socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2015

Los Angeles-based FreedomPop unveiled a new effort today to offer up Wi-Fi service nationwide, through a network of 10 million hotspots. FreedomPop offers up a "freemium" style, phone service which heavily leverages 4G data services from Sprint. READ MORE>>. freempop national wifi wireless network telephone data mobile smartphone'

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based MyLife.com , the online people search service headed by Jeff Tinsley, is launching a new service today aimed at helping users manage their multiple social networks. MyLife offers up a freemium, online, subscription service with additional services such as people search for finding high school, college, and other alumni.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2011

Los Angeles-based Geni , the online family tree and genealogy site, said Thursday that it has launched a new program to allow institutions like public libraries and genealogical societies with full access to the site. The firm looks to be trying to convince its users to become "Geni Pro" users, the firm's subscription, premium service.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Los Angeles-based streaming media site Stickam.com announced today that it has rolled out a new service which allows its artists to create streaming media sites using their own domain names. The company said the system allows artists to provide freemium, or subscription-only sites for fans. Pricing on the new offering was not released.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2022

In my experience as an angel investor to startups, goodwill disagreements are perhaps the most common reason that you will fail to close interested investors as an entrepreneur. This is the reason that many new startups offer freemium services, and prioritize attracting a large following above making a profit.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

For today's interview, we spoke with Joe Bayen , the CEO and founder of Los Angeles-based Grow Credit (www.growcredit.com), which runs a fintech startup which allows you to pay your subscriptions through a free Mastercard, as a way to boost your credit score.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

This relates to another great post Freemium Founders: Start Charging for Things Today! StartupList — a new way to reach angels - Venture Hacks , February 3, 2010 AngelList is a curated list of angel investors, representing $80M going into early-stage startups this year. where Tony Wright suggests charging right now.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

Freebinar is backed by the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. It's not a freemium model. What are your specific plans for the new funding from the angels? We spoke with Costin Tuculescu , CEO of Freebinar, about the firm, how it's reaching out to Dimdim users, and the background on the company.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

One of the things we have is a freemium model, where not everyone on our app is a client. We don't partner up with family counselors, marriage counselors, psychologists, and thatinstead, we are strong believers that people know what they want, and we are empowering them by giving them the tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

As an angel investor, I really prefer to hear evidence of credible traction today, not how great things could be in the future. Especially for free or freemium products, the rate of new signups is critical. Is your customer-acquisition rate accelerating?

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

We caught up with John to learn a little bit more about what the firm's services offer, as well as how the firm ended up moving to Los Angeles. How are you finding your conversion rates working with the freemium model? John Nahm: Freemium has been working spectacularly. Explain what Phonevite is?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2010

If you’re asking somebody you know (let’s say, me) for an intro to somebody for a purpose (let’s say to raise money from an angel I know) and if you want to tell me something private like, “I think I’d like to meet with so-and-so.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

That's what Los Angeles-based MergeLocal (www.mergelocal.com) is looking to find out, by offering up points which can be converted to real cash, when users check into local businesses. Are users willing to check into local businesses with another, mobile check-in product? Michael Wong: That's a really good question.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles. Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.”

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Pasadena-based Cramster (www.cramster.com) recently announced $3M in a large angel round for the firm's online study communities. We spoke with the two founders of the firm, Rob Angarita and Aaron Hawkey , about what the site is all about, and the interesting way in which they connected with their angel investor.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. Sherry Gunther: Primarly, MyMiniPeeps will be freemium mode. I found the process incredibly great.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

If you are deploying a freemium business model, test your upsell strategy on a portion of your users to establish concrete free-to-paid conversion metrics. Whenever you seek funding from VCs, be sure you also line up alternative sources of capital, such as government grants, angel investors, venture debt or friends, family and fools.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Los Angeles-based Orgoo (www.orgoo.com) is looking to solve the problem by creating a unified communications service which ties all those ways of communicating together. We're advertising supported, what a lot call a premium/freemium service. To this point, by angels and employees. What's the business model behind the site?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Entrepreneurism / Monetization fan culture, freemium, User engagement. . Four Flavors of Freemium. Freemium' at its core has become rather widely known and accepted as a business model these days, y. Entrepreneurism / Monetization freemium, monetization, networks. . Angels in the Infield. Love Can Pay The Bills.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

And I have been impressed with Steven Kaplan and others at University of Chicago (my alma mater), who have been encouraging entrepreneurship through the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship , through angel investing , seed conferences and changes in teaching. We had a brief chat on his views of “Freemium.”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2013

If you’re a venture-backed tech company or even an early-stage business fueled by angel or seed money I assume you have a good group of board members or advisors who will give you time to be helpful and they want to be helpful. should we charge for our product or be freemium?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). angel investing tips. clearly didn’t cause this.”

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Freemium 101: Customer Conversion - Venture Chronicles , November 18, 2010 At Get Satisfaction we have had a freemium model from day 1, at then it was just free, no premium offerings existed so we’ve lived through a couple of key transition points and now are optimizing a model we know works. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

FitOn is a freemium product, and members have access to hundreds of workouts in cardio, strength, yoga, stretch and meditation. She teamed up with her husband, who had spent 20 years in digital products, to put together a health and fitness app that would do what AllTrails did for outdoors and what Calm did for meditation, Cook added.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley?

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