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"This was a great business pivot."

Yes, indeed. Would love to hear more details about it. Mixergy interview maybe?

It was actually a really tough decision to make. Having to let go of something you poured blood (literally), sweat and tears over. In the end, the decision was the right one. The business Picwing is in now is profitable, has a much larger market, and scales better. Plus, something about mailing baby photos to grandparents makes me feel good inside.

It was a very good decision. My wife will become a customer about 12 seconds after I tell her about it tonight.

this is actually the #1 benefit of going after a large market and why VCs often invest (1) in the market (2) in the team and (3) in the current product (in that order).

If you are in a good market, and spend enough time slamming your head against the wall, you'll probably find a way to make money.

Alright, I have to ask.

>blood (literally)

Care to elaborate?

We were manually putting together the Picwing frames, and drilling holes were involved. The spinning drill bit slipped out of the hole and went into my forearm. A trip to the ER, a few stitches and tetanus shots, and a couple thousand dollars later, I was good to go =)

Ouch. Yet another reason to use VPSes/cloud hosting :)

That's a nearly Reddit-level non-sequiter ;)

The "Picwing frame" is/was an actual photo frame - http://www.picwing.com/blog/?p=22; I don't think edawerd drilled into himself assembling a server.

Oh, ok. I hadn't heard of it and wasn't reading carefully, so I was thinking a server rack

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