There is no free lunch – Babbel goes Premium
What is your association with the magic numbers 2.0? Social Media, networking, chatting and, of course, no cost or at least freemium. Well, not anymore. At least not in education. With the launch of...
View ArticleBabbel declares Premium Model a Success – Busuu launches new Group Feature
We got interesting news from the two European competitors of Livemocha. Markus Witte, Co-Founder of Babbel wrote a blog post about the success of Babbel 2.0. If you can remember, Babbel changed from...
View ArticleNo Free Lunch Part 2: No more Free Listings on TeachStreet
After nearly two years in business TeachStreet is making a drastic change to its platform. In an email from Dave Schappell, Founder and CEO of TeachStreet to all teachers on the platform he announced...
View ArticleNo Free Lunch Part X – English Attack! will launch with Subscription Model
News from Parisian start up English Attack!. Apparently the beta test went quite well for the entertainment based English language learning platform and the team received some good feedback on the...
View ArticleReview:ed 2010 – April to June
This is the second part of my review of 2010. April was the month when freemium got a hard kick in the behind, three companies proved this system is not the holy grail that fits in no matter what...
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