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Re:Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews... by chaosmachine on Sunday February 21, 2010 @07:40AM (#1140515)
I was just going to post the same thing. If I was an interviewee, I'd be kind of pissed I'd given my time for free, just so someone else could throw it behind a paywall.
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Re:Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews... by melvinram on Sunday February 21, 2010 @10:12AM (#1140640)
If you were one of his interviewees, you'd understand that hard work must be rewarded. Business models change with time. Every successful entrepreneur (including his interviewees) knows that. I highly doubt they'll perceive this as bait & switch.
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Re:Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews... by swombat on Sunday February 21, 2010 @01:02PM (#1140921)
Why would they not perceive it as bait and switch? It is bait and switch.

I don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with bait and switch - it's a common marketing tactic - but let's call a cat a cat.

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Re:Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews... by bob345 on Sunday February 21, 2010 @03:28PM (#1141185)
You're relying your argument on an assumption. Fail.
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Re:Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews... by swombat on Sunday February 21, 2010 @03:32PM (#1141192)
Syntax error.
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Re:Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews... by ArcticCelt on Sunday February 21, 2010 @09:15AM (#1140562)
I am tempted to start contacting some of his old interviewees and ask them what they think about it. I'll ask them to contact him if they are pissed by the fact that they were tricked into giving their free time. Many of them precisely said in those interviews that they were only doing it to give back to the community.
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Re:Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews... by kareemm on Sunday February 21, 2010 @02:11PM (#1141055)
Andrew has interviewed me twice for Mixergy. I don't begrudge him for making money off of his full-time job - I get promo for my projects through his platform.
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Re:Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews... by ruby35 on Sunday February 21, 2010 @12:06PM (#1140799)
I'm sorry, but that's a douchebag move if you don't warn Andrew ahead of time.
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Re:Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews... by adrianwaj on Sunday February 21, 2010 @02:07PM (#1141047)
Warn Andrew ahead of time? You've got be joking. Why doesn't Andrew pay a fee to those he's interviewed already now, in this bait and switch interwebz journalism
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Re:Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews... by bob345 on Sunday February 21, 2010 @03:27PM (#1141183)
You're relying your argument on an assumption. Fail.
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Re:Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews... by rasikjain on Sunday February 21, 2010 @01:00PM (#1140914)
Information should always be free to the community and Mixergy should concentrate on monetization with different ways rather than subscription model....
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Re:Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews... by swombat on Sunday February 21, 2010 @02:29PM (#1141085)
Information should always be free to the community

Bullshit. Information is power.

Mixergy should concentrate on monetization with different ways rather than subscription model

Agreed.

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Re:Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews... by bob345 on Sunday February 21, 2010 @03:24PM (#1141182)
"Information should always be free"

Wrong.

The provider of that information should be able to charge what he wants. It's capitalism.

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Re:Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews... by chrischen on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @01:15PM (#1145964)
Actually the market will force him to do something. that's capitalism. You don't just charge whatever you want without regards to market forces.
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Re:Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews... by wakeupthedawn on Sunday February 21, 2010 @01:17PM (#1140952)
LOL^^^^^ This is another account created one hour ago.
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Re:Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews... by bob345 on Sunday February 21, 2010 @03:20PM (#1141174)
...here's an account created minutes ago, and pg can check this IP to see if it's from Argentina.

The HN lynch mob is pathetic.

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Re:Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews... by thehodge on Sunday February 21, 2010 @05:39PM (#1141371)
Its not hard to spoof an i.p. address, heck posting from one of the easy to use myspace proxy websites will give you the effect of a USA i.p. address.
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