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What sort of pricing plan is this? The per-user expense _increases_ as you buy more seats?

https://secure.stairwayapp.com/plans

I guess they figured their utility increases as the meeting grows. It's not like you can segregate people into two meetings and get out of that, either.

Increasing the marginal cost discourages adding users. You punish people for having a lot of users, which creates a pain point, which creates an exploitable opportunity for your competition.

Better to charge a flat rate per user, or follow the 37 Signals example and not charge per user at all.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201206/jason-fried/huge-accounts...

Asana has something like that. More users, bigger network, more meetings, more traffic, more resources.

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