Continuing the theme on pricing software. The start up is going very well. Next week will be very interesting, a very big moment. When we announce the new pricing model I’ll let you now how it works and send you a link to the site.
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After attending MinneBar this year, I’ve been much more interested in software startups and how to a real business going. I’m working right now with Hardy to get his product out and creating innovative pricing schemes to get the the start up going.
I’m a software hippie by heart. I always have been and probably always will be. I don’t like paying for inferior products and I definitely don’t like overpaying. I’d rather feel like I am a part of a community that is working together to make better tools and products.
This book is a quick read and well worth it if your thinking about pricing your product in a Web 2.0 world.
This is Going to Get Real Annoying
NY Times “Meter Model” Coming in 2011
Slate’s Take on NY Times Announcement
I’m already sick of the Pandora 40 hours a month limit for free use, now the NY Times wants me to meter me too!
It’s not that I want everything for free, although it would be nice, when I pay for something I want something I can keep. I don’t get to keep the songs Pandora streams to me, I can’t even pick a song I want to listen too! If I wanted to rent songs, I do it from a service where I get all the songs I want, like Napster or Rhapsody. I don’t use those services because I can keep the songs I downloaded.
The metering model is like just a subscription service with a really big carrot.
Sorry, NY Times and Pandora, but once the carrot is gone, I’m gone. We’ll see who wins in the end. Right now, I think I’ve got the momentum, and the this new model you’re hoping will work, won’t.
