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I don't know about their traffic but I would not be surprised if it had decined. Growth comes from paying attention to growth. But getting acquired, like rais
by pg 14y ago
I don't know about their traffic but I would not be surprised if it had decined. Growth comes from paying attention to growth. But getting acquired, like raising money, is an immense drain on attention. In both cases it can put a startup in a dangerous pinch.
- janj 14y agoWould it be inappropriate for pg to give an honest assessment of Socialcam considering his involvement with the company and his history with the founders? I would love to read a sincere evaluation from pg's perspective on Socialcam's method of growth and the real value to it's acquirer.
- cmcewen 14y agoI can't speak from experience about getting acquired, but I definitely see how it could be an attention drain. I was more speaking to the stickiness of the product. Socialcam grew really quickly, but shrunk just as fast because people didn't stay around. That to me seems very hard to monetize.
- RealGeek 14y agoThanks to the attention drain, we get a few weeks of relief from their spam.
- mingyeow 14y agoPG - are you serious? you seriously think that their decline in growth comes from anything other than facebook users seeing through their scam and facebook itself shutting off their spam channels? You think that there is any chance in hell that they can maintain that kind of growth. Come on