Comments on: Can Free Live Forever? http://www.prateekdayal.net/2008/10/22/can-free-live-forever/ Ruby on Rails + Web 2.0 + Life :) Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:06:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: lvs http://www.prateekdayal.net/2008/10/22/can-free-live-forever/comment-page-1/#comment-6305 lvs Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:01:14 +0000 http://www.prateekdayal.net/blog/?p=108#comment-6305 I would say no matter how useful their content is, if their subscription is based on online users, they will not survive on a paid model. You are right we are all spoilt! If they are not venture capital backed, well this is the time to get some backing. Because I would say they will go out of business on a paid model very soon. At least some bare bones free model needs to be out there. They have to think of other ways to get the money, some innovative advertising, tie ups. But thats my view. As you say for startups to survive we need to support them too. I would say no matter how useful their content is, if their subscription is based on online users, they will not survive on a paid model. You are right we are all spoilt!

If they are not venture capital backed, well this is the time to get some backing. Because I would say they will go out of business on a paid model very soon.

At least some bare bones free model needs to be out there. They have to think of other ways to get the money, some innovative advertising, tie ups. But thats my view. As you say for startups to survive we need to support them too.

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