Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Price Ratios & Why They Matter Every subscription business eventually figures out the monthly to annual plan pricing trick. The trick is to figure out how long your average monthly user retains for and then price your annual plan to be 1–2 months more than that. Noom’s price ratio of 2.99 Go make more money.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

The lure of subscription pricing is the guarantee of recurring revenue for your business. Contrary to popular belief, subscription pricing doesn’t work because of the lower price point that a monthly installment allows. Why subscription pricing works. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Luca , a startup building price planning and prediction tools for retailers, today announced that it closed a $2.5 Luca was co-founded by Tanvi Surti and Yonah Mann, who worked together on Uber’s dynamic pricing team. Luca was co-founded by Tanvi Surti and Yonah Mann, who worked together on Uber’s dynamic pricing team.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Inside the rapid rise of usage-based pricing. Usage-based pricing (UBP) has quickly gone from fringe to mainstream in SaaS. But achieving faster revenue growth isn’t as simple as just changing pricing. Freemium isn’t a trend — it’s the future of SaaS. Image Credits: OpenView Partners.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The rest of the purchase price was concocted from a brew of zero-coupon bonds (where the face value is many times the invested amount until the reduced cost bonds mature thirty years later), and borrowing using the target company’s accounts receivable and other assets as collateral for a loan to purchase the company. What power!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

In a follow-up, he shares four tactics teams can use to gather, analyze and leverage customer data to take the guesswork out of pricing decisions. “When the time comes to make decisions about product packaging and pricing, the first place you turn to should be the metering pipeline for historical usage data,” he writes.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

One of the most common pricing questions we get from late-stage SaaS companies is: should we switch to a usage-based pricing model (also known as consumption-based pricing)? But just because usage-based pricing has worked for other companies doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll work for yours. How will you compensate your reps?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models. For its first five years in business, HubSpot offered three subscription packages ranging in price from $3,000 to $18,000 per year. So in 2011, they introduced usage-based pricing. Kyle Poyar. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Has usage-based pricing (UBP) gone mainstream? Out of the nearly 600 SaaS companies which responded, 45% say they are using this flexible pricing model, up from 34% in 2020. We talked to OpenView operating partner Kyle Poyar , who co-authored the firm’s 2021 State of Usage-Based Pricing Report with partner Sanjiv Kalevar.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 7, 2022

But no relationship exists between the Nasdaq’s price level & multiples. The data suggests the market has attained a pricing floor. I can’t ascertain how record fundraising inflows into private equity funds might bolster these prices, but the billions burning holes in PE wallets must impel some activity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

According to media reports , food-delivery giant DoorDash priced its IPO at $102 per share, ahead of its final IPO pricing range of $90 to $95 per share. And at a price far above its raised range, it has more cash than it probably hoped for. CNBC calculates DoorDash’s valuation to be $38.7 billion on a diluted basis.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2021

Unless you find an alternative business model to monetize a totally free SaaS product, you’ll have to attach a price tag to it. In this blog post, we’re not going to talk about different business models, seat-based VS usage volume pricing, or subscription VS pay-as-you-go. This is the wrong question to ask.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Forge Global, a secondary market for private-company shares, “said the prices of companies on its platform had fallen 19.9% Other data confirms the general price movement for late-stage unicorns — it’s trending down and to the right. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

The Price Is Right: Students and recent grads can experience everything Early Stage offers for just $99 (you save $350). Go with another student, and the two of you pay less than the price of one founder pass. You can’t beat student pricing for TC Early Stage by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Others want to innovate in every dimension and re-invent every discipline from pricing to marketing to support to customer success. At the outset, Brad also sought to change the pricing model. So pricing’s a really difficult thing, right? We thought innovator pricing would be very important to us.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Fresh from its time in Y Combinator, SaaS startup Anakin raised $2 million to continue developing its software enabling e-commerce companies to see live pricing data on their competitors. He later left to build other startups, but continued to get inquiries from e-commerce companies for help with pricing.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Pricing models can be powerful growth levers. A bad pricing model will impede growth, and can even doom an otherwise promising startup, whereas a good model will capture some of the value that a product creates as revenue, and keep growth flywheels humming along. Price is the most obvious element, but there are many others.

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GCUC

JANUARY 13, 2022

It’s time to raise your prices. The post It’s time to raise your prices appeared first on GCUC Community. More income. Sounds good right? You paused and considered the negative feedback you *might get* from your current.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

I’ve met hundreds of founders over the years, and most, particularly early-stage founders, share one common go-to-market gripe: Pricing. You may have a strong champion in a CIO you’re selling to or a very friendly person handling procurement, but it won’t matter if the pricing can’t be easily explained and understood.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Usage-based pricing (UBP) for SaaS services is becoming more popular as companies of every type automate their processes, but one important result of the shift is that companies that adopt UBP see a return on their customer acquisition costs much sooner than the competition.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Lightspeed’s Gaurav Gupta and Grafana’s Raj Dutt discuss pitch decks, pricing and how to nail the narrative. Lightspeed’s Gaurav Gupta and Grafana’s Raj Dutt discuss pitch decks, pricing and how to nail the narrative. Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models.

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Reforge

MAY 30, 2023

Table of Contents The New Reforge for Teams Introducing our New Pricing and Packaging What does this mean for Individual Members? Request a Demo Introducing our New Pricing and Packaging Today, we are introducing a superior pricing structure for teams. We helped businesses by helping those individuals.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It seems like prices for everything are soaring, especially with an inflation rate that hit 5.4% So when it comes to adjusting your pricing strategy, how do you know if and when it’s time to raise prices? Is it any harder or easier for smaller companies to raise their prices vs larger companies? They are flexible.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

edtech company Duolingo released a revised IPO price range this morning, boosting its potential per-share value to $100 after initially targeting a range that topped out at $95 per share. On the other hand, if Duolingo prices weakly or trades poorly, the company could place a wet blanket atop the startup edtech world. billion and $3.59

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

But why pay full price? Early bird pricing ends — in Gene Roddenberry’s parlance — on Stardate 98489.04. But we’re talking science fact, not fiction, and TC Sessions: Space 2020 provides real opportunity to connect with the people, information and funding you need to boldly build the future of space technology. Go boldly, yes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Today, the company announced two new booking tool features, including guaranteed accessibility for hotel rooms booked from its website and a price match offer. The company also now price matches hotel rooms from other booking platforms, including Booking.com, Expedia and Travelocity. “We Those are things that we haven’t done yet.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

Late last night Oscar Health , a tech-enabled medical insurance provider, priced its IPO at $39 per share. The final price came in $1 per share above its raised IPO guidance; Oscar Health had originally targeted a $32-$34 per-share IPO price. Oscar Health raises IPO price as Coupang releases bullish debut valuation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Rowe Price, Walgreens, Cooley and QED Investors, to scale startup products and tools and get them in front of AARP’s 38 million members. trillion opportunity. AgeTech Collaborative from AARP is bringing together organizations, like T.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

How Monica and Joe Priced Their New SaaS Business Product and Decided their Optimal Pricing Why customers buy based on the perceived worth that the price represents to them, and how you should price to get your fair share of that value. Hey Joe, what price should we charge for the new product? Rain was imminent.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

million in fresh capital to develop its online furniture store, which it says offers lower-priced items at a fraction of the wait time, Tage writes. Daily Crunch: Thoma Bravo buys Coupa Software for $8B, but will that price satisfy shareholders? Nigerian startup Taeillo raised $2.5 Startups and VC.

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