Bleach: Oh, sorry, I see what you meant. Yes, you're right, the empty cup was going in.
Kayuda...The necessary and sufficient problem was that we didn't have a viable business model. We had an awesome piece of technology that could do many things no one else could do, but we didn't know how to actually make money with it.--or at least not lose money. There were some other issues as well, but everything else could have been solved if we had just been able to break even. That one was my fault...I started the company with inaccurate and/or unrealistic expectations about viral growth and the availability of advertising dollars.
I'm sorry for that - I wouldn't know a business model if it bit me, myself. :/ Otherwise maybe I wouldn't be so very unemployed right now and be self-employed instead.
Are you going to make another try with it at some point, maybe a partnership?
Well, first I'd have to come up with a believable business model for it, which would probably require significant restructuring of the code to fit it to a particular purpose. I don't know that I'm interested in doing that.
More likely I'll eventually get around to releasing it as open source. That's not a trivial process though; I'd have to dig up an old archive (which I /think/ I have, but I'm not sure), then I'd have to get the code into some form that I was willing to release--my developer staff never thought that silly things like "documentation" were worth doing, even when the CEO (that would be me) demanded them. Once it's in a decent form, I'd have to really think through how I feel about the various licenses...GPL and BSD would be the main candidates, but there are things that I dislike about both of them. Maybe Perl Artistic License, actually, which is pretty good on its own and gives the user the option of defaulting to GPL.
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Kayuda...The necessary and sufficient problem was that we didn't have a viable business model. We had an awesome piece of technology that could do many things no one else could do, but we didn't know how to actually make money with it.--or at least not lose money. There were some other issues as well, but everything else could have been solved if we had just been able to break even. That one was my fault...I started the company with inaccurate and/or unrealistic expectations about viral growth and the availability of advertising dollars.
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Are you going to make another try with it at some point, maybe a partnership?
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More likely I'll eventually get around to releasing it as open source. That's not a trivial process though; I'd have to dig up an old archive (which I /think/ I have, but I'm not sure), then I'd have to get the code into some form that I was willing to release--my developer staff never thought that silly things like "documentation" were worth doing, even when the CEO (that would be me) demanded them. Once it's in a decent form, I'd have to really think through how I feel about the various licenses...GPL and BSD would be the main candidates, but there are things that I dislike about both of them. Maybe Perl Artistic License, actually, which is pretty good on its own and gives the user the option of defaulting to GPL.