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Freemium models seem like an easy way to get new customers to fall in love with your product. But freemium isn't for every startup. Here's why.
In its simplest form, positioning is an exercise to determine what, who, and where your startup is. And it results in a path that gets you to product-market fit.
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Here are seven reasons why your startup should never serve ads to paying customers. It's not just bad for your customers, it's bad for your business.
Ultimately, startups can live with boring and useful, because they can get past that. Flashy and useless is just a pretty picture of an impending failure.
If you're an entrepreneur and you want to build a substantial product or startup with no-code, you're going to have to think like a coder.
When a startup prices a new product, there are basically seven parts to the equation. It's critical to know these numbers before you whiteboard or brainstorm.
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Pricing a new product requires vision, balance, and timing. When a startup gets those things right, it doesn't matter how wrong you were initially.
Recurring revenue is the key to startup traction and scale. Here are five alternatives to subscription pricing that can encourage repeat business.
Mainstream acceptance of digital communication has resulted in several opportunities for startups -- more funding, more talent, more sales.
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Looking back on a 20+ year career as an entrepreneur, I can count at least five times I found myself actively running two companies at the same time.
A startup can build a successful product by listening to four important people. But these same four people can also lead your business to ruin.
It takes founders a while to understand what type of entrepreneur they are and how to make that work for their startup. Here are the 5 basic types.
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I distill my years of experience running a technical and product development firm to save your startup some headache and maybe even a ton of money.
From two-sided marketplaces to on-demand startup models, there's a lot of misunderstanding about how subscription pricing generates revenue and profit.