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22 October 2025 · Articles, Brand, Know-How, Software

Poor Product Design Cost Digg $144m

From $160m to $16m for the social news aggregator. Valued at $160m in 2008 when Digg had 30m users a month, the value plummeted to $16m when its users dropped to 7m a month in 2012. 45 million in funding from A list investors like Marc Andreessen, Reid Hoffman, Greylock Partners and others. This was […]

13 December 2022 · Articles, Innovation, Software

‘Everyone uses opensource it’s fine’

If the product/service at the core of the company is built on too much opensource, the company may not actually be in a position to claim ownership of core business intellectual property (such as proprietary code, copyright and trade secrets) which in turn may yield a company valuation far less than desirable.