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> I'd be willing to speculate that there are many MANY more examples where it did not work and the company either went under or had to perform a complete reversal like this one.

So the freemium model is like any other small business?



"There might be a few startups that work, but I'd be willing to speculate that there are many more examples where they did not work and the company either went under or had to perform a complete reversal."

Not perfect correspondence, but pretty close. :)




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