Ezoic financing round

The acquirers of the old Judo Forum, Ezoic have been successful in raising finance.

http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2013/11/13/ezoic-raises-5-6m-introduce-multivariate-testing-web-masses/

What I had not realised was that Ezoic was a startup. Their acquisition of Judo Forum was the single factor that led to its demise.

Jonesy wrote:The acquirers of the old Judo Forum, Ezoic have been successful in raising finance.

http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2013/11/13/ezoic-raises-5-6m-introduce-multivariate-testing-web-masses/

What I had not realised was that Ezoic was a startup. Their acquisition of Judo Forum was the single factor that led to its demise.

What demise? Some VC just gave them $5.6 million bucks.

Perhaps the VC investing in Ezoic hadn't done its homework. Technically incompetent, not caring about its 'customers', failing to follow through on promises to keep the site solid and stable.... the list goes on.

I can't imagine their track record was the same across multiple sites; they'd be out of business in a heartbeat.

The last I heard was the BOD at Ezoic had been made Judo forum 10th dans?  

NBK wrote:Perhaps the VC investing in Ezoic hadn't done its homework.  Technically incompetent, not caring about its 'customers', failing to follow through on promises to keep the site solid and stable.... the list goes on.

I can't imagine their track record was the same across multiple sites; they'd be out of business in a heartbeat.

Young sir, you certainly seem not to have been around the greatest minds of American b-schools lately. Service is a cost to be minimized. And we are supposed to eliminate our most demanding customers because they take up too much of our time. Time means labor cost ... productivity equaling revenue per employee ... the way chosen to improve that indicator has not been to increase revenue, rather to decrease employees since the latter take little creativity or courage ... Wall Street loves this.

Wish I were being facetious ... I am not.

On the bright side, Ezoic recently sold judoinfo.com. I am working with the new owners (judoka.com) to restore it to its former glory. Already the information is fully accessible in the form it was about 5 years ago. I'm happy to see the content move to someone actually interested in judo.

If anyone wants to restore the old forum, maybe they can buy it.

JudoSensei wrote:On the bright side, Ezoic recently sold judoinfo.com. I am working with the new owners (judoka.com) to restore it to its former glory. Already the information is fully accessible in the form it was about 5 years ago. I'm happy to see the content move to someone actually interested in judo.

If anyone wants to restore the old forum, maybe they can buy it.

I noticed that when you provided a link the other day ... it worked great. New owners? Makes sense.

Thanks.