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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tomasz Tunguz

Price low to minimize adoption friction, grow quickly, and then move up-market after developing broad adoption. Skimming is less common in the software world because few startups develop a product at launch that will be accepted by the most sophisticated customers (and those willing to pay prices that generate the greatest margin).

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How to Build a Team That Can Navigate Your Business Through Difficult Times

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Every day, we meet on Zoom not only to discuss pressing issues impacting our business, but also to bond over books we’re reading and television shows we’re watching. Meanwhile, it’s incumbent on you as the CEO to create an environment that encourages action-oriented behavior.

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

Both Sides of the Table

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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Greece’s Viva Wallet raises $80M for its neobank targeting small business merchants

TechCrunch

Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings more personalization and often better deals into the equation. billion ($1.8

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The Future of Hospitality is Here

Revolution

and by substantial amounts of invested capital in formal amenities required by incumbent brands that are frequently cost centers rather than profit centers (lobby restaurant, room service, etc.). The real estate trends have also shifted in parallel to accommodate these preferences.

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Bringing AI to the Masses

Andreessen Horowitz

You could either spend, you know, you raise some venture funding, you could either spend some of that funding on hiring out a whole team and developing all those competencies, or you can spend that on making your model even better. There’s knowledge that people have in their heads that is not on the internet and is not in any book.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Psychedelic biotech, Gogoro’s SPAC, H-1Bs for Ukrainians

TechCrunch

Launched in 1987, the company provides hundreds of transportation and hospitality providers with inventory management and booking services. With plans to raise a $25 million fund and more than $15 million already invested, PsyMed Ventures focuses on early-stage startups developing psychedelic therapeutics.