The audacity of charging from day one.

Re:The audacity of charging from day one. by bpeters on Thursday March 31, 2011 @03:51PM (#2393330)

Good point for startups who have value to offer day one, but some startups do not add value until a certain level of activity is reached or a certain state of stability is reached, take Twitter for example.

However, I believe they have reached a point that it should start to charge. Those who see it as a value have spoken up about wanting and willing to pay.

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Re:The audacity of charging from day one. by g0atbutt on Thursday March 31, 2011 @03:59PM (#2393365)

Good point. However, in this case, the startup needed money and already had a fantastic product that saved small business owners a lot of time. They had customers that wanted to pay for premium access, yet they were content to just keep scrapping by because they were afraid what their community would think if they charged for their product and I found that line of thinking utterly ridiculous.

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Re:The audacity of charging from day one. by blake8086 on Thursday March 31, 2011 @04:27PM (#2393524)

Twitter could have started charging for ads from day one, couldn't they?

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