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by wensing 14y ago
I succeeded at failing to raise money for our company, but spent a long time doing it.
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by wensing 14y ago
I guess it does matter if we are counting the "prime interest" part of the equation or not.
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by wensing 14y ago
If I'm reading his post correctly, it took Gabriel Weinberg 4 months to raise his round, and he still called it quick and painless: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/10/what-i-learned-f...
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by wensing 14y ago
Someone please say something intelligent but not begrudging about the fact that only having to spend 27 days raising $1.1 million is such an abnormally short time frame that while interesting the "lessons learned" will probably not be trans
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by wensing 14y ago
Would love to hear details on that.
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by wensing 14y ago
Despite my warnings, I think freemium can be a brilliant marketing tactic even when it isn't sustainable. Whether or not it's dishonest depends on factors that are partially in the founders control and partially not. When Stormpulse did t
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by wensing 14y ago
Very interesting. I think soft limits could be a great way to go, particularly in situations where the users needs can change (increase) at a moment's notice and their getting value out of the service means not hitting a roadblock that req
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by wensing 14y ago
Bells & Whistles isn't a bad starting place (as my post says, it's the default) and it can create conversions (even the majority), but it can also be a mixed bag of candy with an ROI that's hard to establish because it's simply a buck
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by wensing 14y ago
Yep, sounds like a recipe for startup death, doesn't it?
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by wensing 14y ago
According to most of the freemium gurus, freemium and free trial are not the same thing; the former is defined as having a level of service that is free forever. Obviously free trials are by definition not free forever.
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by wensing 14y ago
While we're all here ... would be interesting to hear other examples (your own or other startups) and where they fit in this loose classification system.
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The Anatomy of Profitable Freemium(wensing.tumblr.com)
133 points by wensing 14y ago|26 comments
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Climate Corp. raises another $50M, led by Founders Fund(gigaom.com)
1 points by wensing 14y ago|0 comments
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by wensing 14y ago
You should be able to differentiate yourself from those projects by focusing on something full-time and adding your unique expertise to the mix. You are a unique human being, after all. If you can't, you shouldn't bother. I created Stormp
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by wensing 14y ago
I wonder what Yammer's revenues are.
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by wensing 14y ago
I have no reason to doubt your talent, but I have an aversion to the "I could do it myself" argument. What does that even mean? You could do it yourself if you had a year to work on it? 10 years? A lot of software contains code icebergs
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by wensing 14y ago
I've had 5 Apple laptops since 2001 and have never had to replace anything. Average time of ownership has only been 2 years, though. Because of the resale value, I've found it's pretty effective to sell the 2-year old and put it towards a
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by wensing 14y ago
The new release of the Stormpulse mapping client is written in haxe with a flash deployment on the web and an iOS app in the app store. It is non-trivial. ;)
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by wensing 14y ago
"don't copy our look and feel" https://twitter.com/about/logos#visual-design Uh, like bootstrap.js? :)
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Freemium Ferrari(wensing.tumblr.com)
3 points by wensing 14y ago|0 comments
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by wensing 14y ago
Has Buffet heard of Twitter? Seriously? The guy is a genius. I'm guessing 'yes'. The only thing I think news papers have over citizen journalists is credibility, editorial and writing quality. Is that all? Sounds like if you can conv
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by wensing 14y ago
Several actually. Which means dude probably knows what he is talking about.
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by wensing 14y ago
Is something wrong with my browser? I see a picture of Page, click it, and then it disappears and all I hear is audio. Is there video somewhere?
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by wensing 14y ago
Got to watch the red fire trail disappear into the clouds over South Florida. So awesome.
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by wensing 14y ago
I'm pretty sure my reaction to this is due to being outside YC & SV, but ... We raised $1.5 million in 10 days and pretty much the whole time we didn’t feel very good. Ten days? Didn't feel very good? That's fundraising? Wow. What
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by wensing 14y ago
I've read (at least) that section of Raising the Bar -- which part of that story is false? That he wasn't actually a bakery owner and professional bicyclist but just an amateur baker and bicycle junkie?
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by wensing 14y ago
It's fine to have two products for different segments within the consumer or business markets, but having one product for consumers and another for businesses is not as simple as changing a single value. Very different customers with diffe
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by wensing 14y ago
I'm surprised with the amount of Apple love in startup-land, more startups don't attempt to emulate their pricing strategy. Instead, we are A/B testing our way to local maxima with products that are supposedly changing the world.
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by wensing 14y ago
True, but keep in mind this logic has diminishing returns. What if we were comparing 1,000 paying $1,000 per month or 100,000 paying $10?
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by wensing 14y ago
They are convinced of the value and therefore less likely to abandon the product because of one negative. Whereas if you aren't sure the app is really doing something for you (making/saving you money), you're more likely to bail and just g

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