People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.
If you make the Internet, live on the internet.
Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.
Do what you love and don't focus on money - life's too short.
Simplicity not simplistic.
My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.