Lately there’s been a large buzz around the coolness of “Failure”. As cliché as as it may be, there is truth to finding success from failure. Recently, hundreds of people attended a full conference dedicated to the subject. FAILcon. The conference’s focus was on the ability to quick learn from failure, recover, and iterate. With [...]
Today at Y Combinator’s Startup School, Chris Anderson from Wired gave a fascinating presentation on leveraging Business Models (a great Techcrunch summary is available here). With economic times being as challenging as they are, the allure of leveraging “a free service” to build users makes sense. “Freemium” gets people using a service while at the [...]
When entrepreneurs come up with an idea- revenue plans are rarely the first thing that come to mind. After all, asking “how do we solve this incredibly painful business issue” can be a lot more exciting then “how are we going to monetize this”. Since the first dot-com-boom, several models for revenue have come, some [...]