socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2012

One of our most recent titles, using the freemium model, is Jewel Factory, a sandbox game with a great mini game within. really, that opportunity has only recently been realized fully with Apple in 2008, and later with Google. Google has opened that even more than Apple. I'm not sure if you can get more open than Google.

Mobile 168

Mobile Java Google Startup 168

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2013

” 9+ adds that game developers know Engagement and Monetization focus through big data and analytics in freemium products. Freemium models are dominating the app stores, and mobile game entrepreneurs have years of experience in how to use data and analytics to engage and monetize users in this new model for all consumer services.

Startup 79

Startup Develop Development Incubator 79

InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2011

As much as a consumer will go to a search engine like Google to find out more information about things they have already heard about, they are going to Twitter, and to a lesser extent Facebook, to discover what’s new and exciting today. ”. The intent of the consumer on Twitter is to discover things that are new.

Social Media 252

Social Media Platform Media Networking 252

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Risk is more manageable with subscriptions and even freemium pricing. Many entrepreneurs think they can reduce and predict risk by emulating previous winners like Google and Twitter. Providing everything free, and growing users to the max for years, like Twitter and Facebook, is a high risk approach requiring deep pockets.

Startup 115

Startup Resource Metrics Entrepreneur 115

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2014

Risk is more manageable with subscriptions and even freemium pricing. Many entrepreneurs think they can reduce and predict risk by emulating previous winners like Google and Twitter. Providing everything free, and growing users to the max for years, like Twitter and Facebook, is a high risk approach requiring deep pockets.

Startup 113

Startup Resource Metrics Entrepreneur 113

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Man vs Algorithm: Online Video Curation Face-Off (Tubefilter, Google). Consumerism of business freemium software (BetterWorks). The New Hollywood: Building Celebrity Brands Online EQAL, Cambio, Digital LA. Funding: The New Indie: BONA FIDE film. Startups: Demystifying the PR Process for the Lean Startup (Symphony PR).

Southern California 89

Southern California SoCal Guide Mixergy 89

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Whether someone is in Google address book, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter, they all end up in one place. It also generated search alerts--like a Google alert, for mentions of that person's name, company, and also keywords. Tyler Koblasa: It's the classic freemium model. The market really is power networkers.

Startup 145

Startup Social Network Tool Santa Monica 145

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Risk is more manageable with subscriptions and even freemium pricing. Many entrepreneurs think they can reduce and predict risk by emulating previous winners like Google and Twitter. Providing everything free, and growing users to the max for years, like Twitter and Facebook, is a high risk approach requiring deep pockets.

Resource 64

Resource Metrics Entrepreneur Customer 64

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Proactively implementing new business models, like subscriptions and “freemium” pricing, are good risks, while linearly lowering old product prices is a bad risk. Entrepreneurs who try to reduce risk by following winners, like building another Facebook or another Google, will find that they don’t catch arrows or customers.

Pricing 103

Pricing SaaS Competition Social Network 103

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2012

what you can see with out scrolling down) probably get well over 85-90% of all of the downloads (much like on Google). the 200 apps who have cumulatively made the most money), 50% of them are freemium apps (i.e. Even crazier, in the Android Market 65% of the top 200 apps are freemium! That’s because those developers optimized.

Mobile 82

Mobile Search Engine Optimization SEO Startup 82

Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

is a decent security solution, startups should be aware that ‘freemium' VPN services tend to profit by displaying ads and tracking your data. Its platform, RingCentralVideo Pro offers high-quality video and audio, a heap of unique features that give bigger names Zoom and Google Meet a run for their money, and no limits on call length.

Tool 131

Tool Startup Software Review Technical Review 131

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2011

Proactively implementing new business models, like subscriptions and “freemium” pricing, are good risks, while linearly lowering old product prices is a bad risk. Entrepreneurs who try to reduce risk by following winners, like building another Facebook or another Google, will find that they don’t catch arrows or customers.

Startup 98

Startup Pricing SaaS Competition 98

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. What truth?

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

There's a lot of big guys in this business --Google, Yahoo, etc.--how We're advertising supported, what a lot call a premium/freemium service. It was long, long before Google--before Google was a figment of someone's imagination. They all now come with cameras. how do you compete?

Email 113

Email Yahoo Startup Google 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2010

Proactively implementing new business models, like subscriptions and “freemium” pricing, are good risks, while linearly lowering old product prices is a bad risk. Entrepreneurs who try to reduce risk by following winners, like building another Facebook or another Google, will find that they don’t catch arrows or customers.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Pricing SaaS Competition 97

InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

Judiciously comment on articles they post to LinkedIn, retweet their tweets, vote up one of their Quora posts and establish a Google Alert on them and their firm. 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.

Venture Capital 236

Venture Capital Capital Research Customer 236

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Aaron Hawkey: We bootstrapped the business for almost six years, and we've had revenues from day one, from the first day we launched form Google Ads. Nowadays we'd be categorized as being "Freemium.". You've been around for awhile, why now for angel funding? Aaron Hawkey: We see ourselves as a viable alternative to tutoring.

Study 113

Study Education Startup Sites 113

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

So if you were using Skype, Google Talk and had a call over the Internet, you'll notice in some instances especially when the Internet is a little dicey, the audio quality degrades pretty substantially. The previously company I started was CrystalVoice communications. CrystalVoice solved the problem that plagues Internet voice applications.

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Startup Software Review Technical Review 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Our client software is a true browser plug-in (no Flash) that’s based on Google’s WebRTC open source project. As Google and other browser makers add real time video and audio capability to the browser, we will end up with a “no software required” delivery model.We

Cloud Computing 65

Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Entrepreneurism / Monetization fan culture, freemium, User engagement. . You quit your 9-5 to build the next google or iBeer. 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. .

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Payment ready consumers (Amazon, iTunes, PayPal) and businesses (Google AdWords, Square). think virtual goods of Zynga, ad supported models, freemium models). In my estimation this is one of the biggest strategic mistakes Google has made in not competing more aggressively with AWS. think Amazon’s Storage costs).

Startup 386

Startup Pricing Marketing Product 386