On the Austin Bootstrap messaging boards, there was recently a discussion of free and “freemium” business models. Richard MacKinnon of LessNetworks had a very thoughtful response based on five years of running this type of business model. We asked Richard for permission to re-publish here.
Thoughts on the Free Model
In the early days of free WiFi [...]
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The weekly paper in Lexington Kentucky ran an interesting story by Bill Bishop. Bill is co-author of a book named The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American is Tearing us Apart. The article tells the story about the beginnings of IBM in Austin, and how the split up the typewriter division in Lexington [...]
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So you’re starting up a technology company, bootstrapping it, and you think that someday you might take on additional capital. Which lawfirm in Austin should you use?
This is the dilemma facing many young companies these days. I thought it would be interesting to throw some ideas out there in this post, and then see if [...]
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He’s the favored cartoonist of bloggers, technologists, social media junkies, and many of us just plain folks. He says he developed his style many years ago, and you can spot it a mile away. It’s very distictive, and it’s definitely Hugh MacLeod.
He’s got the elevator pitch down. When people ask him what he does, he [...]
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The war has begun. The first shots have been fired across the bow, and it’s going to get worse before it gets better. It might even rival the intensity of policital mudslinging we will see this summer. What am I talking about?
TechCrunch, the hugely popular technology blog published by Michael Arrington, and Jason Calacanis announced [...]
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A few quick Friday notes…..
Search for something in Austin on Google Maps, and check out that new “Street View” button in the upper right hand corner. As far as I can tell, the Google Maps cars were cruising around Austin in December, 2007.
Is that new “People You May Know” feature in Facebook the most genius, [...]
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It’s a little light on the Austin tech news right now. If we don’t start hearing some interesting things about the emerging technology companies in town, we’re going to starting writing editorials about how silly we think it is for Freescale to announce the acquisition of SigmaTel one day, release SigmaTel earning the next day, [...]
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Rumors are swirling around the internet today that Austin-based Pluck is up for sale. The number being thrown about is $75M. Doug at WebProNews speculates on the possibility of a deal, as does Rafat at PaidContent.org. Over at TowerOne.org they’re speculating that Microsoft could be a potential buyer. After investing around $17M, selling for $75M is [...]
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