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Re:The bar for success in our industry is too low by webwright on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @05:34PM (#801160)
I dunno. This is deserves a celebration. It's a fucking triumph! These guys made a product that no one really competes with and are making real money largely giving it away. It seems pretty clear that it scales pretty beautifully and that they could turn the screws a bit, experiment a bit, and make a huge pile of profit off of this.

I'm all for thumbing your nose at some/most free apps, but EverNote has really proven something and deserves praise. There seems to be real (reinvested profit) buried under the growth/r&d spending.

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Re:The bar for success in our industry is too low by ekiru on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @08:21PM (#801458)
The whole point of the article is that Evernote is not making money and aren't even expected to break even until 2011.
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Re:The bar for success in our industry is too low by boucher on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @09:00PM (#801514)
They are very clearly making money. They are just spending more than they make. Revenue is still an important metric. Many companies which are supposedly successes still have $0 in revenues. Saying such a company is already successful is much worse than saying the same about a company with significant revenues but still no net profit.
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Re:The bar for success in our industry is too low by webwright on Thursday September 03, 2009 @03:04PM (#803219)
Yeah. Same with Amazon when they were a few years in. Were they worth writing about back then? I think so.
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Re:The bar for success in our industry is too low by ekiru on Thursday September 03, 2009 @04:16PM (#803427)
Yes, but is Evernote currently worth using as an example of how to make a profit? I don't think so.
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