Somehow Balanced had slipped through my radar, so I appreciate you bringing it to my attention as well. As a Stripe user, I love to see companies trying to bring sanity to the payment processing and PayPal world.

Now if they would have only named them something easier to search. Stripe and Balanced, while fine names, make them very difficult to search. “Stripe AND credit cards” obviously brings back results for the ubiquitous magnetic strip.

@Joshua, Ok thanks! I removed those videos

In case you did miss it and for the benefit of other readers of this comment, here’s the @YouTube link to the page that has a plethora of clips (any clips dated prior to June 2012 are from a different @launchconf event):

http://www.youtube.com/user/LaunchConf

There is also a longer, though more narrowly focused preview of the event on @TWiStartups #263 that featured interviews with a few of the entrepreneurs in the children’s education realm who were going to be presenting at the event:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VywknrGmjHs

A tongue-in-cheek aside, you might have greater success harnessing the attention of high school aged students (though I acknowledge this isn’t your initial intended demographic) if you referred to the “study of advanced mathematics” instead as….”a hands on study of gorgeous figures”. 🙂

Hey Justin….given that you are a proponent of and case study for what @RobWalling calls “micropreneurialism” I’m curious about your micropreneurial status viz a viz your relationship with Company52. Setting aside your current lack of time to do such a thing, in the future would you still be “allowed” (per any contractual arrangement you have with Company52) to develop another of your own “lifestyle” / micropreneurial applications (i.e. another Pluggio) or does all your future work require their involvement? Just curious.

CHEERS!

David

The leap of becoming a paying user from a free one is huge, so making the initial lure as sweet of a deal as possible helps more of them do that. Creating different plans that allow, say, 15 accounts and 50 accounts would confuse and/or scare the free users who would potentially convert. $10 for unlocking the number limit is just a simpler product to sell.

On the other hand, for companies that has a marketing team devoted to online profile managing, “number of twitter account” is not the biggest challenge in the team’s daily work (for they can simply add more people to the team), therefore won’t serve as much value as you might have imagined. For these users, services that enhance team cooperation (task delegation, statistics, content approval, etc.) are more valuable, therefore more fit to be in the more expensive plans. This kind of users will pay for these other services anyways, why not sweeten the $10 deal a little more for the more critical conversion?

“Infinity” might sound like a big number, but my guess is that the significant majority of the paying users don’t need to manage that many twitter accounts. I bet very small percentage of HootSuite’s users are managing more than 100+ profiles (counting the same profile on different platforms), and those who do probably are paying more than $10. So, really, the unlimited amount is just a perk that keeps most of the paying customers happy.