Posts Tagged with ‘free-services’

Read any advice about bootstrapping your start-up company and odds are you'll find a tip about using your loyal user base to contribute services to your company. It sounds like a great idea in theory: you have all these people who love what you are doing and want to help. Your users may be willing to code for you or design for you or help localize your app by translating all your pages into languages they speak. The question left [...]

Since the early days of the web, the online subscription model has existed. For many companies it was a primary source of revenue, and as subscribers increased, so did profits.
Now, with so many free services popping up during the web 2.0 phase of the internet, it seems that fewer and fewer people are willing to pay anything for content online. More and more companies are ditching the subscription model in favor of other methods.
Is it just me or are their [...]