Did 37Signals Increase BaseCamp Price or Not? The Backdoor Experiment.
There’s a debate going on about 37Signal’s “hidden” “unannounced” price increase of their popular Basecamp service. Apparently most of the uproar wasn’t so much due to the price hike itself, but the fact that it happened without any announcement. Cinovate Cinovate Cloud Inn. Why did 37 Signal’s Basecamp price double unannounced? http://bit.ly/bLan2a Contact Cinovate for [...]
The Myth of Freemium and Related Pricing Topics
Seth Levine recently wrote a great post on pricing topics for software as a service companies; I agree with what he writes and can relate given a project I have been immersed with that goes to this very topic. Web startups reflexively over complicate their pricing strategy and/or undervalue what they are offering by making [...]
The Bootstrappin’ Team: All Starters
This is my third post on Bootstrapping a Company in the Internet Age. We started with Bootstrappa’s Paradise where I explained why whether you plan to raise VC or bootstrap your idea all the way, both roads are bootstrapping. The world will no longer give you a pile of money for an idea, a slide show, and [...]
Startups Need Starters
Just a short post for my Helpstream Learnings series today: Reading 37Signals latest book, “Rework“, has crystalized a few thoughts I’d been having since Helpstream. It’s a great read, BTW, if you haven’t already checked it out. This particular post is about Starters. The authors of Rework want to drop the term “entrepreneur” and switch to [...]
