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You're assuming that people are willing to pay for your product up front for 12 months. If your price point is so small that an annual subscription is under $20, then it doesn't re…

Strange that no one is ever commended for preventing a failure, only attacked when one occurs.

that's exactly the answer I was looking for. Thank you.

$10 - $30 yearly. Of course if I worked at a company that used this (like a sales organization) I would probably have a whole ton of licenses.

I schedule a ton of meetings and go through the same headache all the time: 1. Send email "what dates work for you?" 2. Reply email "how about these dates?" 3. Reply email "can do …

I would definitely agree that there is a time and a place to debt-spend your way to profitability. But consider the fact that some companies, even once they have hit the ball out o…

Lots of people want YouTube and it is on track to lose nearly $500 million this year. The fact that Google bought it doesn't mean they've created a business. Build something people…

I always notice people seem to read this book and assume that it's an instructional manual on how to live. It's just making points about the fundamentals of power.

I think it's a travesty that he was beaten down so bad by the negativity that he had to leave in the first place. This wasn't a vacation, it was a retreat - for the wrong reasons.

I love how people confuse "selling to Google" with a viable business. Just because you sell the company (YouTube) doesn't mean the business was successful. It just means you've han…

The reality is that the Web is so big now that you can start smaller firms for next to nothing in lots of niche markets. That doesn't mean VC is broken, it just means that smaller …

Agreed. Part of what I'm wondering is how viable the venture model is when the amount of revenue a category can generate gets quickly reduced from a free competitor that can operat…

Revenue

In the last 7 year Web cycle, how many Web "successes" do we know about that had greater than $20M in real revenue and were sold? I can probably think of about 20, but not 50 or 10…

It's true about those who are endlessly fueled by creating something - that doesn't change. You might not do it for money, but I'm not sure that really matters. I sold my first com…

This is a very familiar path among hyper growth companies - the point where the expense of growth outstrips their ability to convert to revenue. As long as the site keeps growing a…

I'm just not seeing the ad dollars add up. I know of sites doing millions of uniques per month that can barely earn enough in Adsense (not the best model) to pay the cost of server…

This whole line of thinking is great for companies as a whole. If it forces more companies to be more responsible and efficient with capital, I don't see a problem.

Not really the point when discussing the investor market. If companies don't have quick exits, the typical venture investor can't make their fund operate. That said, I do believe b…

Why not just give the $700b to healthy banks so that they can lend to businesses and credit worthy consumers? If we have $700b to give, why use it to buy up toxic debt? I understan…

At Swapalease we tried different offer combinations on our payment page including price ranges, price/offer packages, and free trials. Pretty much every price and feature combinati…

I'll stick with my gallardo and continental gt. nothing compares to listening to a v10/12 rip the road apart! although admittedly, I do miss a stick shift.

Why is it so hard to figure out that certain executives command a certain pay? If Wamu paid less, they wouldn't get the guy they are looking for. It's supply and demand. There are …

This is great - can you drop me an email at wschroter at yahoo so I can follow-up?

If you'd be willing to share more details, pls email me wschroter at yahoo