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Re: Ebay Acquires Svpply

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Post by rwhitman »

whalesalad wrote: post #5

Zach Klein is killing it. Co-founder of Vimeo, founder of Svpply. He's been involved in lots of other cool gigs too. It's been really fun to follow along with his progress over the last few years. Tons of respect for the guy, and glad that he has done most of this outside of SV. Congrats on the sale!

I would say that an acquihire of a struggling product that he was only marginally involved in, isn't the time to congratulate the guy. He was primarily an investor and probably just lost some money

Re: Ebay Acquires Svpply

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Post by ericd »

jamiequint wrote: post #14
54mf wrote: post #2

Sigh. They even had a business model, too. Disappointed. Looking forward to Svpply either (a) being slowly destroyed, or (b) shut down all together so the team can work exclusively on eBay's awful site. Congrats in advance to the team on cashing out 12/24/48 months from now.

Svpply's numbers have been pretty stuck for a while ( http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120/Screenshots/tcr0.png ) and they're competing in a market with tons of competitors that were doing better than them, specifically Wanelo ( http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120/Screenshots/-~1c.png ) but also Fancy ( https://thefancy.com ). You have to become huge to create a VC-backable business on the back of other affiliate programs and it didn…

We should really stop using Compete as evidence for anything. Not only are they frequently an order of magnitude off, they're oftentimes not even directionally correct in their movements.

Other than that, your points are valid, especially wrt affiliate based companies.

Re: Ebay Acquires Svpply

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Post by photorized »

joelrunyon wrote: post #16
54mf wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, absolutely. Between Vimeo, Svpply, DIY, and his Cabin Porn blog (SFW, you should check it out if you haven't yet), he seems to have impeccable taste for things the internet could use. Huge props to him for everything.

http://freecabinporn.com/

awesome site.

Re: Ebay Acquires Svpply

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Post by Kelliot »

joelrunyon wrote: post #16
54mf wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, absolutely. Between Vimeo, Svpply, DIY, and his Cabin Porn blog (SFW, you should check it out if you haven't yet), he seems to have impeccable taste for things the internet could use. Huge props to him for everything.

http://freecabinporn.com/

SFW?

Re: Ebay Acquires Svpply

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Post by trips2 »

Vimeo is a pain though. It does not work well without Flash, as does YouTube. player.vimeo.com/config/12345678.smil will give some mp4 url's but they require the request to come from their swf or some other annoying impediment. Not everyone always has a super fast connection or uses Flash all the time. With YouTube that's not a problem. With Vimeo, it is.

Re: Ebay Acquires Svpply

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Post by thirdsun »

This is disappointing from a user perspective. I always loved to use svpply to find well done and niche products. I'm not sure what eBay is going to do with it, but I expect it to go downhill from here.

Re: Ebay Acquires Svpply

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Post by wiradikusuma »

joelrunyon wrote: post #16
54mf wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, absolutely. Between Vimeo, Svpply, DIY, and his Cabin Porn blog (SFW, you should check it out if you haven't yet), he seems to have impeccable taste for things the internet could use. Huge props to him for everything.

http://freecabinporn.com/

completely out of topic, but i'm really curious: the moment i saw those isolated cabins, all sorts of things that can go wrong popped up in my mind, especially safety issues. like, you can have armed fugitive stopped by and do nasty things to you. or, do they have like hidden sensor/perimeter or stuff?
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