Has anyone seen creative SaaS business models opposed to straight monthly charges?I am thinking along the lines of where the price starts at a 1 dollar a month, and when someone signs up it goes up 25 cents and so on.Anything else along those lines you have seen?
Do any startup incubators or similar things to Y Combinator exist in Chicago?
I figure a lot of us could benefit from this, but lets start naming web apps that illustrate good web design. I'll start off to name a few...1) basecamphq.com - considering all SaaS's derive from here 2) onehub.com 3) lighthouseapp.com
I also didn't really think it was worth letting her attempt to do it and then fighting them at the end of I wasn't happy.
I was hoping to get your thoughts on a situation...So recently I hired a well known, but small, web design firm. I specifically hired this firm because all of their websites carry a very unique style. They were more expensive then most freelancers I had worked with in the past, but it was worth it to me to obtain this style.I figured that the head designer and founder, wouldn't take the...
So, I am sure we all have this problem. But is there a way to find reliable programmers in the US/Canada? I know services like elance exist, but they seem to be overrun by overseas programmers. That is fine, but not what I am looking for. Any ideas?
There are certainly some serious apprehensions I have about the business. It worries me that there is no one out there searching for this and that it would boil down to a 100% cold-calling sales gig. Also, most, if not all, of these golf courses have the worst looking websites, which leads me to believe that there is no one looking after any web presence or anything web-related.
This actually touches on a bigger issue which I'd love to discuss. What you have here is a very profitable niche, one in which a few early 90s web companies took over, gobbled up all the market share, and then stopped innovating. I see this in a lot of ignored niches.
http://www.recipenom.comI just made a new site called Recipenom.com that is like a mix between Instapaper/delicious and Hype Machine, but for recipes. If you find a recipe you want to save, simply click the button easily accessible within your toolbar. There's also sharing/tagging of recipes, easy printing, and we built in a universal feed that also pulls from popular food blogs.I'd really...
Has anyone had any experience selling a web site via escrow? Is it a safe or recommended way for the seller?
Chicago being the 3rd largest city in the country and filled with plenty of wealthy angel investors and VC's, seems to really miss the mark in the internet field. We see much smaller markets from Boston, Austin, Boulder, San Francisco to merge as a growing hub for web entrepreneurs. Why does Chicago seem ages behind the rest of the country? There are very few if no angel funds, start up...
My friend I came up with the idea of a dating site based on what your fashion sense is - t-shirts/casual personalities being more compatible.