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by mgk 14y ago
Our main product is a desktop application built on top of the Firefox web browser. It is triple licensed GPL/LGPL/MPL. We make money by selling add-ons and a plus version, all of which is also sold under an OSS license (modified BSD). Simil
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by mgk 16y ago
When we launched our commercial SaaS, we initially offered an annual payment only, but ended up adding monthly options in response to user requests. Students, in particular, wanted a monthly option, so you might want to keep in mind the age
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by mgk 17y ago
This should be a non-brainer – ie. catering to the non-English users of the Web. I wish I could say we were smart enough to have taken that in to account when we started, but, like most, we were oblivious to the fact, and only ended up awak
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by mgk 17y ago
Done!
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by mgk 17y ago
We just went through this. We decided to charge in USD. We have a lot of international users, and while people generally know where their own currency stands vis a vi the Greenback, we surmised that they wouldn't be nearly as familiar with
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by mgk 17y ago
Thanks much to you (and dtf) for the feedback. Really appreciated. We don't get a lot of press (you'd think that whoever wrote the piece about open source media apps would have at least Googled around a bit beforehand...), but the WOM is wo
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by mgk 17y ago
Shameless plug time. www.celtx.com - Open source pre-production application for making films, stageplays, audio, AV and comics (so far).
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by mgk 17y ago
Use a name that doesn't mean anything. It will violate the branding law that a name should impart some sense of what the product/service does, but I think it's worth sacrificing that dogma in favor of having a name that: 1. Will derive a de
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by mgk 18y ago
The best I've read wasn't a strategy book per se. 1776 - http://www.amazon.com/1776-David-McCullough/dp/0743226712 by David McCullough was full of useful insights on General George Washington and how he used his smarts to defeat the enem
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by mgk 18y ago
celtx - www.celtx.com - a media making app, is built on top of FF (just about to be ported to the 3.* code base).