Her expertise is in personal finance and investing, and real estate. Freemium is a business model that provides basic features of a product or service for free while charging a premium for ...

Plenty of startups out there want to do go for a "freemium" business model, but there's a lot of confusion as to what "freemium" actually means. And more importantly, whether and how it works.

The business model you choose strongly influences the entire funnel, enabling or preventing you from engaging certain types of users. This article will examine whether the freemium model is right ...

If the freemium model interests you, determine the marginal costs for your business, and calculate the conversion rate and price points your business will need to be profitable. 2. Product strength ...

For some, freemium is a costly trap, a business model that sacrifices revenues and forces a startup to support freeloaders who will never become paying customers. For others, freemium is the ...

For years, Spotify has been a vocal supporter of one of Silicon Valley’s most successful business models: Freemium. Last week, as reported by NPR, Spotify agreed to withhold certain albums from ...

He submitted this story to VentureBeat.) The word “freemium” may be less than four years old, but the business model it describes – offering basic service access for free and then charging ...

Why? X Drive was built on the freemium business model and was committed to supporting several million free users. The company simply couldn’t monetize their free users or convert them to the ...

In our first article in this series, Selling software: Where have all the business models gone?, we looked at the problem faced by traditional PC indpendent software developers and explored why ...

Over the last few years "freemium" has become perhaps the most popular business model for digital products. The service is given away, perhaps with advertising support, and customers are acquired ...