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One thing I wish the article pointed out was that Stack Exchange isn't profitable whereas Experts Exchange is (this was true earlier this year; SE may be profit
by nonchalance 13y ago
One thing I wish the article pointed out was that Stack Exchange isn't profitable whereas Experts Exchange is (this was true earlier this year; SE may be profitable now). In general, it's difficult for a bootstrapped company selling a service to compete with VC-funded free services, and choices have to be made.
- andy_adams 13y agoThanks for the really great point - I'll make mention of VC in an edit.
- mehrdada 13y agoNote that Stack Overflow itself was not VC funded for a good amount of time. They only raised VC funding when they wanted to push StackExchange towards other areas outside programming. They certainly were not VC funded from the beginning.