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Re:How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company by alain94040 on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @10:02PM (#2605583)
You know what I mean. Even in EDA, having a reference "user", as long as they are using the product, is a major achievement that will be leveraged [to death] with future [paying] customers.
Re:How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company by skmurphy on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @01:24AM (#2606088)
I am not trying to be pedantic. In my experience there is an enormous difference between having a user and having a paying customer. They may be a user before they are a paying customer, but there is a very significant difference.
Re:How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company by ecaradec on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @02:58AM (#2606297)
But you don't have to tell that you first customer doesn't pay you ;).