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6 Reasons It’s So Hard to Sell Your Start-Up Stock as an Ex-Employee

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: I Have Some Shares in a Successful Start-Up I Worked At, But the Company Won’t Let Me Sell Them. And while it mainly impacts ex-employees, it also impacts angel and seed investors who are often blocked from selling as well. Why do scale-ups and startups do this? Personally, I’ve lost here.

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Price, Cost, Value Propositions, Value Realization, Value Creation……

Partners in Excellence

Most of the time, we and our customers think of value in terms of the price/cost. We present a solution, we define the price, the customer evaluates it against alternatives and it’s budget, then chooses to go forward or to do something else. Where we are lower priced, we compete solely on that low price.

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RevenueCat: Free Trials Are Way Up, Pricing is Stable in Mobile Subscriptions

SaaStr

That’s way up from 60% in 2023. Mobile Subscription Pricing is Flat, Not Up This is interesting. I suspect it’s because of the huge friction in mobile of moving beyond organic price points like $9.99 a month to pricing, especially for the existing base. #3. You really need to be in the upper quartile.

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Toast: We Crossed The Line on Price Increases

SaaStr

So price increases have been the name of the game in SaaS for the past 12 months, in many (not all) cases to help make up for slowing growth: Zendesk up 16% Salesforce up 9% Google Workspace up 20% HubSpot up 12% Webflow up 16% Shopify up 33% Slack up 10% And some of them like Slack and Salesforce hadn’t raised list prices in quite some time.

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What is RGSP? Google’s Randomized Generalized Second-Price ad auctions explained

Search Engine Land

The concept of randomized generalized second-price (RGSP) auctions sent shockwaves through the PPC community after the subject took center stage at the Google antitrust trial. The top bidder then “pays the price of the bid equal to the next-highest bid plus one cent,” according to Big Tech on Trial. Why is RGSP unfair?

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Dear SaaStr: How does a SaaS Startup Find Its Initial Price Point?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How does a SaaS company find its initial price point? If you are more valuable than the comp, and are confident selling that value — pricing higher than your comp can work well. If you started off low-end, but have moved up-market … don’t be scared to totally redo your pricing each year.

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What Is Cost Plus Pricing? How Do You Use It In Sales?

Salesforce

Figuring out the right way to price your products can be tricky. Whether you’re selling software or designer handbags, your pricing strategy has a big impact on your sales success. There are a lot of ways to go about it, but if you’re looking for simplicity, cost-plus pricing might be a good bet.

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