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Co-founder and CEO of TempoDB, http://tempo-db.com

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Groupon IPO on hold 15 years ago

Yes, that makes it interesting. Which is better for previous investors: IPO bomb or another private market raise?

Groupon IPO on hold 15 years ago

A theory: Groupon leaked the memo so that it would be forced to pull the IPO, similar to Wired in 1996.

Pay With A Tweet 16 years ago

We launched a feature like this last year; we called it Tweet to Download (demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIngL60r3_M).

At first it did seem like spamming, but I am at peace with it now. It is analogous to the FB Like button. You should only tweet out stuff that you like, and want to share and download.

The key is to give a sample of the product (in our case song clip) before broadcasting to your social network. I think we could even allow full song stream, and still see similar download/tweet numbers.

In a world where musicians don't get real currency, they are asking for your social currency.

I am skeptical of using products when it's not clear how they make money.

If you give everything away for free, when will it stop being free? When will the bait and switch occur?

If everything truly is free, how long will you be around?