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How To Make Freemium Customers Generate Revenue For Your Startup

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Ways To Make A Freemium Service Work. The concept of a Freemium solution was not well founded when we launched BuddyHelp. The Freemium approach is now widely recognized as an effective product rollout strategy in which one version of the solution is offered at no charge, while other versions of the product require payment.

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. This relates to another great post Freemium Founders: Start Charging for Things Today!

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5 “What-Ifs” To Include In A Startup Financial Model

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What if your customer acquisition cost assumptions have to change? The most common business models these days include the subscription model, freemium model and ecommerce. Your credibility with investors, and your confidence in any request, depends on these answers.

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How FreedomPop's Free Wireless Internet is Disrupting Telecom

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Steven Sesar: FreedomPop is all about bringing the freemium model to the wireless Internet market, and disrupting the telephone companies. We've got less infrastructure, and we're not having to pay hundreds of dollars for consumer acquisition. Freemium creates a better conversion rate. That goal there is also to disrupt voice.

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7 Goodwill Factors Will Raise Your Business Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

The same goes for business deals that fail during acquisitions or when it is time for you to retire. This is the reason that many new startups offer freemium services, and prioritize attracting a large following above making a profit. Just be aware that building your customer base first requires deep pockets, or many investors.

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Startup Business Model Considerations

SoCal CTO

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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5 Startup Financial Questions Every Investor Will Ask

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What if your customer acquisition cost assumptions have to change? The most common business models these days include the subscription model, freemium model and ecommerce. Your credibility with investors, and your confidence in any request, depends on these answers.

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