Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Freemium model – people pay for upgrade. Advantages for your business include a stable revenue stream, customer retention, and increasing customer investment over time. The challenge is to get the first million customers, before advertisers will sign up. Facebook spent $150 million getting started.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2013

Silicon Valley’s 9+, an accelerator founded by serial entrepreneur and company builder Peter Relan is investing $110,000 into game developers to quit developing games and shift to consumer, mobile, Big Data and wearable apps. 110,000 to quit developing games for wearable apps. 2 million raised.

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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. in Computer Science.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

As a serious entrepreneur, you have more invested than any outsider, so you should be looking for the same evidence and not believing your own hype. Especially for free or freemium products, the rate of new signups is critical. Is your customer-acquisition rate accelerating?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

It's not a freemium model. I believe the key here is key, and the ability to provide this for free, which is why we took the recent investment. First, for folks who haven't used your service, what is Freebinar? Costin Tuculescu: Freebinar.com is a completely free alternative for web conferencing and webinar users.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Yet I still recommend apps as a good starting target for aspiring technical entrepreneurs, since they don’t require a large initial investment, and you can learn an incredible amount about the realities of business, without risking a lifetime of effort and several investor fortunes. This freemium model has been used for years by web apps.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

is a decent security solution, startups should be aware that ‘freemium' VPN services tend to profit by displaying ads and tracking your data. Best Cybersecurity Tools for Startups With online attacks costing businesses more and more each year , investing in cybersecurity is no longer optional. While Hide.me

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2014

Freemium model. This also requires a huge investment to get to critical mass, and real work to differentiate and sell premium services to convert users to paying customers. Startup advantages include a more stable revenue stream, easier customer retention, and increasing customer investment over time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2013

Freemium” model. This also requires a huge investment to get to critical mass, and real work to differentiate and sell premium services to “convert” users to paying customers. Startup advantages include a more stable revenue stream, easier customer retention, and increasing customer investment over time.

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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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InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

Send them a private message via Twitter or Quora that contains a compelling link relevant to their investment focus. Step 4: Reconnaissance Mission, Under Promise – An effective technique for acquiring investment capital is to initially not ask for money. Follow them on Twitter, Quora and become familiar with their Facebook presence.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

From the companies around us and others we've seen, the one thing I'd always tell them, is that it's easy to not focus on the product, and just focus on earning an investment, but you have to do both. Other than that, I don't really see a downside for a company that is trying to raise money, if they are close to product.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2010

I met this person at the Open Angel Forum last week but I’m worried that he may have invested in a competitor – should I be concerned?&# Send me a second email that I can forward. Ask me something very narrow that I can answer without typing a whole blog post length response. But you hate email!?!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Free and freemium products need a solid base. But never forget that traction is necessary, but may not be sufficient, to lower the risk perception of investors, and assure an investment. One customer is not traction, and beta tests with a thousand customers at no cost don’t count.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2012

Freemium” model. This also requires a huge investment to get to critical mass, and real work to differentiate and sell premium services to users locked-in as free. This is a good model for getting your foot in the door, but be aware that this is basically a services business with the product as a marketing cost.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Club Cooee uses a freemium service model, with the upsell focused on the sale of virtual goods. Coincidentally, Lemper was the partner responsible for Internet and Software investments at the time, and chose to transfer his focus to Club Cooee.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

According to Albert Oaten, VP Market Development at SecureDocs , "The number of people that negotiate by saying, ''This doesn''t look like it costs you very much so I don''t know why you don''t charge to cover your costs plus a little extra or have a freemium option,'' is surprisingly large. > The Customer Is Not Always King.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2010

Freemium” model. This also requires a huge investment to get to critical mass, and real work to differentiate and sell premium services to users locked-in as free. This is a good model for getting your foot in the door, but be aware that this is basically a services business with the product as a marketing cost.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2012

One of our most recent titles, using the freemium model, is Jewel Factory, a sandbox game with a great mini game within. We've always invested in relationships with partners, whether they were Verizon or AT&T, where I'm on the developer advisory council for them. Talk about how you went from JAMDAT to Mobile Deluxe?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Let me start by saying that Clayton is one of the most influential people on my thoughts about markets that led to both the concept behind my first startup and my main theses in investing. We had a brief chat on his views of “Freemium.” Some money out of every investment. Internationalization of Technology.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2011

We thought it would be interesting to hear about why KidZui is investing in original content, so we spoke with Cliff Boro , KidZui's CEO. Our best known and first product was the KidZui browser, which we started as a paid service, went freemium, and went entirely free in October of 2010. Give us an overview on KidZui.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Our business model is based on what is called a “Freemium” model: Standard functionality on exploreB2B can be used for free. We received seed funding from Investitionsbank Berlin , a state bank investing in innovation and technological advancements. Our goal is to provide the only truly international B2B platform. Any funding yet?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

Whether it be taking in information, learning, executing, or increasing our output, or investing it into relationships and health, this is the goal for the time we gained. From a piece of content, to a full business model with ‘freemium’ features and a vision. It is exactly the reason why we so earnestly pay to save time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Foster experiments that don’t require major investments, rather than “big bang” solutions. Many companies these days start with a single online-only purchase model, but later move to providing subscription services and freemium alternatives. This requires reframing problems to motivate creative thinking and finding new approaches.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Entrepreneurism / Monetization fan culture, freemium, User engagement. . It's generally thought that investment banking and management consulting are terrible backgrounds fo. Four Flavors of Freemium. Freemium' at its core has become rather widely known and accepted as a business model these days, y. But how do you get.

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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. <Small plug> – I invested in an awesome company called … awe.sm … that is a performance tracking tool that let’s you measure efficacy of channels like this (email, facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc.)

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Timing your startup - Chris Dixon , November 7, 2010 I never had the opportunity to invest in YouTube but I have to admit that if I did I probably would have passed (which of course would have been a huge mistake). It is also true that there are good deals and good entrepreneurs that can't find anyone to invest in them. Keep going.

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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). angel investing tips. clearly didn’t cause this.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Proactively implementing new business models, like subscriptions and “freemium” pricing, are good risks, while linearly lowering old product prices is a bad risk. Of course there is work involved to find the right media, and balance the investment against the return. Partner with a competitor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2011

Proactively implementing new business models, like subscriptions and “freemium” pricing, are good risks, while linearly lowering old product prices is a bad risk. Of course there is work involved to find the right media, and balance the investment against the return. Partner with a competitor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2010

Proactively implementing new business models, like subscriptions and “freemium” pricing, are good risks, while linearly lowering old product prices is a bad risk. Of course there is work involved to find the right media, and balance the investment against the return. A dynamic product line, rather than a single product.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I’m often asked by people what investment areas interest me. I try to invest in things that I know and that I believe I might have better knowledge and relationships than the masses of VCs. But one theme in pervasive in all my thinking about investing in Internet-based companies: Deflationary economics. Here’s what I mean.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Grade A Entrepreneurs , September 5, 2010 Why Krispy Kreme failed in Australia - Start Up Blog , November 3, 2010 Mellow Johnny’s: Retail Stores as Community Hubs - IDDICTIVE.COM , July 14, 2010 Is crowdfunding an option for my business?

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