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freddie_mercury on June 28, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

What's unwise about $100 million in revenue?

syn0byte on June 28, 2019 [–]

The $1Bn+ valuation.

It's not that a note app can't be successful, but clearly not with SV style funding and expectations.

freddie_mercury on July 1, 2019 | [–]

Except the parent didn't write "don't do SV style funding for a notetaking app". The parent said "building a business on a notetaking app is unwise" with no other caveats.

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