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I do like their simple form and layout, they have indeed got an elegant site. Nice piece of UX engineering without a doubt. There can't (in my v. humble opinio
by hitchhiker999 13y ago
I do like their simple form and layout, they have indeed got an elegant site. Nice piece of UX engineering without a doubt.
There can't (in my v. humble opinion) be any realistic way of recouping 80 million from a Q&A site. They would surely need to be extremely aggressive at the least.
- wpietri 13y agoYeah. Having served some time in the magazine industry, there's a common pattern there: You decide to make something way better than the existing alternatives. Your smart and literary friends tell you it's a great idea, because they want something better too. You find inexperienced investors with the same vision, and present them with early samples that make them say, "Yes! This awesome! Let me invest in your vision." Then you start shipping, and the small fraction of the population that isn't satisfied with mid-market stuff signs up and praises you. You're not profitable, but everybody is so excited that you keep going, possibly for years, getting new investor money and never selling as much as you hope. Basically, it's like making a quirky indie film and thinking it will be a $500m blockbuster because you and your friends love it so. My fear is that Quora's on exactly the same path. That this new chunk of money comes from an outsider, Tiger Global, worries me further.
- jgalt212 13y agoI think Stack Overflow definitely can, but mostly because it has a very high value audience that can be monetized through ad sales and and its job posting biz.