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We are always talking about pivoting and fail fast so why get upset when Yahoo! starts practicing what we are preaching.

• hnha 13y ago
  because the perspectives of a user and a founder are often orthogonal in the startup scene.
• mgkimsal 13y ago
  "failing fast" - if they were failing why did yahoo buy them? they weren't failing - they succeeded - why pivot? pivoting and failing fast are ways to quickly deal with finding a working operations model. It worked so well yahoo bought them. Then closed it down. ???
  • bretpiatt 13y ago
    Is 4 million users a financially viable long term business? How much would you pay annually for Astrid? Would you keep using it if they added a bunch of advertisements to the free edition? A single app isn't a company in the long run. The decisions around evolving or shutting down a product / service is more complicated than your comment suggests.
    • antihero 13y ago
      I wonder if people would pay $10 a year. Because then that's potentially $40m a year income.
    • rch 13y ago
      > A single app isn't a company in the long run. This depends heavily on the single app in question.