socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2015

mobile relationships dating swipe freemium premium plus tinder' Tinder also launched "Passport" which lets users set their location to any country or area -- rather than just their current location -- so that they might find matches in other cities they are traveling to. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2013

It appears the move comes as the firm has increasingly begun to focus on paying, business and consumer users of the site, and as it seeks to clamp down on freemium users who just haven't been converting to the user's full blown service.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2014

FreedomPop offers up free--or more accurately, freemium--mobile phone service to users, letting them access a mobile data network for free up to certain data limits. FreedomPop said it is launching into a European test market in Belgium, and has plans to expand to the UK, Germany, France, Spain and the Pacific Rim over the next few months.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2015

FreedomPop offers up a "freemium" style, phone service which heavily leverages 4G data services from Sprint. The free, mobile data operator said it will offer up its unlimited SMS, voice, and Wifi data plat for $5 a month. READ MORE>>. freempop national wifi wireless network telephone data mobile smartphone'

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Pricing constraints and the need to attract consumers drove the invention by startups of the freemium model, subscription model, razor-blade model, and others. Without constraints at the forefront, computers tend to get complex and more expensive. Build entirely new business models and systems.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

Steven Sesar: FreedomPop is all about bringing the freemium model to the wireless Internet market, and disrupting the telephone companies. Freemium creates a better conversion rate. That combination of application, device, network, and the freemium model gets you an all-in, free voice and data service, which is massively disruptive.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 17, 2015

Come meet some of LA’s most cutting‐edge industry leaders in this year’s 2nd annual and only FREEMIUM Tech Summit. This 2015 event features 2 full days of compelling presentations, panels, workshops & mixers, with some of the industry’s most innovative and successful leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2022

The most common business models these days include the subscription model, freemium model and ecommerce. The financial model obviously has to be built in concert that the overall business and pricing model that you are implementing. Each has a different set of variables for sales, revenue flow, marketing costs and personnel.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MAY 8, 2010

Entrepreneurs and content creators must continue to educate themselves in the domains of personal privacy and security and leverage the new link and freemium economies to be successful moving forward.? Tags: Business Strategy Food For Thought Marketing freemium link economy privacy security transparency. Ciaran Foley LookSee.TV.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

MyLife offers up a freemium, online, subscription service with additional services such as people search for finding high school, college, and other alumni. MyLife said it aims to create a "single unified feed" of users' social networking activity. Pricing on the new service was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2011

Geni launched in January of 2007 as a free service, created by former PayPal co-founder David Sacks, and switched to a "freemium" model in December 2008 with its Geni Pro service, as it went from building up users to figuring out a business model. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

What's the hardest part of running a freemium business? When you've got to pull back your free features, in order to make sure those free accounts don't overwhelm your resources. That's the lesson being learned by YouMail this week, as the firm announced that it would be changing some of its free services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. 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. Even a conversion rate of one percent can build a healthy business. Build your own marketplace platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2021

Pricing constraints and the need to attract consumers drove the invention by startups of the freemium model, subscription model, razor-blade model, and others. Without constraints at the forefront, computers tend to get complex and more expensive. Build entirely new business models and systems.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The company said the system allows artists to provide freemium, or subscription-only sites for fans. Stickam said the service, a new level of its PayPerLive service, allows artists to create their own community powered by Stickam's back end technology. The company said it is targeting the new service to music artists.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Cheaper devices (Chromebooks and Tablets), better development tools (Unity3d), global distribution platforms (Apple and Google App Stores) and better business models (subscription and freemium) make companies like codeSpark possible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2022

This is the reason that many new startups offer freemium services, and prioritize attracting a large following above making a profit. With today’s worldwide Internet and social media, your brand impact is not set by what you say, but by numbers of followers, influencers, and satisfied customers.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 1, 2011

In such cases, a Freemium solution might be the appropriate initial market foray. To learn how to not launch a Freemium solution, see Making Freemium Customers Pay. A Valuable Brand. Growing up in working-class families, the Beatles wanted to provide their fans with as much value as possible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Risk is more manageable with subscriptions and even freemium pricing. Providing everything free, and growing users to the max for years, like Twitter and Facebook, is a high risk approach requiring deep pockets. Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. Find a strategic partner to accelerate growth.

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Berkonomics

JULY 9, 2015

Email readers, continue here…] Software-as-a-service, often sold in a freemium model with the simple features available at no cost, allows the individual end user to decide on a whim to try out your solution, and IT never even has to know! It is kind of amazing, in retrospect, that any enterprise software was ever purchased.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

If you already have many followers for some limited free offerings, this also becomes a natural freemium upgrade. By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. Private club model.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

This is especially problematic in the Web 2.0 / Freemium world where too many company build their business models around trying to build massive scale of free customers and then convert a small share to low monthly payments. My second company, Koral, tried to go down the freemium route. I guess it has worked for some companies?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Customer Acquisition – social media, SEO, SEM, etc Economies of Scale – not as big a barrier in web world Investment – little to none required to get started Pricing – free or freemium makes trial simple Distribution – syndication and APIs make partnering easier IP – in general the battle has been over users and less on IP many more (please comment (..)

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2020

The most common business models these days include the subscription model, freemium model and ecommerce. The financial model obviously has to be built in concert that the overall business and pricing model that you are implementing. Each has a different set of variables for sales, revenue flow, marketing costs and personnel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Free and freemium products need a solid base. One customer is not traction, and beta tests with a thousand customers at no cost don’t count. Your graph should show that sales have “turned upward” per projections, beyond friends and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2020

If you already have many followers for some limited free offerings, this also becomes a natural freemium upgrade. By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. Private club model.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2011

" 4) Docstoc is deploying a classic Freemium business model by providing tremendous value to your users at no charge. " "I’m a really big fan of Freemium. You’ll be the person who ends up hiring all those MBAs." Yet you also offer premium items via the DocStore.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. 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. Even a conversion rate of one percent can build a healthy business. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Risk is more manageable with subscriptions and even freemium pricing. Providing everything free, and growing users to the max for years, like Twitter and Facebook, is a high risk approach requiring deep pockets. Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. Find a strategic partner to accelerate growth.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

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. We found that over time, users with no credit history whatsovere see their credit score increase over nine months to between 620 and 720.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The startup will generate its revenue through a monthly subscription model, including a freemium option. With this ability, website owners can now build and engage their community, control messaging, user analytics and advertising revenue, while gaining the increased site optimization that comes with keeping users on their website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Freemium model – people pay for upgrade. This is the most common model used by online businesses and apps today, the so-called Facebook model, where your service is free, and the revenue comes from advertising. The challenge is to get the first million customers, before advertisers will sign up. Facebook spent $150 million getting started.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

This relates to another great post Freemium Founders: Start Charging for Things Today! My experiments in lean pricing - Venture Hacks , February 16, 2010 Ash Maurya, a lean entrepreneur who runs a bootstrapped startup called CloudFire, discusses pricing issues for first versions (Minimum Viable Product – MVP).

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

One of the things we have is a freemium model, where not everyone on our app is a client. We don't partner up with family counselors, marriage counselors, psychologists, and thatinstead, we are strong believers that people know what they want, and we are empowering them by giving them the tools.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Especially for free or freemium products, the rate of new signups is critical. You should be counting only those people who fit your target customer demographic and paid full price for the product or service, without any prior connection to you or the business. Is your customer-acquisition rate accelerating?

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