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I started this company with two other friends from YC companies: Nick Alexander and Michael Yuan. It was really to scratch a personal itch: online pricing. Wh

I started this company with two other friends from YC companies: Nick Alexander and Michael Yuan. It was really to scratch a personal itch: online pricing. When you're selling something online (especially a virtual good) choosing a fair price is hard. Most people (including me) seem to guess. I felt like there must be a better way, where econ & math is used instead of intuition. Freshplum grew out of that. After building the company to solve that need we realized that analytics can help online businesses in several different ways - not just pricing. We now how a more holistic focus on helping companies understand their online business through analytics.

vlad 14y ago
Congrats Sam. Sam and Nick have generously hosted me during previous Startup Schools, including during crunch-time of their first Y Combinator startups years ago, even though we barely knew each other, so I'm forever grateful. Are you guys going to post some visual or marketing on the product? When DropBox 'launched' on Hacker News, Drew posted just a video. Even though it didn't have any actual pictures of the product, it got me excited. Unrelated, I notice we have the same top color of abcdef. I read your user profile because I'm launching a Google Chrome extension for Hacker News (later today) that shows profiles via a popup inside the story. I'm currently working on my own demo video for it before I post the link, but maybe I should just launch now, too!
mattjaynes 14y ago
Congrats Sam! For any newcomers, Sam is one of the earliest HN members and has been around making great contributions to the community since the very very early days. All the best in your new venture!
louhong 14y ago
Sam, congrats on the raise. Can you elaborate on the pricing for online sales? Would this include subscription services as well or just (one time) virtual good/digital sales?
rokhayakebe 14y ago
Can you please tell us if and how you are using Freshplum to price Freshplum?

vlad 14y ago

Congrats Sam. Sam and Nick have generously hosted me during previous Startup Schools, including during crunch-time of their first Y Combinator startups years ago, even though we barely knew each other, so I'm forever grateful. Are you guys going to post some visual or marketing on the product? When DropBox 'launched' on Hacker News, Drew posted just a video. Even though it didn't have any actual pictures of the product, it got me excited. Unrelated, I notice we have the same top color of abcdef. I read your user profile because I'm launching a Google Chrome extension for Hacker News (later today) that shows profiles via a popup inside the story. I'm currently working on my own demo video for it before I post the link, but maybe I should just launch now, too!

mattjaynes 14y ago

Congrats Sam! For any newcomers, Sam is one of the earliest HN members and has been around making great contributions to the community since the very very early days. All the best in your new venture!

louhong 14y ago

Sam, congrats on the raise. Can you elaborate on the pricing for online sales? Would this include subscription services as well or just (one time) virtual good/digital sales?

rokhayakebe 14y ago

Can you please tell us if and how you are using Freshplum to price Freshplum?