This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. My experiments in lean pricing - Venture Hacks , February 16, 2010 Ash Maurya, a lean entrepreneur who runs a bootstrapped startup called CloudFire, discusses pricing issues for first versions (Minimum Viable Product – MVP). This is tough stuff to get right and my recent experience in a startup where we charged out of the gate and then wonder the effects of other pricing makes me appreciate Ash’s perspective. Sunk Costs: An invisible, pervasive peril - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing

Thursday, May 14, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Strategic Pricing. Learn how to develop pricing tactics to increase profits and position against competitors, assess pricing opportunities, capture value, understand the implications of product and market life cycles, and determine how and when to stem price erosion. See [link] (mor

Thursday, November 6, 2008 -- "Recession-proof Pricing Strategies for a Multi-platform World" Technology Council. Today's technology companies increasingly must deliver products on multiple platforms to satisfy customer demand and competitive pressures. Each delivery platform requires a different pricing model that attempts to maximize profits, but also impacts the company's infrastructure, channel, and competitive positioning. The need to provide "platform de jour" is complicated by a slowing economy and customer desires to maximize their purchasing dollar and to delay payments.

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the auto pricing data firm headed by Scott Painter, announced Friday that it is looking to measure the ratings of the "hottest" vehicles from its data, with a new web service called TrueBuzz . The firm said the new vehicle pricing prediction service will offer prediction in consumer interest in new vehicles, based on site traffic, automotive media coverage, blog postings, dealership pre-orders, and other data. The firm said it will only offer the ratings for production, and not concept cars, with predictions for six months after full retail distribution of the new vehicles.

Many of the conferences are offering early bird prices and TechCrunch is poning up a free ticket a day until September 11th . Price : $1995 through August 31, then prices escalate to $2,995. Photo by San Diego Shooter Demo Fall 09 – Come to DEMO and see the most credible early stage and market-ready products that hold the biggest promise for financial and business success. As 2009 draws to a close, you might want to start planning which conferences coming up, that you’ll want to attend.  There There are five big ones scheduled over the

For example, his order process is always split into two parts: the first page asks potential customers for their names, email addresses, etc, and the second page tells them the price and asks for the order. If she abandons after the second page, Wil knows he needs to adjust his price. Was it because of price? When my friend Wil Schroter builds web sites, he's more concerned with attracting revenue than eyeballs. When we get together in person, I like talking to him about how he builds revenue-generating sites like goBIGnetwork.com , because he's so methodical about it.

Pasadena-based FastSoft , the Caltech spinout developing Internet acceleration devices, disclosed earlier this week that it has rolled out a new product. Pricing on the new product was not released. The firm said its new E Series EX accelerator now supports 10Gbps throughput, and accelerates TCP traffic 2 to 5 times. The firm said it is targeting hosting, SaaS, social network, content distribution networks, and cloud computing companies with the hardware.

Agoura Hills-based Symark International reports this morning that it has launched a new product, focused on automation of IT lifecycle management. According to the firm, its new PowerSeries Management Console (PSMC) product ties into its existing Symark PowerBroker products, and helps to automate policy creation and approval, aggregation and review of event lots, and other features of its software. Pricing on the new Symark's PowerBroker software is used for managing user accounts and access control on Unix and Linux servers. Tags: symark security password access

Irvine-based Kofax , which develops document capture software, announced this morning that it has launched a new product for monitoring its software. Pricing of the new software was not disclosed. ...Tags: According to the firm, its new Kofax Monitor software provides real-time, enterprise monitoring and metrics. The new software can be used to both monitor and receive alert notifications about system errors.

So he tried a new idea, “It was about wrapping a good quality product around the forum.” He created a product based on their input — but they didn’t like it The product he created was a certification program for affiliate managers. Is it my price? Warren Jolly’s site, CasinoAffiliatePrograms.com , started out as little more than a message board for web entrepreneurs who were running affiliate ads, but he was determined to grow its revenue. So he talked to his customers, and what he heard taught him how to bring his revenues up to $400,000 per