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joisig
7y ago
This is true and is the reason I break my own rule in this case - because of large companies that are only willing to pay through an annual PO/invoice process. None of our customers are quite big enough to require the use of a preferre
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OP here, thanks for chiming in. Mostly responding to say that I love your product Loom, use it several times a week. > If you're taking VC money, you know the ride you're in for. > Don't be naive. And then don't be
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7y ago
OP here. My point is that getting paid yearly, especially if a lot of your subscribers pay yearly, means you're back to a similar feast-or-famine kind of cash flow situation as when you're transactional (e.g. an e-commerce shop).
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I don't have direct experience with Paddle so I don't know whether it's that black and white. Having however experienced a months-long hold on our payment processor account at one point because of an abnormally large charge (
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7y ago
There's some operational cost (for running servers and such), but not that high. There's considerable customer support cost. The main thing that I feel makes life tough is that the pipeline from, say, doing some paid ads and seein
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My company operates on a freemium model. It's a big hassle, as documented in the section about not doing freemium, but it's also something we decided was fundamental to our main distribution channel which is the Chrome Web Store (
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7y ago
Good question (OP here). What I mean is that for example, if you build a Chrome Extension (which is the main way my company's product gets used, so I'm familiar with the pitfalls), you are now at the mercy of Google and how they c
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Rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle
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7y ago
The video embedded in the article plays like a movie trailer or an extended ad for a pharma company. Cool science though.
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Show HN: Remote control from mobile or desktop browser
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Worrying about GDPR? I wrote this guide for startups and small businesses
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3 Tools for Chrome OS Collaboration, Screen Sharing and Online Sales Meetings
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Advice on how to build and quantify buyer personas
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11y ago
Hi, I'm Jói Sigurdsson, founder of CrankWheel. Our tagline is "insanely simple freemium enterprise screen sharing". I think you get the idea :) Would love to answer any questions you might have on our technology. Here ( https
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Screen sharing built with Erlang/Elixir/WebRTC/Chrome Extension
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11y ago
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