Kevin Rose admits DIGGs mistakes

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Digg founder: We let Digg stagnate | VentureBeat

Interesting article, the part i wanted to bring up here is this.

Digg, the pioneering social-news site which lets users vote on top headlines, began to lose momentum during the recession because it pulled engineers from designing new site features to work on improving revenue, founder Kevin Rose said today. Rose said that looking back, he would have hired additional engineers to handle implementing new advertising features instead, in comments made at an interview at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco..

So essentially in rough times, they got shakey and pulled back, rather than charging forward. In the end this allows Reddit to prosper from the "big giant"


This is a great example of not letting the big guys scare you from starting what you want to do, and it also shows exactly how the phrase "the internet levels the playing feild" is so true.


They made mistakes, now the smaller guy is benefiting.




(p.s. my writing is horrible latley, guess i wont be starting that blog any time soon)

 

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