Stetoscope

This morning I received an email from a web service that was saying :

“Today is a sad day for us. We have decided to terminate the X service as of the end of the month (June 30th, 2009).  The service received excellent reviews and had an enthusiastic core user base. However, we were not able to demonstrate (especially in these economic times) that X would ever be prevalent enough for us to adequately monetize the business, either though ads or subscriptions. This is obviously very disappointing, but building the X platform was a lot of fun, and it was wonderful to see how many of you used our tool to express yourselves in a deep and meaningful way.”

On monday, the founding team of pearltrees was signing with its shareholders a new fundraising that will offer us an opportunity period of two years. Will opportunity knock for pearltrees where this team, where this project failed? Tech media are selling a dream, the dream that innovation leads to success undoubtedly because they just deal with success, they never talk about the deads. It is just like the rock n’ roll bands myth that haunts a lot teenagers (and sometimes olders) minds. I think, it is a good sign for pearltrees to receive that message just when we are about to start a new period that could seems easier than the founding time. I think the hardest period just starts now.

Still, I am sad for these team, for their efforts, for their common dream. But, I know them, I know their background and think they will do a great job with anothr project.

PS : I warmly recommend you this movie “being there”, which the last one of Peter Sellers, it deals with the relativity of fate and success.