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Freemium Is The New Piracy In The SaaS World

Freemium Is The New Piracy In The SaaS World

By Chirag Mehta on September 7, 2011

It is estimated that approximately 41% of revenue, close to $53 billion, is “lost” in software piracy. This number is totally misleading since it assumes that all the people who knowingly or unknowingly pirated software would have bought the software at the published price had they not pirated it. RIAA also applies the same nonsense [...]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Software Alliance, cloud computing, Copyright infringement, freemium, Piracy, saas

Now You Can Get Your Google Apps Data Backed Up for Free.  Startup Econ 101: When Giving it Away is a Good Deal.

Now You Can Get Your Google Apps Data Backed Up for Free. Startup Econ 101: When Giving it Away is a Good Deal.

By Zoli Erdos on March 15, 2011

Ouch that’s a longish title. OK, I admit, I am tired, could not decide between two messages and ended up combining them.  Well, let’s see the messages. The Art of Pricing The other day I got into a tweet convo with a Startup Entrepreneur whose product I found interesting, at least at first glance.  But [...]

Posted in Application Software, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged backup, crowdsourced marketing, data security, freemium, google apps, google calendar, google docs, Spanning Backup, Spanning Sync, startup econ, startup pricing | 1 Response

Enterprise microblogging should be pay-per-use

Enterprise microblogging should be pay-per-use

By Martijn Linssen on January 7, 2011

An article by Dennis Howlett about Socialtext and Yammer yesterday caught my attention. In essence SocialText announces that they’ll sell their product at 80% of Yammer’s price (being very brief here) but I think they’re both wrong. Social has its own Pareto rule: 90-9-1 versus the old-fashioned 80-20. It means that 1% of people creates [...]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 1.0, 2.0, adapt, change, cloud computing, financials, freemium, knowledge, microblogging, pareto, pay per use, social media, socialtext, yammer | 4 Responses

Salesforce.com Acquires DimDim

Salesforce.com Acquires DimDim

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 6, 2011

Image via CrunchBase Salesforce.com (see previous CloudAve coverage) today announced that it is acquiring DimDim, a low priced Webex competitor, for approximately 31 Million in cash. DimDim was founded in 2007 with its development office in Hyderabad, India. They offered real time collaboration service with video, presentation, whiteboard, etc.. I have been using/following DimDim ever [...]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged acquisition, briefs, chatter, collaboration, dimdim, freemium, gotomeeting, m&a, salesforce, salesforce.com, video collaboration, webex | 4 Responses

Sonoa Rebrands As Apigee, New Premium Features Added

Sonoa Rebrands As Apigee, New Premium Features Added

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 22, 2010

Sonoa Systems (See our previous coverage of Sonoa), a provider of enterprise API management solutions, today announced that they are rebranding as Apigee, which, so far, was a free API tools platform helping developers easily tap into the APIs of modern social networks and other web applications. The rebranding removes confusion on their offerings and [...]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged analysis, Apigee, APIs, enterprises, freemium, paas, rebranding, sonoa systems

SaaS Product Marketing – Upgrade and Upsell Strategy

SaaS Product Marketing – Upgrade and Upsell Strategy

By Joel York on September 16, 2010

I think it would be hard to overemphasize the importance of upgrades and upsells in SaaS product marketing. In an industry where free trials, freemium versions, bargain basement subscription prices and simply hoping to recover customer acquisition cost with first year revenue are the norm, few things are sweeter than a customer that actually [...]

Posted in Featured Posts, Marketing | Tagged chaotic flow, freemium, marketing, saas, SaaS Blog, SaaS Marketing, saas product, saas revenue, sales, upgrade, upsell, upselling | 1 Response

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Freemium model of employment

By Dan Morrill on September 15, 2010

There are always risks to finding a job, one of the ways you can look for something to do while you are looking for the perfect gig is to do many forms of volunteerism. One other option though is the “Freemium Model” of employment where you give your time to a company for a percentage [...]

Posted in Business | Tagged compensation, employment, freemium, startups, stock options

Doing Well By Doing Good, Atlassian Ramps up Philanthropy (Again)

Doing Well By Doing Good, Atlassian Ramps up Philanthropy (Again)

By Ben Kepes on October 9, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Earlier this year Atlassian successfully achieved its objective of raising $100000 for Room to Read, an organization that builds schools, libraries in rural communities in Nepal, Cambodia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Laos, Zambia. They offered a Five licenses for $5 campaign for their products, with all proceeds going to the charity. Philanthropy isn’t a [...]

Posted in Enterprise, Marketing, Strategy | Tagged atlassian, bamboo, confluence, crowd, fisheye, freemium, greenhopper, jay simons, jira, philanthropy, room to read

The New Economics of Technology Startups?

The New Economics of Technology Startups?

By Guest Posts on September 22, 2009

I have recently been reading the book “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” by Chris Anderson.  Well I am not actually reading it as I find I do not have time for reading books any more.  These days I do all of my “book reading” using audio books from Audible.com.  I find that by [...]

Posted in Analysis, Strategy | Tagged advertising, business models, Economics, freemium, michaud, software revenue, startups

Free Sometimes Comes at a Huge Cost

Free Sometimes Comes at a Huge Cost

By Ben Kepes on September 2, 2009

The other day I was having lunch with a bunch of technology entrepreneurs and the subject came up of the falling service levels we all experience. The conversation was particularly around the telecommunications field but could have easily been any aspect of commerce. The chap sitting next to me had a particular perception; When I [...]

Posted in General, Strategy | Tagged bloggerm feedburner, freemium, omniture, phil wainewright, price, pricing, telco | 6 Responses

Not All "Free" is Created Equal

Not All "Free" is Created Equal

By Derek Pilling on July 27, 2009

I’m still mired in reading Chris Anderson’s latest book; “Free”. I doubt I’ll finish it. 130+ pages in, I haven’t discovered anything illuminating. In fact, I’d argue that by combining a number of very different applications of free under one umbrella, Anderson does not clarify free, but rather makes it more confusing. For example, a business model [...]

Posted in Marketing, Strategy | Tagged business models, chris anderson, free, freemium, pricing, value

Another Online ScreensharingTool – and Another Rant About Freemium

Another Online ScreensharingTool – and Another Rant About Freemium

By Ben Kepes on June 17, 2009

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the excitement I felt hearing that Web meeting application Yuuguu was integrated with Skype. Hot on the heels of that I was contacted by the creators of Mikogo, another online meeting, web presentation and remote support application creator. So what is Mikogo? It’s a desktop sharing [...]

Posted in Product reviews, Strategy | Tagged beamyourscreen, freemium, mikogo, yuuguu | 4 Responses

Are Free Customers Disposable?

Are Free Customers Disposable?

By Krishnan Subramanian on May 6, 2009

Image by CC Chapman via Flickr Phil Wainewright writes on ZDNet.com about how web giants are treating their customers More than any of these acts, though, the most constructive change would be to get rid of the mindset that leads these Web giants to belittle the circumstances of its ‘consumers’. Is it unreasonable of us [...]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged business models, customer support, free users, freemium, saas, support | 2 Responses

Has SaaS Killed OSS?

Has SaaS Killed OSS?

By Ben Kepes on January 30, 2009

Anish Kapoor, CEO of SaaS web conferencing start-up YuuGuu posted asking whether SAAS has killed open source as a business model. His contention that in fact this is the case was articulated as follows; Open source is always driven by… a central body that leads community development efforts to support developers and build revenue streams. [...]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged business model, freemium, open source, oss, pay-as-you-go, saas, software, yuuguu | 5 Responses

Counterpoint: Did Jott Betray Their Users?

Counterpoint: Did Jott Betray Their Users?

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 14, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Yesterday, Zoli posted about Jott’s decision to do away with the free model. My philosophy is that it costs money on the infrastructure front to host web based services and it is OK to charge for the Web 2.0 or SaaS applications. However, Jott’s move from freemium to completely paid option brings [...]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged freemium, jott, pricing, saas, web business models | 3 Responses

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