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neworbit
on May 5, 2011
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What are some startup ideas that persistently fail...
Question and answer sites usually fall in this category (irony of this being on Quora is not lost on anyone)
jdp23
on May 5, 2011
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Naver, yahoo answers, answers.com, and stackoverflow are counterexamples. You're right though that there are a lot of failures
hasenj
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I would classify yahoo answers as mostly a failure.
jdp23
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Really? It's been a top-30 web site for four or five years ... Why do you see it as a failure?
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