Sun.Aug 31, 2014

article thumbnail

How Do You Select A Revenue Model For Your Startup?

Startup Professionals Musings

'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). The implications of the decision you make are huge, defining your brand image, your funding requirements, and your long-term business viability.

Revenue 287
article thumbnail

Open For Business: Everything You Need To Know About Brick And Mortar Marketing

YoungUpstarts

'by Peter Decker, owner and operator of BizCardXpress. If you run a traditional retail store, you might feel just a little overwhelmed by the fact that online businesses are snapping up more and more of the market share in your industry. It’s almost a given – but it doesn’t have to spell the end for your company. Many consumers still like the ability to walk into a physical store and touch merchandise.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What you need to know about Bangkok’s startup ecosystem

The Next Web

'This post originally appeared on Geektime. Situated in Southeast Asia, a section of the continent that is rich in natural resources, Thailand attracts investors and travelers en mass every year. The cheap living costs make it the perfect place to bootstrap and the investment culture is truly blossoming. Adding to these attractive foreign entrepreneurism qualities is the fact that Thailand is also a great place to live for foreigners.

Thailand 164
article thumbnail

Photo

Bryce Dot VC

''

55
article thumbnail

Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

article thumbnail

Online teaching’s the new blogging: How to turn your followers into course buyers

The Next Web

'A.J. O’Connell is an author, teacher and journalist with 10 years of experience covering education and culture for local newspapers. This article is excerpted from “The Blogging Entrepreneurs Using Online Classes To Engage Audiences” on the SkilledUp blog. These days, new services make almost as easy to build your own course as Blogger and WordPress made publishing ten years ago.

Cofounder 149
article thumbnail

[Infographic] 10 Amazingly Awesome Warren Buffet Quotes To Live By

YoungUpstarts

'We’re unashamed fans of legendary investor Warren Buffet, and for good reason too. After all, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway is not only one of the richest men in the world, he definitely knows at least something about building and running businesses, as well as investing in them. Just consider this statistic: Buffett made $12.7 billion alone last year, or almost $37 million every single day (which is more than most people earn in an entire lifetime).

Omaha 165