Hi,
I am one of three colleagues who have developed what we believe is a rather neat piece of business software.
We had planned to launch this as shareware (build in a 30 expiry clause etc).
We were fortunate through contacts to spend some free time with an software industry analyst who has adviced against going the shareware route but rather to go straight to retail and large corporates. His believe is no one ever makes real money through shareware and starting that route can actually damage the credibility of your product should your ever decide to try to sell it direct to businesses. We should go get funding, advertise properly and start trying to sell into large companies.
Question: Does anyone know of shareware companies that have been successful, or is it the backwater for neat, clever but finantially unsuccessful software tools!
Any thoughts/advice really welcome
I am one of three colleagues who have developed what we believe is a rather neat piece of business software.
We had planned to launch this as shareware (build in a 30 expiry clause etc).
We were fortunate through contacts to spend some free time with an software industry analyst who has adviced against going the shareware route but rather to go straight to retail and large corporates. His believe is no one ever makes real money through shareware and starting that route can actually damage the credibility of your product should your ever decide to try to sell it direct to businesses. We should go get funding, advertise properly and start trying to sell into large companies.
Question: Does anyone know of shareware companies that have been successful, or is it the backwater for neat, clever but finantially unsuccessful software tools!
Any thoughts/advice really welcome
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