I gave this talk at last week's WordCamp Cape Town
[http://2011.capetown.wordcamp.org/] and thought that I'd post some of the
details here (a video of my talk should be up soon).
As an introduction to my talk... I've been making money with WordPress for many
years now
I had an interesting conversation with a friend over the weekend, about reading
books. My friend - who is not as connected as I am - said he was still
purchasing & reading loads of physical books, whereas I had to admit that it has
been years since I last purchased
Great article from Mr Spencer Fry and one with which I greatly agree.
The only proviso being that I’ve helped build a very successful business
(WooThemes) on another platform (WordPress being the primary one), so I won’t be
hypocritical.
I’m less concerned about the risks involved with
I felt so inspired by this post and specifically loved this bit:
> These business models will leverage thepassion
[http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2009/11/pursuing-passion.html]
of individuals, createnetworks
[http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2010/02/shifting-identities-from-consumer-to-networked-creator.html]
and build communities
[http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2010/
If you have ever wanted an authoritative article on bootstrapping your startup,
then this one is just that. @spencerfry [http://twitter.com/spencerfry] has
immense experience in the field of bootstrapping startups and in this article he
shares all of those valuable bits. So: read this!
I think the reason
To be honest, at the best of times freemium feels like an overly idealistic
business model, which relies heavily on building a big enough audience. In this
case study, all of the founders that commented noted that freemium is a numbers
game, since only a very small percentage of those
Most entrepreneurs seem to be keen to develop & establish their brands as
umbrella’s for a whole business empire, in that they grow the company both
horizontally & vertically. Whilst this may not be on every startup’s radar, the
more established a business becomes, the bigger the need seems to