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Salaries (for engineers) is and should be the main cost of a startup.

The have a bad attitude: "For the next 15 minutes, we will try to explain why you and/or your ideas suck" (http://goo.gl/NNKtIK)

And want to invest with a $1M valuation (http://goo.gl/2686da).

To my mind, not so interesting. Sounds more like shark loans

3) in a non-startup (services company, freelancing, corporate, etc)

2) for a startup (you are employee #1 or #199 of a startup)

1) on a startup (you are in the founding team of a startup)

The most interesting point is that there is a concentration in the 30-70k range and then you have a significant number in the >200k.

Isn't this a great infographic?

I can totally understand as I have experienced the exact same thing. But... I do believe that this is the way to go, because, imo the difficult part for a working professional is to get into a schedule.

In my view, MOOCs are really revolutionizing education because they provide options for smart willing people that are locationally or financially disadvantaged to learn from top tier professors/institutions.

Now the designer of the page validates my point with his post about pricing strategy http://thinktraffic.net/most-common-pricing-mistake

All the page design is about setting the expectations up (200$) and then showing the, only 29$, book as a no-brainer buy.

Sander, lorax thank you for your input.

We discussed the concept internally and decided that we won't ask for any user demographics on the registration form.

Later, when we have a clear way to use user demographic, we will create a value proposition for them to enter it. Eg tell us your profession so that it will be visible to other users and get new leads.

Sander, thank you for your prompt reply.

You are right. But a fine point is that the sites you mentioned are, as you say, "social". What about a stand-alone app?

Pablasso, we will never know for sure.

But strategically wise, I can see a threat from Wunderkit to Basecamp. Wunderkit is trying to bring a BP-style project management product (evolved) to a mass-market. It is not going for the geeks, designers, etc that BP has mostly as its clients. It is going for the mass and thus a recent article has mentioned them as "a Facebook for the workplace". After all, their first product (Wunderlist) has 1.5M users and reached 1M users in 275 days(!). Finally, a previous comment in HN frames 37s move in a nice way:

"This is very Apple. If somebody is going to cannibalize our market anyway, we prefer to do it ourselves." (by armandososa) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3506546

When I am reading about BP Next or viewing this video, I get the feeling that this "move" has something to do with Wunderkit launch http://www.wunderkit.com/. Be it the timing, be it the coloured backgrounds on the video, etc. I don't know exactly why, but I get the feeling.

And I am saying this, despite being a huge fan of 37s, their products and their philosophy (as demonstrated in their books and SvN). I have read everything they have written and I am a paying customer.

I also feel, however, that BP Next would be one more great product from 37s.

During my search, I have found that Stripe is the best solution out there. There is even a post with cost comparison (http://expletiveinserted.com/2011/10/02/stripes-new-online-p...) that demosntrates that is also cheap.

Unfortunately, Stripe is for USA-only.

An alternative is, as some people already mentioned, http://saasy.com/, which is a FastSpring service.