yoseph
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Comment · 12 years ago
I'm pretty sure I'm one of the "growth hacking" guys in this story.
Personally, I don't see this as an accurate description of what happened. We were seriously considering sendwithus and were looking at how to integrate their product. We talked a few times (maybe 4 times?) and definitely saw the value of what they were doing and where they were going.
We also were very transparent about the features we needed to move forward and they gave us a fair time range for when they could deliver them. Originally, we were comfortable with the timeline. Of course, you sometimes want things to be built yesterday and we happened to come across Vero which had all the requested functionality already built. That's what caused the switch.
Hope that clarifies things and honestly, I'm disappointed by the above comment. Anyone who's built something from nothing knows the hustle required and sometimes you have to risk annoying people to prove there's value in what you're doing. There are many examples of this. Here's the most recent one I've seen: HotelTonight (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EER3rdWXbNk).
Comment · 13 years ago
Everything's easier said than done...
I can. Here are three: Salesforce. Amazon. Google.
Comment · 13 years ago
Their ambition isn't limited to the song meanings / annotations market. They wouldn't have raised $15m on that. Look at how they're branching out. PoetryGenius, NewsGenius, etc. They want to annotate the world's information.
That's a huge market and with RG's excellent execution so far (everyone has missteps - remember that), it warrants a $15m bet.
Comment · 13 years ago
Wow, that is an awesome landing page. Kudos.
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