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I think that people are hating on Color because of a combination of two different things: 1. They've got a buggy 1.0 application with no users. 2. They've got
by ekidd 16y ago
I think that people are hating on Color because of a combination of two different things:
1. They've got a buggy 1.0 application with no users.
2. They've got $41 million dollars in VC money.
Either by itself might be understandable, but the combination is worrisome.
For example, it's one thing if some angel investors invest $500K or $2 million in strong team with a half-baked idea. That's enough money to allow some hiring and a few experiments.
Or coming from the other side, I can understand why investors might put $41 million into a promising social network with dedicated users and strong growth.
But $41 million for a company which hasn't demonstrated product-market fit, and is still working the bugs out of their 1.0 release? I'm not sure what Sequoia thinks they see in this deal.
- spolsky 16y agoAll I'm saying is that the "buggy" adjective is the last reason to hate them. $41m, lack of product-market fit, no users, these are all genuine reasons to be hating. But anyone with ten minutes of programming experience knows that bugs are just bugs. You fix them and they're fixed. Lack of product/market fit, however, can never be fixed. Focus on that.