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"The start-up, which has no revenue to speak of yet" This is the aspect of the site that always made me scratch my head and say "huh?" It is no doubt a well designed site that engages women. Despite being in beta and invite only I know a bunch of women who are really into it. I don't think being engaging is enough though - where do they go from here? How do they actually justify the valuation? Are they going to have…
They're killing it. Glad to have helped found it.
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From the article you posted from by Svpply blog: "It’s going to be very difficult for them to grow beyond puppies and photos of Ryan Gosling." Wow. What a complete disregard for women as a desirable demographic. When companies act like this it's an opportunity for the rest of us. I've been using pinterest the same way I use twitter; as social media for my business (whose target demographic is women 22-35).
as social media for my business I wish I could say "OMG", but HN wouldn't allow me. This is exactly what I was afraid of when I found Pinterest: marketers. This is the start of a decline.
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as social media for my business I wish I could say "OMG", but HN wouldn't allow me. This is exactly what I was afraid of when I found Pinterest: marketers. This is the start of a decline.
Why so? The Twitter deluge of SM marketing? (I'm trying to figure out your concern).
I have not seen my wife so engaged with a site or mobile app since Facebook and possibly Angry Birds. That's when I knew Pinterest was going to be huge. Good for them on raising this round. I think the path to monetization will be a no-brainer as well. Contrast that with the folks as Svpply (I heard hopes for them for early on) who sit around saying "They’ve (pinterest) locked themselves into a niche community of 22-…
I think Ravelry is an impressive (and, oddly, rarely spoken of) bootstrapping success story.
"The start-up, which has no revenue to speak of yet" This is the aspect of the site that always made me scratch my head and say "huh?" It is no doubt a well designed site that engages women. Despite being in beta and invite only I know a bunch of women who are really into it. I don't think being engaging is enough though - where do they go from here? How do they actually justify the valuation? Are they going to have…
I'll take a wild guess, predicated on the fact that twitter is another social platform that's difficult to monetize: sponsored pinboards. My company would pay to have "sponsored pinboards" all day long if the net ROI was positive. But that's a huge "if".
When will it stop?