How to Kill a Great Idea

scribd.com

24 points·staunch··8 comments

Here is a non-stolen link with pictures: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070601/features-how-to-kill-a-great-idea.html

Some mods care to fix the main link please?

When did this site gets mods? If pg's not around to fix it, it stays broken, I think.

There are about 15 editors.

Good to know.

The beauty of Friendster was its exhaustively complete network. Every time a homepage loaded, Friendster's servers calculated a single user's connection to other users within four degrees of separation, which could mean hundreds of thousands of individuals.

And nobody had a clue this would not scale in 2003?

When there are 6 billion people in the world who are 7 degrees of separation from each other, they thought it would scale to calculate 4 degrees of separation, forever, each and every time somebody loaded any profile? You mean the creator worked for Netscape, and knew a company could have millions of users in a short period of time? You mean to tell me they didn't even implement alternate ways to display friends just in case they had to, due to sudden growth or multiple server failures, etc?

"I want to stress the importance of being young and technical." - Mark Zuckerberg

See, if he'd said "you gotta have experienced business guys controlling your product," he'd be crazy, not arrogant.

stolen or not, thanks for link. very interesting.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com