Nikola Mirčić, founder of Sitecake, describes fundraising shifts in the blockchain space during an interview with Nathan Latka.
Opinion
Mirčić: Open-Source Software Revenue Models Are Inherently Poor
“There is no revenue in open source model, you know, or the revenue models with open source are really, really poor compared to some other, you know, business models.”
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SVB Required Six Months of Compliance for a 2018 ICO
“If you want to go with a bank, like for example, Silicon Valley bank, you know, you need to go through six months of compliance in order to do an ICO.”
Disclosure
Sitecake Drives Most of Its Revenue From White-Label Agency Licensing
“White label, because, you know now websites are sold to the community, to the vertical, to people that, you know, for example, you know, if you are you know vertical, like lawyers of medical doctors, then you have already people that, that you're providing som…”
Disclosure
Sitecake Charges $1 to $10 Per Site for White-Label Licensing
“Something between, you know dollar and 10 dollars depending. I cannot disclose, you know.”
Insight
Mirčić: 90% of CMS Users Only Need Basic Text and Image Features
“Because in 90% of cases, people use only the basics, you know, image, video, and text, you know.
So they don't need old bells and whistles of WordPress or, you know,
The more advanced CMSs.”
Disclosure
Bootstrapped CMS Sitecake Targeted a $2M ICO in 2018
“You know, for what we have in mind, you know a couple of million will be enough.”