Re: Funding software development?

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 00:50:51 -0700 (PDT), Francois Gouget
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Deven T. Corzine wrote:
>[...]
>> > > (Did they specify a particular number later?)
>> > The number was 20000.
>>
>> That's good to know.
>
>As Ove said, they specified the required number of subscriptions
>immediately.
>
>There is just one thing that I would like to mention because I am not
>sure it is clear for everyone (it wasn't for me initially).
>
>As far as I understand, their goal is 20000 simultaneous subscriptions.
>So if 10000 users subscribe for the month of january and drop their
>subscription at the end of the month, and they are replaced by 15000
>other users in february, the goal of 20000 subscription has not been
>reached. That's because there was never more than 15000 subscribers at
>any given time.
>
>This model makes sense. Their goal (again, AFAIU) is to be able to make
>enough revenue from the subscriptions to run the company. The 20000
>figure is thus quite reasonable.
>
>But it means it's not cumulative. To reach the goal TransGaming needs
>17000 new subscribers (according to the figures mentionned in this
>mailing list) and they need the first 3000 to remain subscribed. What is
>unclear also is how long they must have >20000 subscribers. When one
>subscribes the 25th of the month, does it only cover the last week of
>that month? Or does it cover 30 days starting that day? Then they could
>exceed 20000 for a single day. Is this sufficient? Or does it only count
>if they stay above 20000 for a whole month? Which may make more sense. A
>calendar month? More? It probably does not matter anyway.  If they reach
>20000 it means a lot of growth from current level, it is unlikely that
>it would stop at just 20000.
>
>In any case I wish them luck in reaching that target.

Since the goal is no longer on the web site, will new subscriptions
count? The committment is no longer clear.

john alvord