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IPO Offerings Are Already Up 62.5% This Year. With Much More to Come. We’re Back

SaaStr

IPOs priced so far—up 62.5% Nine of the ten largest IPOs in 2024 ended the year trading above their pre-listing prices, with half achieving triple-digit gains. Quality companies are winning big : Over 85% of 2024 IPOs priced within or above their initial marketing price ranges. over the same period last year.

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What Will this Crisis Accelerate in Your Ecosystem?

Tom Tunguz

Entertainment is changing. And could online learning create a better learning experience at a fraction of the price, changing the return on investment calculations for going to college? Certainly, some of this spike is due to transient conditions. Formula One drivers now compete in online races since organizers paused the season.

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Mark-to-Market Rounds - What Will Your Startup's Strategy Be?

Tom Tunguz

Third, investors price these infusions on multiples just the way a sell-side equity analyst would. And last, some decide to negotiate the valuations lower, preferring a consistent and more modest price increase, and the confidence of knowing next year the business will be worth more, irrespective of a correction.

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2021 Planning and Global Economic Collapse

SaaStr

Tourism and entertainment are going bankrupt. Third, maybe model more pricing pressure from CIOs next year. Already, it’s Neiman Marcus and Men’s Warehouse and Lord & Taylor but that is just the start. Much of retail simply will not survive our economy shutting down for 18 months. It will be over a year.

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Making things people want

Intercom, Inc.

Maybe your customers want to be entertained, or spend more time with their friends, or understand what projects teammates are working on, or maybe they want to project growth for their business. They would experiment with new formats, new layouts, lower prices, sharper headlines, but they couldn’t stop the rot.

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What is Dynamic Pricing? Everything You Need to Know About Implementing Dynamic Pricing in 2024

Stax

The phrase “dynamic pricing” often sparks heated debates in eCommerce and retail, and it’s not hard to see why. If you’ve ever booked a hotel, ordered an Uber, or shopped on Amazon, you’ve experienced the effects of dynamic pricing in real-time. Prices may shift down or up at a moment’s notice.

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Growing a Digital Goods Company in Asia: Challenges, Opportunities, and Insights

FastSpring

However, the Digital Good space, particularly in SaaS and general entertainment, actually presents new opportunities with higher margins and a huge greenfield potential. Number one, in terms of the utility -based software, and number two, in terms of general entertainment. This is something that, for example, FastSpring offers.