Ask HN: Article where a Meetup.com guy was talking about taking it 100% paid?

8 points·markbao··8 comments

Can't seem to find it. Anyone have it bookmarked? Paying 5 awesome points.

here you go(scroll down to "dear meetup commmunity"):

http://web.archive.org/web/20080120191653/http://www.meetup....

looks like meetup has removed the page from their site, probably why you couldn't find it.

Hey, thanks!

I was actually looking for a post where one of the founders discussed their metrics after taking their startup 100% paid. He was talking about their process and the amount of setback they experienced.

Right now I work at Meetup, so if you could give a little more detail about what was in the post, I could probably just e-mail Scott and ask him for it directly.

Oh, wow, cool. So the post was talking about how they decided to change from free to paid. He was talking about how they had an initial sharp downard turn in meetups, but eventually recovered.

Thank you!

response i got:

"Hi Yuri, unfortunately I don't recall any specific post I've written about it. I've mentioned & talked about it openly, but no particular post. Sorry"

Ah, no problem. Thank you!

It's not a secret, every meetup organizer has to pay to run a group. From http://www.meetup.com/help/billinghelp/#Doesitcostmoneytosta...

There are 3 price plans: * USD $12 a month for 6 months (a single $72 charge) * USD $15 a month for 3 months (a single $45 charge) * USD $19 per month

Each plan has a 30-day money back guarantee. Organizers can run up to 3 Meetup Groups with their subscription.

For more information on fees, check out: http://orc.meetup.com/archives/2006/02/the_lowdown_on_1.html

Is this what you were looking for?

http://www.intuitive.com/blog/change_your_business_model_and...

This post offers some excellent advice.

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