Basecamp: Pricing

Abstract

A data analyst at Basecamp is evaluating the results of pricing research and its potential implications for the venture’s latest version of its project management software product.

Publication
In Signal Image Technology & Internet Systems (SITIS), IEEE.
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This is a case study and primer on data-driven software pricing, taught to students at Harvard Business School.

Description from the case catalog:

Learning objective:

To examine and discuss the process, results, and implications of a data-driven pricing analysis. To illustrate links between a venture’s product policy, target customers, funding sources, management style, promotional policies, and pricing approach. To discuss the role, limits, and requirements of tiered pricing policies.

Subjects covered:

Analysis; Customer acquisition; Customer retention; Customers; Data; Entrepreneurial management; Entrepreneurship; Market research; Marketing; Pricing; Product management; Sales; Sales management; Testing; Value proposition; Values

Setting:

  • Geographic: United States
  • Company Employee Count: Small
  • Event Year Begin: 2004
  • Event Year End: 2016