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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by freddie_mercury on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:29AM (#20305303)
What's unwise about $100 million in revenue?
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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by syn0byte on Friday June 28, 2019 @12:08PM (#20305793)
The $1Bn+ valuation.

It's not that a note app can't be successful, but clearly not with SV style funding and expectations.

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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by freddie_mercury on Monday July 01, 2019 @12:10AM (#20322402)
Except the parent didn't write "don't do SV style funding for a notetaking app". The parent said "building a business on a notetaking app is unwise" with no other caveats.
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