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living off free
Even free services have some costs. What lessons did I learn from taking Skype to 400 mio USD in turnover, yet maintaining 'The whole world can talk for free"
Skype is seen as free. How does it make money ? Well, it does. 400 mio USD of it last year. Some things were done well, some badly and some opportunities were missed.
I (Michael Jackson, former VP Paid Services & Ops at Skype) can go through a few of the stories and experiences, and lessons from other companies I now manage outside of Skype
If anyone wants to listen. Vote here or leave it.
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Living off Free - Blyk and other examples?
Michael,
excellent that you'll be at Reboot! Suggestion: How about we make the session broader with some other examples beyond Skype. I could share some of the recent experience of the Blyk business model in practice. Making it more of a conversation session. How about it? (my only constraint would be that we do this sometime on Thursday)
Marko Ahtisaari
For some background you can check:
All About Blyk on Mobuzz.tv:
ahtisaari.typepad.com/moia/2007/12/all-about-blyk.html
Designing Blyk - The First Ad-Funded Mobile Operator:
www.mobiadnews.com/?p=1175
Blyk - an "open code" brand:
shift6.net/2007/11/14/blyk-an-open-code-brand/
Interesting!
Hey Michael, your experience sounds interesting and I'd like to hear more.