socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The company's venture backers include Mucker Capital and Commerce Capital, as well as angel investor Minal Hasan, of K2 Global Ventures. We are observing that users who switch to our premium plan are seeing their credit score rise even higher than those on the freemium plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier. Through a free base product, you give the first taste of the service or game away for free, get users hooked, and then convert as many as possible to paying customers. Build your own marketplace platform.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Fortunately, for such startups, there are a number of precursors to paid customers, such as: trial users, freemium customers and qualified prospects. However, not all ventures are mature enough to generate paying customers. Rather, they serve to illustrate the relative value of common sources of validation, from the most to least impactful.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

This relates to another great post Freemium Founders: Start Charging for Things Today! A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , February 18, 2010 Great post from Fred Wilson that questions a common metric – unique visitors. where Tony Wright suggests charging right now. How Unique Is A Unique Visitor? -

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

One of the questions we discussed is, “How much capital should a startup raise?” ” Fred & I are both in agreement that there is a tension between capital constraints and creativity. Perhaps that’s rational capitalism at its extreme. But it’s not who I am.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier. Through a free base product, you give the first taste of the service or game away for free, get users hooked, and then convert as many as possible to paying customers. Build your own marketplace platform.

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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. Thus, you may starve working on your labor of love.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Startups funded by large venture-capital investments rarely think about productivity. On the business side, we now have the subscription model, the freemium model and others. For example, many founders now use makerspaces such as TechShop to build prototypes without the costs and long lead times of manufacturers.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

We will be opening up a a round of funding soon, as soon as we have some metrics and have been live in the market, and hope to raise some money and capital in the next thirty days. We're also funding it out of pocket. You mention you're part of StartEngine. What's the best part of the accelerator experience for you?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2008

We were at the tail end of it, and not until the 11th hour with one venture capital firm, when Shai just showed up. We've been doing this for a while and capitalize on our head start. Nowadays we'd be categorized as being "Freemium.". We received an unexpected email from him that said -- "Please come talk with me."

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed). But “on capital employed” encourages companies to push more off balance sheet and thus into offshore & outsourced situations. We had a brief chat on his views of “Freemium.” Venture Capital. So they could monetize and people would pay.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. Entrepreneurism / Monetization fan culture, freemium, User engagement. . The PepsiCo10 program in 2010 saw the company team up with Mashable and Highland Capital Partners to. Four Flavors of Freemium. Entrepreneurism / Monetization freemium, monetization, networks. . Buy a Condom!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Why do a freemium model? In many freemium business this conversion is in the single digit percentages. Here’s the link. This video discusses issues like: 1. This is to drive marketing and any IT or infrastructure spend can be seen as such.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2013

should we charge for our product or be freemium? should we raise capital now while valuations are strong or wait until next year when we have more traction? should we ramp up sales hires now or wait for more traction? should we charge SaaS revenue, ad revenue or volumetric billing revenue?

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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). clearly didn’t cause this.” How it happens.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive. Keep going.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The company closed on an $18 million Series B round of funding, led by Delta-v Capital, with participation from existing investors Accel, Telstra Ventures, Crosscut Ventures, Maverick Ventures and Second Avenue Partners.

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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? First Principles.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

think virtual goods of Zynga, ad supported models, freemium models). But if you are growing uber fast, building for scale and have access to capital to fund your growth then it’s always the smart play. Are you offering a product where the supply costs will continue to drop precipitously? think Amazon’s Storage costs).

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