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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

It’s often said that you shouldn’t talk about price during customer development interviews. Your product is designed with natural tripwires to trigger other pricing ( Freemium model ), or not (business model left as an exercise to your future self). Even bootstrapped businesses can make this work (e.g.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

Business Model I would like to propose that in addition to team, product, and market, there is actually a fourth, equally important, core element of startups, which is the need for a viable business model. For more on the topic of Viral Growth, refer to my blog post on that topic here.)

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Consumer approach to software for business users. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Page 4: Business Model. Free product.

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How I invest as a pre-seed investor?

Hippoland

2) What is the business model and the potential unit economics? Certain investors tend to gravitate towards certain business models. I know nothing about viral marketing. I’ll pass on those companies, because I don’t understand these types of businesses well enough to get involved.

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How I invest as a pre-seed investor?

Hippoland

2) What is the business model and the potential unit economics? Certain investors tend to gravitate towards certain business models. I know nothing about viral marketing. I’ll pass on those companies, because I don’t understand these types of businesses well enough to get involved.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you. Sales cycles matter though. Business customers, depending on the problem, are less price sensitive than consumers. Sales cycle, as a consideration, also works the opposite way.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you. Sales cycles matter though. Business customers, depending on the problem, are less price sensitive than consumers. Sales cycle, as a consideration, also works the opposite way.

Founder 48