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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Price is not an exercise in maximizing some micro-economic supply/demand curve, slapped post-facto onto the product. most shared hosting companies), but they only make interesting money at large scale (by definition, because it takes over 8000 customers to make only $1m/yr in revenue), which takes a long time to grow.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely. Once again, this is an asset against which the marginal cost to host a dog is near zero.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” These companies get the prevention-promotion balance right by evaluating every aspect of their business model—making near-term changes that reduce costs now and after demand returns (unlike layoffs). Tim Stewart, trsdigital.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. Thanks to Steven Randall, Vonya Global ! #8-Provide It was in year 2000 and my friend and I were young and ambitious. While I loved hosting on television, I loved cars even more. 29- Charge for my demanded free services. Photo Credit: Steven Randall.

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Top 20 U.S. Tech Conferences Every Startup And SMB Should Check Out

YoungUpstarts

By attending, you’ll make connections with 80+ of the world’s top social media pros (plus 2000 of your peers) and you’ll discover amazing ideas that’ll transform your social media marketing. Attend the world’s largest social media marketing conference of the year! TechCrunch Disrupt NYC.

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The Top 10 Career Experts For Working Moms

YoungUpstarts

The women to follow are CEOs, career experts, coaches, and entrepreneurs who are all familiar with the challenges that moms (and dads, too) face when trying to balance the demands of their careers with the responsibilities of being a parent. Maria Bailey : Maria Bailey knows a thing or two about maintaining work/life balance.

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Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 Years?

Ben's Blog

This approach has already lead to some stunning results: In 2011, we hosted over 600 portfolio presentations to corporate customers and partners at our office in Menlo Park. These presentations resulted in more than 3,000 introductions between portfolio companies and prospective Fortune 500/Global 2000 senior executives.