> Most of the really successful ideas started without a "pricing" link If you define "success" to mean "lots of traffic" and not "profitable and growing". Cle

> Most of the really successful ideas started without a "pricing" link If you define "success" to mean "lots of traffic" and not "profitable and growing". Clearly this is the case, because half of the companies you listed aren't profitable. There are -lots- of internet companies who charge and are very successful. I'm not talking 37 Signals and Fog Creek - literally drops in the bucket. I'm talking about Amazon, Salesforce, and Google AdWords. Oh and how does Craigslist make money? Charging users. > not charging money has been a successful strategy for a good number of startups. No offense, but you're blowing both the "successful" and "good number" part of this way out of proportion.