balance supply and demand, but here are some specific considerations that she and I both proclaim as key factors: Use project pricing rather than hourly rates.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Today we find out when commuter trains are late or roads are closed because our friends or local news agencies Tweet them to us. In the future trains will auto tweet and potentially update displays in train stations or airplanes can tell us when they will arrive at the gate in stead of us talking with the uninformed gate representative.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Nick Desai: FitOrbit delivers a proven solution for fitness and weight loss over the Internet, for the first time, at a price people can afford. With FitOrbit, we bring real, one-to-one, human-based personal training and meal planning to the Internet for the first time. We've also built a variety of pricing options.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

The fundamental problem with banner ads is a condition called “banner blindness&# meaning that our eyes are really quickly trained to look at what is most relevant on the page – the content we want to see. It shows that our eyes are trained to focus on the text, not the ads. But even for the consumer reality sets in.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Despite the proliferation of entrepreneurial courses within Business Administration programs, business schools are essentially vocational training grounds for consultants and investment bankers. Five reasons many MBAs struggle at startups are as follows: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2021

Here are my recommendations for training and managing your team to keep their delivery memorable for customers, as well as profitable for your business: Hire team members who enjoy customer interaction. Provide training, tools, and required decision authority. That approach still is meaningful today.

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