Startups die for many reasons, but I can't help but feel the ones tr.im gives are a little dishonest. There is no way for us to monetize URL shortening --

Startups die for many reasons, but I can't help but feel the ones tr.im gives are a little dishonest. There is no way for us to monetize URL shortening -- users won't pay for it Users won't pay for web search either, and that has monetized very well. We just can't justify further devleopment since Twitter has all but annointed [sic] bit.ly the market winner. Umm, when tr.im got into this business, Twitter had "anointed" tinyurl the "market winner". If it was worth it to compete against tinyurl regardless, why isn't it worth it to compete against bit.ly?