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Kevin Watson

A VC: Freemium and Freeconomics - 1 views

  • the Internet allows an entrrepreneur to enter a market with a free offering because the costs of doing so are not astronomical. And most entrpreneurs who take this approach will maintain an attractive free offering of their basic service forever. But that doesn't mean that everything they offer will be free. That's the whole point of freemium. Free gets you to a place where you can ask to get paid. But if you don't start with free on the Internet, most companies will never get paid.
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      Not everything in the world will be free in a "free economy". "Free" is just a ploy to get you into a position where you will want to buy better things to work with.
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    Blog Article about Chris Anderson's book "Free" with some great insights on freemiums and what they will do to the economy.
Kevin Watson

Uh-merican: Pet Rocks - 0 views

  • Only in America could a guy like Dahl take advantage of so many people. I know I have probably paid for dumb things in my lifetime, like Keds shoes or canned beets, but seriously, a rock?
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    Have you ever heard of pet rocks? Thinking about FarmVille and all the services you pay actual money for online for virtual things made me think of them. Check out this blog post about them, and tell me it's not ridiculous. 
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