Comments on: For Some Web Startups, Freemium Is the Way Forward

By: How Freemium Can Work for Your Startup

How Freemium Can Work for Your Startup — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:19:45 +0000

[...] Since then, those three apps have become indispensable to me as well. And they all happen to be benefiting from the business model championed by venture capitalist Fred Wilson known as “freemium.” They’re not alone — numerous companies have walked down the freemium path since he first wrote about it in 2006, among them Freshbooks, Jott.com, Box.net and of course, the granddaddy of them all, Flickr.com. More recently, San Francisco-based startup Xobni eschewed the ad-supported model to go the freemium route. [...]

By: Martin Thomas

Martin Thomas — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:43:10 +0000

Hi.. Your post got me thinking… What is more valuable for a software company (like facebook or flickr). 1,000 paying users or 100,000 non-paying users? What are your thoughts? View my blog post here: http://www.purlem.com/blog/?p=57

By: Free isn’t a problem, it’s an opportunity. | Taylor Davidson

Free isn’t a problem, it’s an opportunity. | Taylor Davidson — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:03:24 +0000

[...] Engaging, educating, thinking, sharing, helping, competing: it’s the only way we’ll move forward. [...]

By: Gary Jung

Gary Jung — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:35:32 +0000

Freemium is truly the way to go. I use it in my photography business and it has multiplied my sales. People learn to value the quality of your product and it creates a trust relationship which is so important for establishing a long-term business relationship with your customers.

By: Social Media Evangelist

Social Media Evangelist — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:51:25 +0000

Freemium makes sense. How many clones can survive on free offerings?? I believe a site that charges a premium is more trustworthy than an everything-for-free site!

By: David Robins

David Robins — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:07:31 +0000

Freemium is the wave of the future and more companies will embrace it to survive!

By: rama

rama — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:40:20 +0000

i think it’s great that freemium model become more popular. This way end user can somehow get use to pay small fee to use their favorite app. Right now, app users are used to do everything for free and now they can support their favorite app by paying. And of course the app developer will get more revenue to develop their app.