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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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