Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

Different sources define freemium as a business model or a pricing strategy. To give you a better understanding of the available options when it comes to pricing a SaaS product, I will briefly cover the most popular freemium models. It’s mostly popular with B2C markets. Let’s take a look and find what works best for you.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Last week, in part one of the B2B versus B2C series, I explained there are several reasons as to why entrepreneurs should venture into “B2B” (“Business to Business”) service based companies as opposed to any form of “B2C” (“Business to Consumer”) company, “B2B” product-oriented company or strictly a web-based B2B firm.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

In the torrent of real and fake news, what’s his competitive edge other than name recognition? What seems to be the best way to create customers and revenue may result in a business model that is out of vogue with the investment world and shortchanges you on enterprise valuation. No further conversations ensued.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

Soundtrack Your Brand , founded in 2013 as a joint effort with Spotify, offers businesses world-class tech to provide a valuable all-in-one solution for streaming music in commercial settings, importantly that is properly licensed and ensures correct royalty flow to artists. The B2B market provides more attractive unit economics than B2C.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. Pro Publica has a Nonprofit Explorer database searchable by principal name on all nonprofit filings, so you can see a person’s nonprofit activities. .

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2017

If you choose this pricing model you should keep in mind that it is the one that is hard to scale. Free with ads model is popular within products targeted to B2C markets. It’s always wise to analyze your competitors and see how they’ve chosen to monetize their business.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 9, 2017

Depending on the type of business, this includes everything from legal, machinery, equipment, inventory, overhead, and domain name, to web services. Penalties for failing to register a business can be very costly. Define Your Business Model. Learn About Licenses. Find out if you need one, and if so, what kind?

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

I have a tiny audience compared with the B2C influencers, but my audience are overwhelming businesspeople in tech and finance. But I’m looking for the reverse business model: someone who will help me better grow and monetize my audience, comparable to traditional celebrity talent agents. This is hosted by NFX.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

John Jantsch: I wonder if we could take about five minutes, and I’m going to put you a little bit on the spot for a case study type of idea, because you can read a book how to do SEO, but the fact of the matter is what your business does, what your business objectives are is going to dictate maybe what your priorities should be in SEO.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

It’s proven to work across industries and business models. B2B and B2C. SaaS, ecommerce, lead gen, affiliate models. During the process of heuristic analysis you have to avoid random comments, and strictly stick to assessing the page for named criteria – writing down your “findings”.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 15, 2011

If you are interested in freemium business models or any of the variations on the theme, this is well worth reading however I take issue with a couple of points. This is an interesting discussion and the body of work that can be studied is relatively small and fluid given the immaturity of freemium as a business model.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

It was becoming a business model destined to fail. We were witnessing, firsthand, the dramatic shifts in B2C e-commerce, and the resulting incredible experiences and benefits brands were delivering their retail consumers. The differences between B2C and B2B within the same brands were staggering!

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. INTERNET BUSINESSES. Business Services (B2B). Consumer Services (B2C). Domain Name/Basic Site. Social Services.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Who says Austin can’t do B2C now ? Instead of crying in their beers about it, Cotter and Tom Ball at Austin Ventures decided what to do next and came up with Small Ponds, which later became Whale Shark Media and then RetailMeNot (named after its largest digital property). No matter the name?—?the It is just four-years old?—?for

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Established location-based services to enable the CSP offer B2B and B2C services based on mobile positioning, tracking & locating, turn-by-turn navigation and mobile local search. pic2world provides customers with three products such as commercial tour guide, tour contents exchange community, and automatic tour photo naming management.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

According to research compiled by WebHostingBuzz , r equiring users to enter email addresses, names and other data – and remember yet another set of usernames and passwords – puts them off and you might actually be driving them to other sites that don’t insist on traditional registration alone.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

My name is Crystal Williams, and I maintain a small business blog called Babeofbusiness.com. – Mike [link] Reply Jeff Skinner , on May 24, 2010 at 9:28 am said: Steve, you don’t know me though I use your ‘Customer Development process’ video in my classes (Entrepreneurship at London Business School).

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2017

This attitude is measured through a variety of means , namely the customer’s intention to repurchase, the intention of cross-buying (buy another product from the same company), the intention to switch to a competitor (price tolerance), and intention to recommend the brand/company to other consumers. You know the value of retention.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2017

This attitude is measured through a variety of means , namely the customer’s intention to repurchase, the intention of cross-buying (buy another product from the same company), the intention to switch to a competitor (price tolerance), and intention to recommend the brand/company to other consumers. You know the value of retention.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2020

Ninety-nine percent of products—even from no-name brands—just work. Byron Sharp and the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute have criticized differentiation, arguing that its role in the B2C setting is less important. People know its name. Wonderbly made a splash with their Lost My Name books. This is unimaginable today.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

However, we’d argue that for most smaller managers who are not brand names, it’s better to be highly identified in your niche than being a generalist. 2) Business model-defined funds. B2B vs B2C) within the business model preference. . Most LPs we speak with agree. . 3) Geography-defined funds.

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