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Monday, November 23, 2009

Learn to price your software product

For my visitor attention - very interesting article found, - just simple explanation HOW TO price your software product.


[ by Dharmesh Shah - OnStartups ]


I’m going to open this article with a short (and true) story. I officially kicked off my marketing software company, HubSpot, about 17 months ago. If you’ve read my blog for any period of time, you likely know that I’m a big beliver in the “charge early, charge often” mantra. As it turns out, in order to “charge early”, you have to figure out what you’re going to charge people. That is, you have to have a price for your product. Thankfully, both my co-founder (Brian Halligan) and I had recently graduated from a top 5 MBA program. And, it wasn’t just any top 5 program — it was MIT. You know, that place where science and math and uber-geeky analytical stuff happens. So, you’d think that when it came time to figure out a price for our product, we’d really dig in, do some heavy-duty analysis, some really hard thinking and come up with a relatively well thought-out price...



Read here full story - How To Price Software Without Just Rolling The Dice


Monday, September 07, 2009

What is the right age to found venture ...?

[by Vivek Wadhwa - TechCrunch ]
Research that my team conducted, based on a survey of 549 entrepreneurs in high-growth industries, showed that the average founder of a high-growth company launched his venture at age 40. We also learned that these founders are likely to be married and have two or more kids. They typically have six to ten years of work experience and real-world ideas. They simply got tired of working for others and wanted to rise above their middle-class heritage...

Read here full story - When It Comes To Founding Successful Startups, Old Guys Rule


Sunday, September 06, 2009

50 things that are being killed by the internet

[ By Matthew Moore - Telegraph.co.uk ]

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Your lunchbreak
Did you leave your desk today? Or snaffle a sandwich while sending a few personal emails and checking the price of a week in Istanbul?
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Interesting article and discussion even more ... >>

Monday, August 31, 2009

The long lost formula for start-up success. No, really

[By Nigel Eccles - Hubdub Ltd]

You know the story. A group of friends come up with an amazing product idea, lock themselves away, code like demons, eat pizza, drink coffee and several months later come out with a prototype. The prototype is good enough to convince some investors, they raise money, build the full product, launch it, users love it, product gets traction, acquirers circle and then founders exit to a large pay-off. They then give media interviews which gets summarised into something that sounds like...


Read here full story - The long lost formula for start-up success. No, really

Friday, August 14, 2009

A tool for building your Elevator Pitch