Yutaka Shinohara: lessons learned from everconnect.me

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Social network aggregation service EverConnect.me closed down in September. We were able to chat with CEO and founder Yutaka Shinohara, who shared with us a few insights and lessons learned from this venture. EverConnect was launched as a social media aggregation service that brings together streams from different networks, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Foursquare, Google+ and even Gmail. We featured EverConnect in July, with the highlight on EverConnect launching from Mount Fuji , Japan’s highest mountain. The service was unable to reach its next peak, though, and had to quietly wrap up its operations on September 7 . Shinohara-san shared a few insights, and we quote below (edited for formatting). What made you decide to stop the service? “It was very difficult decision for me to stop everconnect.me service. But we could not make enough money by business monetiza...

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