Ask HN: What does "launch" really mean? Is "beta" a private launch?
Do you have to have "major media exposure" to call your site launched? How many private users qualify for a successful beta trial? Thanks!
With particular regards to these words, they mean whatever Marketing wants them to mean. To a first approximation, I'd describe any service I can get into with a web browser and a credit card but no strings pulled on my behalf as "launched." But if Marketing says that it isn't really, truly launched until TC gets their exclusive, I would not burn my karma arguing with Marketing over the point.