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Most people seem confused by Autodesk part of this headline. Am I the only one confused by the $60M? Look at the traffic decline: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo
by cmcewen 14y ago
Most people seem confused by Autodesk part of this headline. Am I the only one confused by the $60M?
Look at the traffic decline: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/socialcam.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/socialcam.com
My understanding is that a bunch of people clicked on Socialcam when it showed up in their news feed and didn't know they were signing up - now it seems the numbers are starting to reflect that not many people actually use it.
Maybe I'm just crazy.
- pg 14y agoI don't know about their traffic but I would not be surprised if it had decined. Growth comes from paying attention to growth. But getting acquired, like raising money, is an immense drain on attention. In both cases it can put a startup in a dangerous pinch.
- cmcewen 14y agoI can't speak from experience about getting acquired, but I definitely see how it could be an attention drain. I was more speaking to the stickiness of the product. Socialcam grew really quickly, but shrunk just as fast because people didn't stay around. That to me seems very hard to monetize.
- RealGeek 14y agoThanks to the attention drain, we get a few weeks of relief from their spam.
- mingyeow 14y agoPG - are you serious? you seriously think that their decline in growth comes from anything other than facebook users seeing through their scam and facebook itself shutting off their spam channels? You think that there is any chance in hell that they can maintain that kind of growth. Come on
- janj 14y agoWould it be inappropriate for pg to give an honest assessment of Socialcam considering his involvement with the company and his history with the founders? I would love to read a sincere evaluation from pg's perspective on Socialcam's method of growth and the real value to it's acquirer.