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How To Make Freemium Customers Generate Revenue For Your Startup

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As we did not require users to sign in, we were forced to correlate IP addresses with company names, which, in 1999, was an inexact and very manual science. After more cajoling, those of us interested in generating revenue convinced the “BuddyHelp Should (Still) Be Free” contingent to place an email address field in the page flow.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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He’s been steadily emailing me for the past 18 months with ideas for local entrepreneurs I “have to meet&# and has been egging me on to spend more time in Seattle. So you need Dave Schappell who is building an interesting business in Seattle called TeachStreet , a local-community initiative to connect teachers & students.