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SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses

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Re: SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses

#2
I hope this is just an alarmist headline. SoundCloud is pretty essential in its space, it's one of the few services that lets you natively get audio on to Twitter, the main place musicians share snapshots of their work and remixes, and a key part of numerous podcasts and ways to embed easily shared audio on the Web. This is one startup I absolutely don't want to see go down the pan.

Re: SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses

#3

I hope this is just an alarmist headline. SoundCloud is pretty essential in its space, it's one of the few services that lets you natively get audio on to Twitter, the main place musicians share snapshots of their work and remixes, and a key part of numerous podcasts and ways to embed easily shared audio on the Web. This is one startup I absolutely don't want to see go down the pan.

have you ever paid a cent to soundcloud?

Re: SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses

#4

I hope this is just an alarmist headline. SoundCloud is pretty essential in its space, it's one of the few services that lets you natively get audio on to Twitter, the main place musicians share snapshots of their work and remixes, and a key part of numerous podcasts and ways to embed easily shared audio on the Web. This is one startup I absolutely don't want to see go down the pan.

The trouble is there is no real alternative. There's Vocaroo, but it serves a different niche than SoundCloud.

Re: SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses

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post #3

I hope this is just an alarmist headline. SoundCloud is pretty essential in its space, it's one of the few services that lets you natively get audio on to Twitter, the main place musicians share snapshots of their work and remixes, and a key part of numerous podcasts and ways to embed easily shared audio on the Web. This is one startup I absolutely don't want to see go down the pan.

have you ever paid a cent to soundcloud?

I don't know about OP but I have been a paying customer for years. No soundcloud would be a huge loss.

Re: SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses

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Article is bs.

they lost 44m in _2014_. Raised 77m last year. They may need to raise more in 2016.

Nothing else. No other facts. No info on their balance sheet, etc. Doesn't even know if they're growing, what their revenue or losses for 2015 were.

And based on that, Fact thinks that's enough to say they "may be forced to close".

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