knightinblue

I'm doing some research for an article and would like your help: What startups and niches use payments or subscriptions as their primary revenue model?

The immediate one that comes to mind is groupon, but there are plenty of others. Like dating sites for example. What startups, niches or ideas can you think of that follow this revenue model? Please list as many as you can.

P.S. Lets leave out those that sell and ship physical products.

I'm doing some research for an article and would like your help:

What startups and niches use payments or subscriptions as their primary revenue model?

The immediate one that comes to mind is groupon, but there are plenty of others. Like dating sites for example. Even 'service' sites like pandora.com fall under this.

What startups, niches or ideas can you think of that follow this revenue model? Please list as many as you can.

P.S. Lets leave out those that sell and ship physical products.

My team and I are getting to close to launching our startup. We were discussing our traffic strategies today and added email to the list - basically, users can sign up for our daily emails.

Basically, our startup will need to handle large scale email delivery in-house. Only problem is we have no idea where to start on this.

Any help as to where to start reading/looking? Servers, IPs...?

The wired article about the craigslist redesign has got me wondering. We've all come across beautiful photography and design portfolios, but what about news and social media sites? Which ones would you consider to be efficient and aesthetically pleasing at the same time?