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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Chris calls this the “at Pricing” multiple, and you should notice that is is much lower than the $VEEV multiple of 18X. If the founder (or any member of Party A) participates in the IPO, they do NOT even receive the issue price. He also says they need to be “must own” names. Unfortunately, the real story is even worse.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

No, I am the troll who who stood proudly on the APC until a man who was nothing more than an egotistical and maniacal bully named Clifford Hicks proved once and for all that IMVU only cared about IMVU - and not its community. It's nice to "see" that human beings are actually behind a name. I'm not just any troll.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

www.chubbybrain.com

11 – Pricing Issues. Pricing is one part science, 10 parts art. And a dark art according to a large number of startups which failed and who attributed product pricing that was too high or too low to make money. | Opiniator says: September 26, 2011 at. [.] Name (required). So what does this teach us?

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After Facebook's IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth

www.theverge.com

Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all hoarding mountains of cash, and Mark Zuckerberg has shown that he isn’t afraid to put his newfound riches to work, with numerous acquisition in the past few months (Instagram, Glancee, and Face.com to name a few). Capital will be harder to come by, and founders will be more open to sell.

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