Startups That Came Back From The Dead
Mashable:
There is such a thing as recovery in the world of web 2.0. It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen; sometimes the catalyst is a new feature or option; sometimes the service was simply waiting to be discovered; and sometimes there’s no good reason at all; the tipping point appears out of nowhere.
The five cases I’ve described below are all very different and these companies were never really “dead.†They all share a same basic trait, though: their future looked grim at one point, but they managed to bounce back and continue growing.
Pluck was acquired by Demand Media. What do you think, based on the traffic graph above, when did the sale occur? Somewhere around January 2006? Wrong. Pluck was doing quite nice as an RSS reader back in the day, but its popularity stalled in 2006, and at the end of that year they completely ditched the [...]
Original post by Rich and software by Elliott Back
