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		scalatohaskell on May 12, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Startup Graveyard – History Shouldn't Have to Repe... It needs to be marginally better. Slighly is not good enough to gain momentum.

mathattack on May 13, 2017 [–]

Some would say at least 10X better. Google won because pagerank crushed keyword searches, and gmail Gabe 20X the free inbox that hotmail gave.

scalatohaskell on May 18, 2017 | [–]

yea perhaps. This is case where it's simple(r) to measure, but that's not always the case.

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