Simple question: Simple answer. Yes.
It depends on a number of factors but I'd boil it down to two key things to start: 1) What is your real cost to provide a free plan or trial? 2) Who exactly is your customer and what are they used to paying and who and how do they pay today? When you say "online workforce marketplace" it sounds ...
Those updates are great because it made white hat SEO guys focus on what we know it always worked in the long term and elimiated the competition that tried to get in front with fast black hat tactiques.
I don't use a lot of tools for my startup, just this ones: -intercom.io - really great to schedule automated messages and it can be synced with your database and have custom fields. Very easy to setup -Google Apps (analytics,gmail, webmaster tools) -Monitor Backlinks (my own startup) to build lin...
Several thoughts... First, search engines are changing their valuation of sites that have a significant amount of likes/tweets/plus-ones/etc. From the perspective of the search engine, these validations are actually far more relevant/valuable than "backlinks" (which is an older way of increasing...
Are we speaking only about SEO here or about all the ways to generate traffic to a website? If we're speaking about SEO the best way is to start blogging and by this I mean as much as possible. Every single blog post is a new content, a new page that can be found by the search engines (and your ...
I've used AngelList. To be honest, I've had better luck with local connections outside of the industry. My experience with it (which is biased) is that depending on the industry you want to invest in, AngelList only serves those who already have investors or angels. In my humble opinion, to get i...
Congratulations on the credentials you've earned to date and I admire your ambition. I started my first company at 13 and was hired by Apple (in part because I had started my company first) by 15. Especially in today's economy, I would suggest that you seriously explore learning to program. ...
Growing up from 1+subs to a team like you're saying is a classic problem in consulting. The financial math is not in your favor until you get a consistent team. Here's an article of mine detailing the issues and also detailing solutions: http://blog.asmartbear.com/consulting-company-accounting....
Watch all of Paul Kenny's videos from the Business of Software conference. Perfection, and easy to understand. Then remember this last trick: Honesty wins.