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Why Free Plans Don't Work

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Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The following is a guest article by Ruben Gamez of Bidsketch. Not too long ago it seemed like every product I knew was offering some sort of free plan. The strategy was brilliant: get loads of people using your product and eventually turn them into paying customers.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising.