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Our main product is a desktop application built on top of the Firefox web browser. It is triple licensed GPL/LGPL/MPL. We make money by selling add-ons and a plus version, all of w…

When we launched our commercial SaaS, we initially offered an annual payment only, but ended up adding monthly options in response to user requests. Students, in particular, wanted…

This should be a non-brainer – ie. catering to the non-English users of the Web. I wish I could say we were smart enough to have taken that in to account when we started, but, like…

Done!

We just went through this. We decided to charge in USD. We have a lot of international users, and while people generally know where their own currency stands vis a vi the Greenback…

Thanks much to you (and dtf) for the feedback. Really appreciated. We don't get a lot of press (you'd think that whoever wrote the piece about open source media apps would have at …

Shameless plug time. www.celtx.com - Open source pre-production application for making films, stageplays, audio, AV and comics (so far).

Use a name that doesn't mean anything. It will violate the branding law that a name should impart some sense of what the product/service does, but I think it's worth sacrificing th…

The best I've read wasn't a strategy book per se. 1776 - http://www.amazon.com/1776-David-McCullough/dp/0743226712 by David McCullough was full of useful insights on General George…

celtx - www.celtx.com - a media making app, is built on top of FF (just about to be ported to the 3.* code base).