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He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. So when he saw the browser it instantly dawned on him that this would be the greatest customer development tool ever.

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I’ve heard the insufferable speeches at conferences. I understand that many people argue that “fail fast&# just means launch products and learn from customers. Either this thing has legs and will grow fast and we’ll raise at a very large price or we’re going to ‘fail fast’ &# Me, “What?

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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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