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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Or seen a review of an iPhone app hung up on pricing trivialities: “It would be pretty good at $0.99, but it’s not worth $1.99.” Requires venture funding because you have no income, and if you’re successful you’ll need lots of people and tech to run the business. simple enough to be self-service).

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

—?and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several I recruited a top-flight engineer and serial entrepreneur to build our MVP, on equity? If you can bootstrap your business, it’s not a true venture-backed business. Bootstrapping is AMAZING! Of course I do.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

If you're capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you'll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country - more so in some areas. It's now been about three years since I joined the fray as an entrepreneur and tech blogger. Want to start up in France?

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6 ways to monetize a user-based business model

The Next Web

We also have advanced, paid tools for agencies who need enterprise features that are more technically difficult to build and therefore are not going to be given away by a competitor anytime soon.”. This is common in B2C apps (Facebook, for example), but it’s still new in B2B apps like Wave Accounting. – Shane Snow , Contently.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Loading… Tech. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Mossberg Reviews the iPhone 5. Engineering & Accounting Svcs. Consumer Services (B2C). Web Design/Tech Services. » More. » More. Loading… New York. » More.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently.

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