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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Austin-based Hyper9 (formerly InovaWave) announced additional funds in their $7.2M Series B round from Maples Investments. Mike Maples Jr. is a former Austinite, and was previously an executive with Motive and Tivoli. His first fund at Maples Investments was staked with around $15M from Austin Ventures, and that fund is invested in startups such as [...]
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It all started during SXSW 2008 at Porter Novelli’s big Mix and Six kickoff party. I met Pete Cashmore, and the Mashable crew was talking about doing events all across the country. No nationwide tour of tech hotspots would be complete without a stop in Austin, and it wasn’t long before I started working with [...]
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SeedStage Studios is launching a series of services today that are squarely aimed at the early stage technology companies in Austin. The company produces creative video for emerging companies. Company co-founder Charles Dykes tells us “The corporate spoofs that are so prevalent on the web today might be a fun way to experiment with media, [...]
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Spiceworks, the ad supported, Austin-based IT management company, has announced a pretty cool feature for their 400,000 IT managers -crowdsourcing. The new features, called SpiceLists, enable users to collaboratively develop, share, and rank IT best practices, products and services, and reports – making it even easier for them to manage their networks. The SpiceLists address [...]
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Next Wednesday July 30th the people behind Mashable.com, the top social networking and social media blog, will be in Austin. They’re here for the Austin stop of the Mashable Summer Tour in conjunction with Austin Tech Happy Hour.
Pete Cashmore, Mark Rizzin, and Karen Hartline will be in town to see what Austin’s got goin’ on in the [...]
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You can add ActaCell to the growing list (2 so far!) of highly secretive battery technology companies in Austin. The company announced a $5.8M Series A financing today.
ActaCell is creating some sort of new technology in the Lithium-Ion battery market, and has been in the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) for several months now. It appears [...]
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If your iPhone application is in the iPhone app store, and you’re an Austin-based company, we’d like to hear from you. We’re searching, and so far we see zippo. Zero. Nothing.
Please ping the editor [at] austinstartup with dot com as the top level domain.
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There’s been lots of local conversation about how to unite a group of people with a common interest — those who create technology startups. There are great resources like the Rice Alliance, ProductCamp, Texchange, the Austin Technology Council, and many many more. If you’re not familiar with the grassroots efforts of the folks behind the [...]
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The Dallas Cowboys are getting into the social media craze. Tapping Austin’s Pluck for assistance, the Dallas Cowboys have announced plans to add social media capabilities across the team’s fan and retail sites. Given the intersection of sports and technology, this combination makes sense for all football fans out there. According to Derek Eagleton, internet [...]
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