Some nice quotes or thoughts of mine:
“2% average customer conversion from free to premium”
“resons for free: time to understand, distribution benefit, network benefit (add value to the ecosystem)”
“might be more important indirect revenue stream (ads) than direct (recurring billing)”
“company can get a double personally due to free/paid features”
“optmize to less surprise. People prefer to pay a higher tier that necessary”
“at the very beggining launch your beta product and also beta business model.”
“limited features or limited capacity?”
“be agile and iterate your business model”
“from my study on 25 freemium model companies the free/payed convertion rate was between 3 to 5%”
“20 to 25% conversion rates? You’re smoking something…”
“entrepreneur live in a reality distortion field”
“let people go deep into your product and start love. Then they pay something”
“customers do not pay for features. They don’t pay for analytics, for better support…”
“raising prices is easier than lowering”
“in the SaaS business 50-60% of staff are in tech support on normal business software 50-60% are in sales”
“many signups, no real usage: wrong. Start collecting analytics on user usage”
“don’t make people think [about paying you on one-time payments]”
“you make what you measure”
“recurly.com and chargify.com help you out”