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How To Make Freemium Customers Generate Revenue For Your Startup

InfoChachkie

In the spirit of the “land grab” mentality of the day, we emphasized usage of our screen sharing technology with no thought applied to how we would convert such users into paying customers. Advertising – Companies such as, eFax and YouSendIt generate significant revenue by presenting relevant ads to their respective free users.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Setting up Shop - Picking an Office Space

Frank Addante

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. We are a creative, Internet advertising company, so we wanted to design our office to reflect that. Zondigo, Inc. Be scrappy.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects. Therefore if you want to change just one field of data we had to redraw the entire screen. They may not.

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