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I think you should ask yourself if you really need funding in the first place.

• benologist 17y ago
  The only way we could go it alone would be with no free trial, but that's a pretty tasteless option since we're selling something that's never really existed before to a market that's going to want to play with it before they pay for it. It's an analytics service for casual / social games and in some cases we're talking games that get millions of plays (we've got several like that in our system already) which can translate into tens of millions of events being logged, and while we've spent tons of time making everything as streamlined and cost-efficient as we can there are unavoidable expenses that might predate our ability to pay for them by ourselves.
  • DJN 17y ago
    Hi Ben, I appreciate your concern about scaling your service but I think you should consider a fremium business model that allows you to accommodate more free users at lower cost. Instead of logging tens of millions of events for free users, you could log just a subset, which will allow you to use far fewer servers whilst allowing free users to "evaluate the usefulness of your new service". It will also make sure that the future of your startup is not wholly dependent on external investors. We've done something similar with Trafficspaces. We run our service off Amazon's cloud system, which gives us a lot of flexibility. If you need assistance on how to structure your freemium model to make sense, send me an email at niyi [at] trafficspaces [dot] com.