Zumodrive Launches, Forgets About Transparency
Krish wrote in December about the importance for startups to do the math early and publish their pricing: In the absence of any word about the future pricing plans, users are hesitant to put their data on these storage startups, usually offering generous amounts of storage space. Why would anyone spend their valuable time uploading […]
A Note to Cloud Storage Startups on Pricing
Image via CrunchBase, source unknown Here is a note to all cloud storage startups. Please set your price before going into beta. Almost all the cloud based storage startups I have come across open their business to beta without even having any idea of what they are going to charge for their service in the […]
Successful Funding Round and Monetisation to Boot!
UPDATE – The great guys at Syncplicity were so excited to be mentioned on CloudAve (and who wouldn’t be?) that they’re making a special offer to the first 100 CloudAve readers who reply. They’ll bump the free version from 2GB to 4GB and add 5GB to the paid plans – nice! Just click on this […]
Trust the Cloud, but Have a Backup Plan. Google Lockouts are not Fun.
Just about every few month we get a high-profile case of someone getting shut out of their Gmail and other Google services. Google is notorious for freezing accounts without a warning, often in the users defence, i.e. when they detect probability of hacking. When you’re Loren Baker, Editor of Search Engine Journal and blog about […]
