STAGEHQ

We LOVED every minute of the experience. We provided a valuable service to universities, large tech confs -hi RubyConf!-, bootcamps, small entrepreneurs, family businesses, rescue teams(!), freelancers... you name it... As for the pricing we modelled it with fairness in mind to help organizers to create sustainable events:1 ticket = 1 fee. We wanted people that were just selflessly helping and building communities to don't have to worry about money so if that was your case the fee was zero, nil. In hindsight, we think our intention was right and noble but this model forced us to play an unsustainable game of scale, a game we were ill-suited to win... The funding model was a much bigger problem. If creating, providing and scaling a ticketing service was not difficult enough in itself, we decided from the very beginning to fund it most difficultly: bootstrapping it. So we will do projects for others: everything from social networks -do you remember those days?- to marketing websites to..