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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tomasz Tunguz

But throughout this turmoil, startups must adopt a process to craft a good pricing strategy, and re-evaluate prices periodically, at least once per year. The Three Core Pricing Strategies There are only three pricing strategies startups should pursue: Maximization, Penetration and Skimming.

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MakeSpace Raises an Additional $17.5 million and Unveils Strategy to Make Public Storage the Next Blockbuster Video

Both Sides of the Table

Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us. It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist. MakeSpace , the leading provider of next-generation storage for consumers, today announced an additional $17.5

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How To End Your Pitch with Your Vision

Dream It

Strategies for crafting a strong and compelling vision for your startup: Towards the end of your pitch, tell investors that “this is just the beginning” for your startup. Tell investors how your vision affects your go-to-market strategy and how you’ll expand across verticals within the industry that you’re tackling.

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The Future of Corporate Venture Capital

500

Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups. We believe the new corporate landscape calls for new strategies. But the rate of change has accelerated and with it, the balance of internal versus external investment.

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When AI Favors the Incumbents

Tomasz Tunguz

Incumbents have lept onto advances in generative machine learning more aggressively than any trend in recent technology history. But generative ML differs because incumbents are pushing the envelope. In addition to these the advantages, these incumbents have another edge : their distribution.

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Israeli fintech Personetics raises $85M for tools to help incumbents personalize banking services to compete with neobanks

TechCrunch

Today a startup that is building tools to help incumbent address this challenge is announcing a round of funding on the back of a lot of demand for its services. “T hey are seeing the impact of the alternatives,” he said, with the migration away from the incumbents happening gradually. That’s a common thing.”

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Both Things Can Be True: Bias and Bad Fundraising Advice

This is going to be BIG.

They imagine it to look something like this: They think that there are some deals that are automatic yeses and some that are just bad, but there’s a whole lot that are kind of in the middle—deals that can be nudged over to one side or the other based on things like clever fundraising strategy or the presence of bias. Is that a good strategy?

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