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(By the way, you're replying to one - pclark is one of the founders of Readness/Broadersheet). News is just a tremendously hard market. My suspicion, and I hav
by adw 16y ago
(By the way, you're replying to one - pclark is one of the founders of Readness/Broadersheet).
News is just a tremendously hard market. My suspicion, and I have scar tissue to back this up, is that it's a trap. It's one of those things everyone thinks should be sexy, but the numbers don't work.
- pclark 16y agoadw is totally right about news/content. Bad Market, glad to be out.
- atomical 16y agoWhat are the reasons that it's a bad market?
- pclark 16y agoConsumers don't feel many pain points that are harsh enough to change habits and loyalty from current market leaders. Hard to monetize in scalable manner. News (and even content) is percieved as small by investors. Numerous - dozens - of failed startups, that have tried hundreds of propositions in the past decade - isn't clear what has changed to make those propositions work today. Using someone elses content is of questionable legal grounds (EG: when you are winning, they'll knock) Current social products like Facebook or Twitter or even Reddit do "good enough" job for vast majority.