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Pay-as-you-go has several clear benefits especially for startup pricing model. There’s a very low barrier to entry for customers, and offers them more flexibility around the products they want and when they want them.

Why it is essentially good for startup pricing model

- Smaller barrier to entry - No commitment - Better cost-per-use

A customer doesn’t need to commit to a prescribed plan and get charged on a monthly basis. They just pay once for a product or service and then start using it. It works well for products that are needed infrequently.

Consumers don’t have to make a commitment up front and can budget accordingly. Pay-as-you-go works for well in regions like Africa and I think that is why some international businesses struggle to gain market in certain region.

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Exactly, doing the same as well. Easier to keep your options open.

I think you're talking about https://blendle.com/

Exactly and this should become a mantra for startups to follow, knowing that there is no miracle but hard work and strong flexibility for change/pivot when necessary

No need to constantly email anyone for dead products but the gallery is a very good idea.

This is a very important topic, in fact, I was almost making a service that would somehow help people share their online identities/access to their next of kin if such incident should occur.

Unfortunately, the feedbacks wasn't so good, I had to shut it down.

I don't think any SINGLE social media company can solve this.

Except the world is built around business and business needs to make money and making money is by making product development faster and simpler.

+1 This is what I've been doing lately.

Wow, basically extra work for you weekly?

This doesn't come as a surprise, all these money-making companies that intend to disrupt education should be closed down if they're as equally as expensive as going to a state university

I should have raised this issue long time ago but why should I do so, after all its not like they're paying me to fix their shits.

I basically moved from Skype to Zoom.us with all my clients

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Not profitable now but hoping it will it sometime next year.

I agree totally, one thing I've noticed lately from AngelList is that your request gets accepted and emails are shared but you never hear from them again or hear things like "I thought you're in the US".

I'm having a feeling this might be another way of collecting emails

I really love your facts, knowing that the journey wont be easy but its all about the things you want in life and you also have to learn to enjoy the process

Personally, I think this a great thing for creatives and researchers, knowing they can spend as much time as they need to create real value for people without having to think of revenue or investors profits.

I heard/read Swiss denied this proposal though, what a shame.

Great, thanks :)

Tech industry: I want to be able to go to Mars for the weekend... leaving on Friday and coming back early Monday morning.

This is still a big problem in tech industry.

Medium does this too, no option to cancel. You can only click later. Tired of growth growth growth by all means...

Quite sensible. The more options the better

Exactly what I thought myself after reading the article, it is totally logical (business-wise) to have an established market they can easily capture once their cars gets rolling.

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So to put this simple, I have to pay for what I don't even want in the first place?

All these making money companies, pay this pay that

Another good one is www.techcabal.com

You have a valid point, not everyone is lost but obviously everyone seems to be digging in the same ship just for the sake of it. If you try to understand more of what OP is trying to say, then you will know that there are more problems created than solution.

It's getting more difficult for beginners to catch up or even were to start from (see lots of those questions on Quora), perhaps we need to reexamine things rather than building 4million cars a day only to realize we have global warming.

It's really hard to tell the success of an idea and I think one investor mentioned in the email that they don't understand the market so it would make it hard to nurture such products.

They simply cannot invest in all ideas, just because Brian got lucky doesn't makes it applies to all startups

#18 ... hmm

== Paradoxically, the solution is to stop thinking of startup ideas in terms of solving problems in the early stages of startup germination, and instead start thinking in terms of changes in the economic environment and the opportunities these changes unlock. ==

strong point, exactly what I have been thinking lately while trying to understand every single products Google acquires. I still think there are rooms for innovation.

It does actually makes sense since they have all the resources (MAP,CAR,MONEY)