Mike here from blip.tv. It’s true that we’ll need cash to scale up, but not as much as you may think. As the article points out, hard drives and bandwidth are cheap these days.

That’s why we’re not just offering free hosting. We’re looking at videoblogging as a complex process that needs to be made simpler and easier. You shouldn’t have to go through a dozen steps to start a videoblog, and we’re focused on making the process as easy as possible. Using blip you really only need one step to start a simple vlog — just go to blip and sign up. If you want more control over your blog, you can get a Blogger account and integrate it with blip in just a few seconds.

I hate to say it, but hosting is almost secondary to our primary focus — which is building tools that make the process of videoblogging easy.