How Google killed my startup

although it might be heart sinking i don't think google really killed it in this case. The company gave up at the threat of competing with google. Killing something is more like what twitter did to meerkat to push periscope. My personal opinion only.

Re: How Google killed my startup

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Post by Mithaldu » Tue, Aug 18, 2015, 1:59 PM UTC

Their description of the business model is to be gamefaqs.com, only with videos instead of text. As an avid gamer, that sounds:

- very niche, their intended content would only be a small fraction of what yt gaming will offer (it focuses on live streams)

- very unattractive, since learning how to play the game by exploring it is the fun of it

- very unmonetizable, given that people can get the very same content, for free, in a format that's much easier to digest

I don't think they needed to invoke google to throw in the gauntlet.

Re: How Google killed my startup

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Post by hobs » Tue, Aug 18, 2015, 1:59 PM UTC

hartator wrote: post #4

tldr; People came up with an idea of some kind of paying twitch and decided to give up when Google might release something similar for free.

I think calling out that they specifically wanted to teach people to play video games matters in the tldr.

Honestly, this sounds just like a feature that this company may have made interesting with G will just kill off in a few years.

Reminds me of MS product announcements in the bad old days.

Re: How Google killed my startup

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Post by TerryADavis » Tue, Aug 18, 2015, 2:00 PM UTC

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Re: How Google killed my startup

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Post by hlfw0rd » Tue, Aug 18, 2015, 2:05 PM UTC

Seems as though the author got scared and gave up.

Re: How Google killed my startup

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Post by kifler » Tue, Aug 18, 2015, 2:06 PM UTC

Their product wasn't really revolutionary - it didn't present anything new. By their own accounts, there was nothing stopping Lynda.com from offering the exact same service (along with a multitude of other online course/video services).

Google didn't kill their startup, their own naivity did.