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Dropbox, Spotify, Gmail, Skype: Are We In A Subscription Bubble?

techcrunch.com on 03/10/2013

Excerpt: Editor’s note: Ezra Galston is a VC at I2A Fund, a young entrepreneur at Foundation Capital, a Kauffman Fellows Finalist and a second-year MBA student at Chicago Booth. He focuses on early-stage technology investments. Follow him on Twitter @EzraMoGee. It seems like nearly every tech business has sought to employ a subscription model for its services. While that makes sense from a business perspective, I wanted to investigate any effects of subscription fatigue on consumer commerce – questions such as whether a service like Dropbox might be on the chopping block if consumers’ wallets are stretched. Or whether Gmail plugins like Boomerang could sustain a subscription model.... read the full post.
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