http://gigaom.com/2007/09/12/5-ways-to-leverage-lastfms-successful-learning-curve/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2007/09/12/5-ways-to-leverage-lastfms-successful-learning-curve/#comment-180177 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:29:06 +0000 http://foundread.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/5-ways-to-leverage-lastfms-successful-learning-curve/#comment-180177 [...] Starting up shortly after the dot-com bubble burst and with the napster shutdown as a deterrent basing point , the three had a hard time acquiring financial support: “it was the worst time [to approach people for money] – we’d just mention MP3s and everyone would raise their hands and say they didn’t want anything to do with it”. In consequence, the team needed to rely on a variety of creativity solutions, including “an alternative [plan B-] job at the Post Office or something not too strenuous”, asking “people not to write about us” because of limited server capacity (PDA – the digital content blog), or “cooking our programmers lunch and letting them camp on our roof terrace (…) because we could not pay them.” (Foundread.com) [...]

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