socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2021

Irvine-based VIZIO priced its IPO last night, saying it will sell 12,250,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a price to the public of $21.00 The price is at the low end of its earlier estimated IPO range of $21.00 VIZIO will start trading this morning on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol VZIO.

Pricing 113

Pricing Class Capital Company 113

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

How about the price per share? The price per share for option grants is also an important consideration. If there is only one class of stock, the same as the founders, and the appraisal of the single class of shares yields, say $2.00 a share, then options must be priced at that amount.

Equity 256

Equity Class Pricing Sales 256

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2021

Irvine-based fitness brand owner Xponential Fitness, which owns such fitness brands as Club Pilates, Pure Barre, and YogaSix, said last night that it has priced its initial public offering (IPO). The company said it is offering up 10,000,000 shares of its Class A stock at a price of $12.00

Pricing 113

Pricing Class Startup Company 113

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Only Hire A+ People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class. I believe that you should always hire people are are looking to “punch above their weight class,&# which means to hire people who want to be one league above where they are today. Weight Class : Let’s take sales. Maybe our pricing needed work – who knows.

Startup 327

Startup Sales Class CIO 327

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2017

Irvine-based Alteryx priced its IPO on Thursday evening, saing that it will sell 9,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock at $14.00 The company, which develops data analytics software, priced at the high end of its estimated initial IPO range, which had been between $12.00 and $14.00 per share.

Pricing 113

Pricing Class Capital Software 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The accelerator said its 2017 and 2018 classes have so far raised more than $40M in follow on investment, with a combined valuation of more than $300M. READ MORE>>.

Class 113

Class Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment 113

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5% above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. And it’s driving up prices beyond their inherent value.

Invest 299

Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

Obviously to understand a “class” of people you have to make broad generalizations. They like a solid product, well defined pricing, good references to sell against, a clear quota and well defined competitors. Sales people will often blame your pricing. They lost the deal because your competitors dropped price.

Sales 382

Sales Help Startup Pricing 382

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2021

Irvine-based tellevision and display maker VIZIO says it has launched its IPO roadshow this morning, looking to sell 15,120,000 shares of its Class A common stock. The company said it expects its initial offering price to be between $21.00 and $23.00 The company is looking to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol VZIO.

Pricing 113

Pricing Class Capital Company 113

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. That asset class need not represent the broader market. They are often bound by geographies and asset classes. But that doesn’t mean that people are paying rational prices as investors based on intrinsic value.

Pricing 309

Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Ventura-based The Trade Desk , which operates an online advertising exchange, priced its IPO late Tuesday evening, saying that it will sell 4,666,677 shares of its Class A common stock at $18.00 The Trade Desk priced at the high end of an already increased estimated IPO range, which had been upped to between $16.00 and $18.00

Pricing 100

Pricing Ventura Incubator Class 100

Berkonomics

MAY 12, 2010

Each grant to new or existing employees must be approved by the board before issue. The price per share for option grants is also an important consideration. It there is only one class of stock, the same as the founders, and the appraisal of the single class of shares yields, say $2.00

Equity 213

Equity Class Pricing Startup 213

Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

You will realize much more from the ultimate sale of your business even if at a considerably lower price than if splitting the proceeds with investors. Strategic investors validate a business, by their presence creating the very value they pay for with increased price per share purchased. There is a lot to say about retaining control.

Venture Capital 295

Venture Capital Startup Class Invest 295

Berkonomics

APRIL 13, 2017

The dominant player in any niche controls pricing for all those under it, and often sets the risk profile for new entrants into the niche if the dominant player’s products or services fill the needs of customers at reasonable prices and quality. Do you have a world-class management team? Have you created high barriers to entry?

Patents 291

Patents Pricing Ideas Marketing 291

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Obviously to understand a “class&# of people you have to make broad generalizations. They like a solid product, well defined pricing, good references to sell against, a clear quota and well defined competitors. Sales people will often blame your pricing. They lost the deal because your competitors dropped price.

Sales 316

Sales Startup Pricing Customer 316

Berkonomics

JUNE 22, 2023

The dominant player in any niche controls pricing for all those under it, and often sets the risk profile for new entrants into the niche if the dominant player’s products or services fill the needs of customers at reasonable prices and quality. Do you have a world-class management team? Can you dominate that market?

Patents 286

Patents Pricing Ideas Marketing 286

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

You will realize much more from the ultimate sale of your business even if at a considerably lower price than if splitting the proceeds with investors. Strategic investors validate a business, by their presence creating the very value they pay for with increased price per share purchased. There is a lot to say about retaining control.

Venture Capital 266

Venture Capital Class Invest Equity 266

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

There are bootcamps, startup classes, video interviews – the sources are now endless. He came to me months ago asking about a “strategic round” of capital for his startup at a high price. I told him that a high price now wasn’t always the best solution. What is a founder to do?

Startup 407

Startup Framework CTO Coach Sales 407

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2011

The site allows students to find their college courses, and automatically searches through online retailers for the best prices on textbooks for those courses. Unlike other sites, the service does not require a textbook-by-textbook search for the best prices; instead, the site pulls up comparison on all of the texts used in a class.

Services 159

Services Course Class Sites 159

socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2012

The publicly held firm said it will repurchase 1.65M shares of its own stock, including 1,152,338 shares of its Class C common stock from Mission Ventures, and 500,000 shares of Class B common stock from US Venture Partners. USVP will continue to hold 2,396,571 shares of MaxLinear's Class B stock. per share, totaling $9.2M.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Capital Mission Ventures Class 150

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Reading it felt like read a university book for an economics class and no wonder since he’s a professor at Harvard Business School. First, over time Salesforce.com’s technology got better and better yet the price didn’t shoot up dramatically relative to Siebel. They are radically lower in price.

Startup 376

Startup Framework Marketing Customer 376

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2017

And the giant gets disrupted precisely because its cost structure to serve its customers and its cash cow, high-priced offering makes it nearly impossible for it to try compete. And the giant knows it has no ability to properly respond at the prices and with the innovation that Ring will serve its customers.

Riot Games 254

Riot Games Pricing Startup Venture Capital 254

Berkonomics

JULY 31, 2014

There are lots of ways to define how to market well, including the four P’s of marketing (1): product, price, promotion and place. Use all the techniques you learn in marketing classes to drive demand. Higher demand results in higher prices – if there is limited supply. This is considered to be the producer-oriented model.

Marketing 201

Marketing Demand Pricing Customer 201

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2014

Accordingt o D-Link, it has enhanced its deal registration program, which provides better pricing for its enterprise class products. Specific details of the program were not announced by the company, which says the effort is aimed at enterprise class networking, IP surveillance, unified wireless, network storage, and security products.

IP 138

IP Class Networking Sales 138

TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator that launched in 2018, brought investors and founders together in private slack channels after a live-streamed presentation. This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine.

Invest 237

Invest Startup Artificial Inteligence Class 237

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

And then they said one thing that most marketers go their whole career never hearing, 'Listen Steve, price is irrelevant, it is speed that matters.' We had been pricing our graphics cards to be a low-cost provider. The first thing I did was raise our prices.". Good News Bad News.

Marketing 271

Marketing Startup Sales Customer 271

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Three reasons: There is a relative valuation between the price a VC pays and their expectations of what it will exit for in an IPO or trade sale. The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class. Despite my cynicism of MBA’s , this class was very valuable to me. Short answer – yes.

Venture Capital 263

Venture Capital Startup Invest Funding 263

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Pricing your options: The price per share for option grants is also an important consideration. Pricing rules: If there is only one class of stock, the same as the founders, and the appraisal of the single class of shares yields, say $2.00 a share, then options must be priced at that amount.

Equity 156

Equity Class Pricing Sales 156

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Tool Users - Startups often have a long gestation period in which the team is in discovery mode, defining the company's value proposition, target market, pricing, business model, etc. Action vs. Analysis - Although its use is in decline, many MBA classes are still taught via the Socratic case method.

Entrepreneur 279

Entrepreneur Technical Review Case Study Class 279

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam’s vision was to build a world-class “reverse logistics” company that could be as ambitious as Amazon has been in delivering goods to our houses. presented pricing challenges when compared to a whole new set of offline competitors we didn’t know well. We built a strong brand in the city and acquired a ton of organic traffic.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2023

The last money has the first say – in valuation and in sometimes forcing draconian terms that require prior investors to contribute a proportional new investment to retain a semblance of their original rights and avoid dilution or worse yet, involuntary conversion to a lower class of stock.

Venture Capital 292

Venture Capital Sales Invest Class 292

Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Two new battlegrounds emerged this week in the nation’s ongoing drug pricing debate. The first involved television: The federal government hopes that blaring prices in TV ads will essentially pressure drug makers into lowering them, and the pharma lobby fired back. Read more » Reprints | Share:

Pricing 74

Pricing Class San Diego Venture Capital 74

Berkonomics

APRIL 6, 2012

Is the price paid for shares by previous investors excessive, creating a post-money valuation too high for the actual value of the company? This allows for a discussion – and perhaps a negotiation – between inside and outside board members in such instances, all for the good of the corporation, not just one class of shareholder.

Venture Capital 198

Venture Capital Invest Pricing Class 198

socalTECH

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Among the biggest winners of the IPO of Zynga is San Diego-based Avalon Ventures , which owned 32,169,401 shares of Zynga before the IPO, a stake which was worth $321M based on Zynga's opening price this morning. Zynga priced at $10.00 Zynga looks to be among the most visible exits from that firm's portfolio yet.

Southern California 145

Southern California SoCal Avalon San Diego 145

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area. We want to create the right mix of the types of activities, price points, and make sure we have high quality content and high quality activities.

Startup 271

Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

A financial buyer will analyze your numbers, past and forecast, to the n’th degree, and calculate the price based upon the result, after carefully comparing your numbers with those of others in the same and similar industries. The price negotiated is not at all the critical factor in the emotional sale.

Sales 220

Sales Pricing IBM IBM 220

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

OPEC (the organization of petroleum exporting countries) is a cartel that was set up in the 1960′s and represents the interests of the 12 biggest oil producing countries in the world with the goal of increasing prices of oil, a good supplied in limited quantities to a world that had insatiable demand for the product. Why the limitation?

Hulu 292

Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292