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"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

"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.