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by dh 16y ago
You make some great points and the no support option for free users was something that was and is an option, as I said in the post.
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by dh 16y ago
Totally understand the reasons not to offer this, but we feel it is pretty important the ability to call your billing provider 24/7 and talk to someone as well as a NOC that is staffed 24/7 monitoring all systems. Collecting money is what m
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by dh 16y ago
Very thoughtful response and love the passion. We are in a very limited segment of Chargify customers that actually have many freeium customers and we would love to work with you to make sure pricing works for you. There is much talk about
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by dh 16y ago
Thank you for the feedback and you are right that the pricing does not work for someone with only 4 customers. Keep in mind that starting a business has costs, even opening a bank account and collecting money is pretty core to this so we do
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by dh 16y ago
My name is David Hauser (@dh) and I am a founder at Chargify as well as the Grasshopper Group where I have spent the last 7 years serving hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and helping them to succeed. I want to respond directly here an
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by dh 16y ago
Appreciate the thoughtful response and great to see a competitor growing in the space, brings everyone up.
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by dh 16y ago
We appreciate the feedback from all of our loyal Chargify customers and we will have an update shortly to show we understand this support. A plan only available to those that already have accounts that will be much less and have a smaller n
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by dh 16y ago
What a great question, I was looking for this data for a presentation at gave at FOWA 2010 last week. See slide 30 http://www.slideshare.net/davidhauser/fowa-2010
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by dh 16y ago
Thanks for including Chargify
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by dh 16y ago
This was planned from day one, Google only wanted the massive data set that they collected to improve voice recognition in other areas. Rather than buy it via another channel they acquired this data set with this service.
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by dh 16y ago
Thank you for the very thoughtful write up about the reasons not to build billing and how Chargify has helped. The ownership of CC data is an important topic and many providers talk about the importance of this. Three things to consider 1)
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by dh 16y ago
Glad you think Chargify is the right path, love to hear what flexibility you want that we cannot give.
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by dh 16y ago
Since you have to have your own merchant account, we (Chargify) do not have to deal with the fraud transactions but give you the tools you need like searching for the account to turn it off.
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Toll Free Mishaps: It’s Ok Ochocinco You Aren’t the First(grasshopper.com)
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by dh 16y ago
PayPal might be very quick and easy to get going just like Google Checkout or Amazon Payments but you need to think about what is best for actually serving your customers and making it easier for them to pay. - Standard PayPal Your customer
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SaaS Metrics Guide to SaaS Financial Performance(chaotic-flow.com)
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How I Set Up and Sold a Product Using Unbounce, Wufoo and Chargify(pearanalytics.com)
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by dh 16y ago
Then I would either collect at signup or just after but before use. This will allow you to focus on attracting the right customers and not dealing with a ton of people that will never pay you.
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Should Your Startup Stay Stealth?(readwriteweb.com)
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by dh 16y ago
Amazing company for load balancer based on open source stuff, but with enterprise support. Can run on dedicated hardware or VMWare. http://www.loadbalancer.org
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by dh 16y ago
I would focus on the marketing and project management side and use your other skills to help you. While coders/developers are very valuable to tech startups there is just a valuable position in project and product management which requires
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by dh 16y ago
I would look at how many repeat visitors, how many people share it with another person, and ultimately how many people pay for it. Cause people vote with $ and make a commitment.
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by dh 16y ago
There are so many things you need to look at with this question. The first question I would consider is what is your goal? More signups? More conversion to paid? Less work? Once you have set the goal you can then test it. With out data but
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by dh 16y ago
There is no harm in talking to the right people at anytime. It does not mean you have to raise money right now or that you even find the right partner but you will learn a lot about the business and yourself along the way. If the question i
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by dh 16y ago
I can see the problem from both sides but really Heroku had some more more to gain by just crediting it or most of it in what you would say about them. Clearly by the rules, you should have to pay, but that does not mean that a business sho
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Things to know before starting a company(blog.wepay.com)
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by dh 16y ago
Really the first thing you must decide is that you need to charge as this is the only real way to get validation that what you provide is valuable. Someone needs to give you real dollars for what you do. As for the actual price there are a
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How I Document my Business Model Hypotheses(ashmaurya.com)
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