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The mix between support income vs. new licenses would vary depending on where you are in your adoption lifecycle. Are you a market leader? Are you facing price-based competition now? Will you be transitioning markets during your projection? Have you…
Doesn't that depend on how you intend to make money, and the release schedule? You should have figured that out when you signed your partnership agreement.
James Avery (@averyj) said:I am not sure where you live but in the US a contractor/consultant has no rights to unemployment. The company can terminate the contract or reduce it to 0 hours and have no liabilities. This is why when I talk to people I…
Seems to me that your fiend needs to talk with the unemployment people or a lawyer.
He may be keeping his benefits, but if he was exempt, then he doesn't work by any hourly standard, and cutting his hours to zero wouldn't mean that he wouldn't get…
Paul Walsh said:Yes consulting can slow down focus but it does not have to. You can build a roadmap of features that you want to include in a product and then basically direct your sales to find customers who want those features and are willing to f…
Charles Neville said:David Locke said:What do you need cash for? Client's have cash, so get clients.
It really depends on what your product is doesn't it? If your product is being sold to a vertical then this works, if it's a mass market product, a…
Giving away software for free has always been effective. What wasn't effective was giving away commodity goods that lacked exit barriers back in the dot bust. Free got a bad name, because it was misapplied.
Free requires exit barriers. Free in that…
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- At 4:25am on December 8, 2008,
Matt Richards said… - Great comments in the discussions. Thanks!
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