"If you’re an investor, I’m looking for a partner to help me make Clicker the Ask.com of online video guides. I think you’ll find SetJam is a real bargain!"
It's still one of the top 50 sites worldwide (according to Alexa at least), with a fraction of the employees of google and a pretty good demographic of users who click on ads. Its history may not be stellar but as a business, it's not a bad company.
Disclaimer: I used to work at Ask.com so I might not be all that objective.
You're probably not, but IMO you're right. As long as you're making money, you're not a failure. When you owe money and have no hope of turning it around, that's when you're a real failure.
(I'd love to know I was wrong - I'd put a funny line at the end of every blog post I do for Dawdle.)
I don't think it's a nice quote because it's about Clicker losing. Doesn't sound like a convincing pitch. The whole "let's not read the article because I might not like what I see" attitude also doesn't inspire confidence.
His honesty and frankness is cool, though.
He didn't ignore it altogether, he just waited for the right time.