How Dropbox Got Its First 10 Million Users

Re:How Dropbox Got Its First 10 Million Users by alttag on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @01:27PM (#3183102)

Yes, they have lots of users (and the article doesn't mention how they used network incentives to increase the user count), but more interesting would be the rate of conversion to paying customer, typical time to conversion (also, segments: do some buy right away or use for years, then buy), etc.

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Re:How Dropbox Got Its First 10 Million Users by simondlr on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @01:43PM (#3183196)

I would like to see time to conversion. I have a hunch the majority of the users haven't capped out their dropboxes yet. When that starts to happen, it will be interesting what the conversion rate will be.

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Re:How Dropbox Got Its First 10 Million Users by rarrrrrr on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @05:36PM (#3184252)

As a data point: At SpiderOak, 50% of customers purchase paid storage within the first 4 days of opening an account. Of course there's still a long tail of events after.

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