American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2025

Nikita, our guest today on Experienced Voices, shares how the brothers have lived their ultimate dream, founding an automotive startup that will introduce in 2026 its HF-11 limited production car priced at over $1 million. The HF-11 is being honed to be the ultimate street-legal vehicle.

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Dream It

JULY 12, 2021

Typically at the really early stages, instead of a priced equity round, most startups will raise their first round using a convertible note or SAFE -- Simple Agreement for Future Equity. The discount gives them the right to convert their investment at a reduced price to what’s paid by the next round’s equity investors.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 18, 2021

Positioning your services and your products by price means that you are associating your brand with whatever competitive prices exist in the market or placing it where you might find a gap in the market at a certain price point. Typically, brands will see this gap and offer the most affordable price.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2015

When you do a convertible note with a cap that converts into the next round of funding one of the unintended consequences is that if you’re successful and raise at a larger price than your cap the early angels often get “multiple liquidation preferences” on their dollars in. The early risk is why they get a cheaper price.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

"Square, the payment technology company founded and led by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, this evening raised $243 million by pricing its initial public offering at $9 per share, which would imply an market value of around $2.9 Rowe Price and Fidelity funds who bid the company up to ridiculous valuations in their pre-IPO rounds.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 11, 2024

3x as productive as humans, which would parallel mechanical robots, how does a software company price? Building on yesterday’s post , pricing in software companies may change significantly when AI agents become the norm. This would be a significant increase in price, but the value of the software would be much higher.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

VC firms see thousands of deals and have a refined sense of how the market is valuing deals because they get price signals across all of these deals. As an entrepreneur it can feel as intimidating as going to buy a car where the dealer knows the price of every make & model of a car and you’re guessing at how much to pay.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Customers may now secure their spot taking place at one of the following global venues : Living in Space : An immersive journey into the future of space habitats, held in Paris, France, with prices starting at $19,500 per person for 3 days/4 nights.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 10, 2015

Just because the next biggest fool pays X for preferred shares, creating an implicit valuation for all the shares, doesn't mean you can either get out of it at that price or that you can be sure of the exit price. Just put your money in and hope for the best. Check your bank account in 10 years. 4) Money is a commodity.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 13, 2022

I’m incentivized to buy up as much of the company at as low a price as possible and you’re incentivized to sell as little of the company as possible by raising the price.”. The price negotiation process is pretty straightforward, and once a deal has been agreed upon we move on. Founders seem to get that.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

<== Our conclusion was that this isn’t a temporary blip that will swiftly trend-back up in a V-shaped recovery of valuations but rather represented a new normal on how the market will price these companies somewhat permanently. When you look at how much median valuations were driven up in the past 5 years alone it’s bananas.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 20, 2022

The carrying cost is offset by buying 2023 materials at 2022 pricing.”. Increased costs and escalating lead times have impacted our profits negatively, but we have worked with customers to hold off on price increases as long as possible.”. We had a slight price increase, but our clients supported us. Adjust for margin impact. “In

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Red Rocket

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

And the sellers of those products bring out their best prices during these holiday seasons, trying to capture has much market share against their competitors as they can. But, if you are sacrificing material bottom-line profits by slashing prices in the process, why play that game? But the question I ask is: why?

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The Seraf Compass

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It’s unfortunate that I didn’t get good tax planning advice at the time, because if I had, it would have saved me a significant amount on my tax bill when the company was acquired for a very significant price!

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 15, 2015

That's why I was a big fan of the congestion pricing setup that Mike Bloomberg proposed a few years ago. It may or may not be necessary to have Uber in Manhattan, but then again, it's not totally clear to me that *any* cabs are necessary in Manhattan--or cars in general.

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Dream It

APRIL 21, 2020

Red Flag #2 : Round prices equity too high or too low. You should price your round in a way that gives both founders and investors meaningful ownership. Founders can use the “20% ratio” as a good rule of thumb for pricing equity. This framework helps founders position their fundraising targets and avoid red flags with investors.

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The Seraf Compass

JUNE 25, 2020

Both are a contractual right to buy a certain amount of stock at some point in the future, at a price agreed upon now. One of the less understood and seldom used instruments in angel investing is the stock warrant. Warrants are essentially the same as the more familiar stock option.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 21, 2025

But this dynamic, for certain classes of companies, also means that startup pricing is often enthusiastic, optimistic and gives the company ‘credit’ for execution against forward looking plans quarters or years into the future.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

If electricity could be transferred like WiFi but as safe as a soundwave we use on pregnant women’s bellies and at a price-point that was attractive this is a multi-billion market. Could we produce this at cost?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In the case of MakeSpace we had huge initial successes in New York City as Rahul led the scaling of our drivers, our trucks and our warehouses and we figured out the right price points to beat the local competition. presented pricing challenges when compared to a whole new set of offline competitors we didn’t know well.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The Price of Failure Is Much Higher. When working with friends, the price of failure is great. If they don’t define roles, then nobody will be angry, right? Beware, though, because a lack of hierarchy in a business can lead to its failure. Remember that about half of all businesses fail during the first two years of their existence.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 28, 2022

8) Don’t feel the need to pay the highest price. Offering a crazy price to win the deal scares off most smart entrepreneurs. Offering a fair price that is in the range is what you need to do. The entreprener will be watching. I assure you of that. They will be wondering why you are so aggressive.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 10, 2020

My response to that is “let’s do a priced round, we can use a standard financing form we both like, we won’t use a lawyer on our side, and we can close in a week.” We can do priced rounds as quickly and inexpensively as SAFE notes. Everything else is pretty standard anyway. That is not right.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2022

We may see price inflation of consumer goods and labor too, although that is less clear. When economies recover and interest rates rise, the air will come out of the asset price bubbles that have built up and the go go markets will hit the brakes. Well, it happened in 2022.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 3, 2019

First, price discipline doesn’t work in overly competitive markets. When there are too many funds in a market, keeping your entry price reasonable is going to get you shut out of a lot of deals. There are two reasons. Second, you can only get so many dollars into “cheap” seed shares. Here’s a very plain vanilla model.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Jumping between tabs, comparing prices, and hunting for coupons was a real hassle. So many people overspend online simply because they don’t have the tools to compare prices easily. Our AI engine goes beyond simple price comparisons. I was constantly frustrated by the time it took to find the best deals online.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 23, 2020

In other situations, the cost rose dramatically from the original negotiated price, or the supplies had been snatched up by another facility. Sometimes the team moves forward with verbal pricing agreements instead of waiting on written contracts to expedite the process and get the supplies to medical personnel faster.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 18, 2022

The auditors try to get us to mark our portfolio up to reflect “market prices” but we prefer to keep our portfolio marked below market prices, particularly in times of market froth. We have a few rules and I would like to share them: – Be conservative. – Get Ahead of Market Pullbacks.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2022

Get wholesale pricing. There are often certain limitations involved, but this will often give you the best price when buying a large quantity. PMS ink, four-color process, foil stamping, and embossing all create radically different looks—and they can also have very different prices, depending on how many colors your design contains.

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The Seraf Compass

OCTOBER 18, 2023

You take a sudden interest in the wellbeing of your company and the factors which affect its stock price. You feel suddenly part of something bigger than just earning a paycheck. You daydream about how various financial scenarios might play out.

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