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Re:Introducing Vdio by glomph on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @02:39PM (#5488104)
Can I ask why you used the word pivoting instead of moving? To pivot is to swing around a fixed point. What is the fixed point in this context?
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Re:Introducing Vdio by loumf on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @03:45PM (#5488528)
Pivot is a term of art popularized by Eric Ries and the lean startup movement.

Pivots frequently keep a large part constant, thus the word makes sense.

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Re:Introducing Vdio by glomph on Thursday April 04, 2013 @02:44PM (#5494469)
Frankly I think that it is nonsense and an attempt to sound like you are saying something cleverer than you are. What would be meaningfully different in what he had said if he used the word move?
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Re:Introducing Vdio by loumf on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @02:00PM (#5519844)
He would no longer be referring to Lean Startup. He would no longer be implying that part of the business model was being held constant.
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