The basic premise for building a strong pricing strategy is to provide value and certainty with a three-tier model.
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Uber said it laid off a third of its marketing team on Monday, or about 400 people, as the ride-hailing company tries to cut costs and streamline its operations after its initial public offering in May.
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Capital One was hacked, the company has disclosed. The breach was first discovered on July 19th.
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With all the excitement about the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, one story combined several of our favorite things: space, finance, and government efficiency (lol, jk).
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On Friday Monotype, a design firm responsible for creating typefonts, announced that it would be acquired by HGGC (a private equity firm). You may not know who monotype is, but you definitely know their fonts (you're reading one now).
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Gusto, a popular human resources platform for SMBs, announced a $200 million funding round this week. This new money brings Gusto's valuation to $3.8 billion.
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According to UBS Group AG, the market for plant-based protein is set to surge over the next decade as part of an agricultural revolution in technology.
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On Tuesday evening, Neuralink, a company in which Elon Musk has invested around $100 million, detailed the baby steps it has taken toward the goal of inserting a computer connection into your brain as safe and painlessly as Lasik eye surgery.
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Netflix reported earnings Wednesday night and the results were not great. The company saw its first major loss in US subscribers last quarter, and a mere 2.7 million paid customers added globally, nearly half of what was forecast.
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There is a pitched struggle underway between the makers of fake AI-generated videos and images and forensics experts trying desperately to uncover them. And the detectives are losing, Axios reports.
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Most coverage of Ross Perot’s death this week focused, understandably, on his presidential runs in 1992 and 1996. But he also was one of the tech industry’s most successful serial entrepreneurs:
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After just over two years on the market, workplace chat app Microsoft Teams says it has surpassed main competitor Slack in regular usage.
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In September of 2017, Chamath Palihapitiya, the early Facebook executive who left the company to found venture firm Social Capital, founded Social Capital Hedosophia as a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
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Superhuman, an invitation-only email service that costs $30 a month and promises “the fastest email experience ever made,” raised a $33 million investment round, led by Andreessen Horowitz last week at a whopping $260 million valuation.
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This week a major fire engulfed two Jim Beam bourbon barrel warehouses on McCracken Pike in Woodford County, Kentucky.
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Anheuser-Busch InBev disclosed this week that it will seek to raise upwards of $9.8 billion in a Hong Kong IPO of its Asia-Pacific business.
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After The Economist released a study that postulated if the state of California were an independent country, it would have the fifth largest economy in the world, GZeroMedia made the same comparison for all 50 states.
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Typically if you’re growing at a rapid pace, you’re investing heavily in sales and marketing. If you’re growing slowly, you should hope you’re running a profitable operation. In SaaS, the “Rule of 40” is an excellent way to measure your value and attractiveness to investors.
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Plant-based proteins are all the rage these days with the likes of Impossible Foods and Beyond Meats snagging headlines
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