Heimanson: Datamove charges customers for custom features while retaining IP
Rick Heimanson · Episode 669 | 10 Years to Overnight Success: Bootstrapping to a M... · Jul 11, 2023 · at 33:39
Rick Heimanson, founder of Datamove, discusses how he handles customer feature requests with Rob Walling on Startups for the Rest of Us.
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“So this one around, and the way I do it now, Rob, is if someone really wants something really important, they think it's huge, I will give them a proposal for us to build it, they'll pay for it, but I will make it available for every other user of ours.”
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