Man is this a horrible deal or what? Radar raised more than $20M and probably sold for pennies on the dollar. Evri now owns two bad products, not one, so no one really wins here.

I’m the CEO of Twine. Please read my commentary on the deal here. http://www.novaspivack.com/uncategorized/evri-ties-the-knot-with-twine

Man how can you burn $24M for nothing ???

I guess Nova Spivack spent his last $1M to get the word “acquisition” in the press release.

Most of Radar’s development team is long gone, so there is not too much of a talent acquisition for Evri.

Oh, Twine, the Hype Parade surrounding that product, the expectations, the let down.

What are they buying exactly, code? perishable, un patented code (is that right?).

Oh, you entrepreneurs. Oh, Calcutta !

Congratulations to both Evri and Twine. I am now expecting some great stuff to come out of this formidable combination. Semantic search is hot as evidenced by success of a number of start-ups including my own.

I will remind people that Evri isn’t exactly knocking the cover off the ball.

Peter Drucker will be turning in his grave!

Actually all of the leaders of the Twine engineering and product team remain at Twine and are joining Evri.

Sorry to the trolls here who would like to paint this in a more negative way, but in fact Evri is acquiring a lot — including a large existing user-based, tons of content, patents, a major platform, and a lot of momentum. Twine’s T2 system is a major innovation, and it’s going to be a big asset to Evri.

If Twine had so much then they would have been able to garner more funding. Selling now before truly accomplishing their goals is a way of saying they fell short. This had to be a distressed sale. It’s not like Evri had a war chest of cash on hand for acquisitions. C’mon folks, let’s get real here.

Very nice commentary. Particularly loved the story behind Twine, the recession and the acquisition. There are useful lessons for fellow entrepreneurs.

Can you share insights on possible repeatable revenue models for semantic web startups? (those that do not involve getting acquired by a big company).

Many companies in this domain have gone the way of the deadpool, or focused on certain verticals (like eDiscovery – Stratify), or plunged into enterprise search (Endeca), or sold technology to power other sites (Daylife). There’s hardly any service that made revenue from users – through a subscription model. Kosmix appears to be making revenue through their verticals (which look more like mashups these days, than the vertical search portals they started as).

If twine has 1000 users left, I would amazed. It was all but admitted by Nova on his blog post that T1 was on auto-pilot for quite some time now.

You might be right that all of the “leaders” of twine are joining Evri, meaning managers, but those people are also responsible for running Radar into the ground in the first place. Those leaders have nowhere to go anyway; people with marketable skills (engineers) have better things to do.

The “unusual suspect” turned out to be Evri. Oh the irony.

Snip from prev TC

“Rumors are swirling that Radar Networks is deep in M&A discussions with the “usual suspects.” In search, the usual suspects are Google and Bing. Spivack won’t comment on any rumors, but says that T2 is on track and that no other search engine is currently licensing it. Earlier this week, for what it’s worth, he did Tweet about how he was running around to “insane” meetings, right after he Tweeted that “Google still has a great cafeteria.” And after Bing launched its new recipe feature, he sent out this enigmatic Tweet:”

No thanks. I won’t bite your link bait.

It was only a matter of time. I have no hard feelings against Nova but the truth is had he been honest the whole way through he never would have received the 2nd round of funding in the first place. The economic crisis was actually a lucky event for Nova since it gave him a great excuse to explain why RN had to shut down (in the form of getting bought out for next to nothing). Everybody on the inside knows what really happened and if you can get them off the record, they will tell you. Just ask them, was Nova being honest from the beginning about the real user growth? Was he being honest about how Twine could scale? Was he being honest about Twine’s capabilities? Was he spending a lot of time making sure the company was using its capital effectively and making sure the foundations were solid?

Are you out of your mind?

Spivack’s detailed story of Twine contains some interesting bits (see the end of the challenges of scaling RDF triple store) but the man spins it once again out of control…: the reason traffic fell drastically in the summer of last year has not to do with the recession but with Google shutting them down, as I reported at the time (news that was confirmed by the company itself…) http://www.semanticsincorporated.com/2009/09/twine-confirms-traffic-drop-on-readwriteweb-but-spins-it-out-of-control.html.

The story is a fabrication and such unethical behavior should not go unchecked. I am really tired of seeing entrepreneurs rewarded for dishonest actions and some much more honest ones struggling to raise money – investors should know better.

The reason they could not raise money has also little to do with the recession: the pseudo “T2″ plan was an attempt at spinning their Google failure. As many of us noted, it couldn’t work, because they are seeking to automate semantics for the web and the only realistic way to do that for the time being is to either specialize vertically or to remain too shallow horizontally. Spivack, of course, hyped it and announced they’d do it all. What a clown. There is no silver bullet and I am glad no one (but Vulcan) was fooled into this new spin.

This last attempt at spinning things and saving face is ridiculous. The reason the terms were not disclosed is most likely because Twine was given away for free. I don’t for one second believe Spivack’s claim that large companies tried to buy them – at least not for more than the cost of their herman miller chairs.

Very sad.

[...] Evri Acquires Radar Networks In Semantic Search Consolidation [...]

One portfolio company “acquiring” another portfolio company is not an acquisition. It’s a gimmick to spin LPs.

they didn’t even own the herman miller chairs – they came with the rented office.

What engineering leaders? All of those left the building long ago. Anyone with a brain fled.

It’s ironic that Mr. Boutin, who was fired from another semantic web company on bad terms, and who is well-known to most executives and thought-leaders in the semantic web community as an egomaniac and a hater, would be lecturing anyone about “ethics.” So unprofessional.

[...] Today I am pleased to announce that my company, Radar Networks, and its flagship product, Twine, have been acquired by Evri. TechCrunch broke the story here. [...]

[NOTICE: Twine’s demise is a tragedy but Radar Networks only have themselves to blame.

Nova, RN management, RN representatives and others would be advised NOT to ever again defame, slur, troll, flame, disrespect, misrepresent or bully Twain and not take on board her strategic insights.]

Here follow the real learning lessons from Twine.

This is how Twine launched itself:

* http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/21/twine-we-organize-that-shit/

Clearly they couldn’t organize their own s*** much less anyone else’s. Oh and if that video was a “joke” as they claimed then this sale to evri shows that the joke is obviously on RN.

It’s interesting that Nova concedes in his blog post: “Often friendships and personal loyalties prevent or delay leaders from firing people that really should be fired. While friendship and loyalty are noble they unfortunately are not always the best thing for the business.”

So who should have been fired early on for the s*** way Twine was marketed, the s*** way they treated the core users who had provided great user feedback, handheld newbies (even written user guides in my case) and the fact Twine ended up strangling itself?

Answer: Nova so the VCs have got the right outcome in the end.

Worse, contrary to RN’s face-saving spin about how the core users stuck with them the facts are that RN team not only failed to address the spam nonsense which was ramping up their traffic (which Greg Boutin comments on in his link and also here in response to Twine’s claims of “explosive growth”: http://venturebeat.com/2009/02/06/twine-explosively-growing-is-an-early-success/) — they also caused the enjoyment and utility of the site for users to decrease. RN did a lot to alienate their users in the UI design, miscommunications and lack of delivery.

The VCs too were sold short; sometimes they get an undeservedly bad rap and this is so with the Twine case. Why should they do what Nova suggests, “Founders should continue to have strong equity upside even if they bring in operator CEO’s later on.”

WTH?!

Mark Zuckerberg, Brin+Page, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, Pierre Omidayr, Jeff Bezos and more are ALL founder-CEOs. Why should VCs give equity to any weak founders who have poor strategic, operational, team management and financial skills when they could spend their time and money allocating it to founders of substance, strategic smarts and staying power who are infinity% committed not only to a vision but to a genuine legacy and realization? Visionary founder-CEOs who, sure, don’t always get it right first-time but at least try to respond quickly to any negativity and lead their teams to improvements on behalf of their core audience.

Founder-CEOs who don’t keep steering their platform towards the iceberg (as Nova did) when the community on board is doing its utmost to navigate the platform towards green pastures! No, don’t blame the VCs or the community. Let the founder take responsibility for having ideas but no strategic implementation nous.

It’s precisely cases like Twine that make it difficult for other start-ups to get investment.

It’s also interesting that in his Top 10 tips of lessons learned nowhere is the one about “RESPECT YOUR COMMUNITY, LISTEN TO WHAT THEY WANT AND DELIVER WHAT THEY NEED.”

Let’s quote some Peter Drucker at Nova:

• “The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.”

• “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.”

• “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”

Now let’s look at the results: A US$24 million company is being acquired by a US$8 million company. The financiers amongst us know this is what is known as a “reverse takeover”. Go look it up and also look up debt, IP devaluation and firesale at the same time.

Re making speeches, Nova has gained himself a reputation for “spin” and perpetrating s*** as he did in Twine’s launch video (even as a joke, it says something about his approach and are signs of the very lack of CEO quality he talks about).

In his blog post Nova wants to present the case that it was the recession that strangled Twine. Here are 3 simple facts:

(i.) The recession started in summer 2007, it didn’t start in 2009 during the first conception for or development of T2.

(ii.) As far back as October 2008, I tagged this link into Twine:

* http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/10/sequoia-capitals-56-slide-powerpoint-presentation-of-doom/

Sequoia Capital itself provides a lead on how NOT TO BURN CASH. I made Nova aware of this presentation and some of us (including Yihong Ding, a notable semantic researcher) discussed it in a lot of detail on the threads. So for Radar Networks to go against the advice of one of the best Silicon Valley VCs by INCREASING its engineering spend on T2 when T1 wasn’t even fixed (despite all the core users’ assistance on User Feedback) says a lot about RN management team’s strategic and operational abilities.

Plus obviously wasting marketing spend on attracting spam traffic, loading the system and various miscommunications to users that they then backtracked on.

(3.) T2 was scheduled for delivery in spring 2009 — at least that’s what they communicated to the Twine community.

So if they knew running two parallel projects T1 and T2 was burning cash faster than they could source revenue, why did RN management not do this: monetize T1 first, shelve T2 in Q1 2009, conserve cash and headcount and shepherd the company into Q3 2010 when the fund raising environment will likely pick up?

Then again, knowing Twine strategy as I did since Nova once sent me a SemTech 2008 presentation to sanity check, this ending for Twine isn’t unexpected. His marketing manager (the same one who produced and released the s*** video) used 2002/2003 data to do customer and competitor analysis. Any strategy person worth their salt knows that if you want to project revenues or client numbers for a five year plan 2008-2012, the latest research you draw upon is Q4 2007 — not 2002/2003. Any marketing person worth their salt would provide video how-tos and user guides during closed beta and not months after public launch. Any marketing person worth their salt WOULD NOT INSULT their community with a s*** video but would apply their smarts to UNDERSTAND THEIR TARGET AUDIENCE AND SERVE THEM.

Instead Twine’s marketing and community management team left newbies to struggle and others to desert the platform.

Given this lack of strategic knowhow in RN’s team it’s not surprising at all that they stayed pre-revenue, didn’t know who their target audience was, had no strategic focus during the build and never gained traction on the scales needed to attract additional funding.

It was all avoidable — if they hadn’t decided to concoct falsehoods and underhand tactics to exclude me, deleted users’ content, breached user privacy, stamped on legitimate concerns and improvement suggestions by people like Greg Boutin and disrespected the core users who had done so much to champion the site, handhold newbies, produce quality content and offer smart insights on UI, technical aspects of semantics and business models.

That’s right. In exchange for the core users’ consideration and collaboration during closed beta RN team rewarded the community with that launch:

• http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/21/twine-we-organize-that-shit/

They were so insensitive to and clueless about the community’s sensibilities that they then said it was a “joke” and that we had no sense of humor. Actually, the Twine community has plenty of wit and humor (we repeatedly endured lack of delivery on the part of Twine team, didn’t we?). We just didn’t appreciate the tackiness of our smart content being sold or labeled as s*** and for that label to then attract SEO spammers of actual s***.

To disrespect users even more RN closed key twines (User Feedback, repeatedly) and created what one core user called “a nursery” known as The Lounge. A nursery…………..for the very people who were producing the smart content, handholding newbies and sparking the interesting threads?!

WTH!

Users were also subject to untold volumes of spam which the core users flagged repeatedly and RN took little action about because…….it all helped the 3 million traffic count that they trumpeted everywhere and still do in Nova’s post. (The guy has no sense of how much he insults the intelligence of Twine community or others. It was SPAM count not genuine smart engagement traffic.)

Of course, RN falsely accused me of spamming the system. This was somewhat ironic since I was the one who pushed for a “REPORT THIS” feature and I was the one who told Nova in no uncertain terms that it was unacceptable for RN to allow porn spam and other nonsense to block users’ newsfeeds with trash when the users had spent months — if not years — carefully and collaboratively cultivating smart, quality content for the community.

I was the one who wrote user guides and handheld newbies with fellow core users long before Twine’s marketing manager even thought to take care of the community.

So that’s the whole tangled up mess and twisted lesson in Business 101 that is the real Twine story.

A key lesson Nova should learn from the Twine experience is DO NOT DEFAME, TROLL OR DISPRESPECT Twain or any other member of the community who tried to make Twine a success.

He’s a Buddhist, so he’ll understand this……..

K-A-R-M-A, it comes and kicks you where it hurts.

He once wrote, “You are Twine, Twain.” No, Twine was an artificial intelligence system that became a poison ivy that throttled itself. Twain is a human being with a smart brain who doesn’t take s*** from you or anyone else and respects the communities she’s helped to build with strategic knowhow and collaborate on.

R.I.P., RN and Twine.

Viva Twain!

[Seriously, please don’t anyone imagine they can defame, slur, troll, flame, disrespect, misrepresent or bully Twain and not take on board her strategic skills.

Karma doesn’t reward anyone who does that to Twain or other decent people like Twine's core users, actually.]

tip of the iceberg folks.

As someone who has been in the Twine user community for a long time, all I can say is that this kind of self-aggrandizing crazy rant is exactly why ms. Twain Luu was kicked out of twine and banned for life. Good riddance! Twine was much better once we were rid of her. As for Nova, I never met him but he always seemed very respectful of the community. I am glad they found a good home for all our data!

Greg Boutin is another one they kicked out of twine. This thread is just all the people that got kicked out or layed off. Pathetic. Get a life.

Twain Luu was kicked out of twine and banned for life for spamming everyone. Nobody missed her after she was gone.

They called themselves RADAR Networks and couldn’t detect their own icebergs or the business environment?

Everyone — even people who are not the grandson of Peter Drucker — knows there are 4 simple tenets in business:

(1.) Know, respect and serve your customer.

(2.) Know, respect and be better than your competitors.

(3.) Save your pennies for a rainy day.

(4.) Build the smartest team you can and adapt to changing circumstances appropriately.

With T2, Radar Networks seems to have thought they could burn their way out of the global recession all by themselves! See (3.) and (4.).

Here’s another aspect of Twine becoming a spamalot poison ivy rather than a flourishing ecosystem of smarts and semantics.

RN not only disrespected core users’ contributions, they also
appropriated their IP. They shut down User Feedback so there is no open evidence of core users troubleshooting key technical issues and explaining how to architect a better UI, RDF store and user engagement tools which are now likely to be…………in the T2 patent filings.

We are not talking about typical user feedback like “Oh, this is cool!” or “Hey why don’t you put this on the Interest Feed.” We are talking DETAILED IMPLEMENTABLE architecture brainstorming with Twine’s development team.

If there are any smart angel investors or VCs out there, they should consider approaching those core Twine users and incentivizing them to build their version of a semantic social network.

Those core users are the real smarts behind Twine. Without their contributions, goodwill and technical knowhow Twine asphyxiated itself.

isn’t it at this point its a fait accompli?

I heard a rumor that Vulcan has raised and spent a lot more than Twine, internally. Remember Vulcan is owned by Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founder gazillionaire. Evri states that only $8 million has been raised, but people who know tell me otherwise. In fact the real number is probably closer to $30 million. Remember they bought some other semantic company a while back too? And they hired up a bunch of semantic experts to work full-time in Vulcan. There’s something cooking over there. Paul Allen has been investing a lot into Evri. He’s making a big move there.

Not. Twine has several hundred thousand users, in fact.

Twain Luu was one of the original Twine users. Later she was kicked out of Twine several times and finally banned for life because of spamming all the users, and making personal attacks on users and admins of the site. Anything she writes should be taken with a huuuuge grain of salt. She is extremely biased and has never gotten over the fact that she was punished for breaking the rules. Some people never learn. In any case, her facts are totally wrong. And anyone who used Twine in the early days knows the story. She’s on a tirade, again, it seems. Poor Twain, she just has nothing better to do than write long essays about how important she thinks she is. Get. A. Life. Twain.

I heard from someone close to Vulcan that Paul Allen is actually spending a lot more on Evri than people know or than is being reported. Probably a lot more than Twine spent in fact. So I wouldn’t be so sure that it was a bad deal. Remember that Vulcan acquired some other semantic company a while back and folded it into Evri. And he hired up a bunch of semantic phd’s. And the guy is a billionaire after all. Evri is his new pet project and he’s had his sights set on Twine for a long time. I think Evri has enormous funding behind it. I’m betting we’re going to see some big things from Evri + Twine this year.

How do you know that? More details please… can you prove that?

Actually all the senior engineers, senior architects, and many of the key coders, remain at Twine. Evri got the core team, and the platform.

I’m a Twine user and I’m pretty excited about the possibilities of combining my twines with Evri streams.

Nice!!!!

Congrats to the Twine team!!!!

Whoever this anonymous user is, I’d suggest you stick to facts related to the case rather than libel someone’s character. That’s what I did when bringing up my arguments: they are all backed by facts that can be verified on independent websites like quantcast.com, compete.com, and by respected authors such as those at readwriteweb.

I am not hiding behind a false identity to bring them up.

As for being fired from another semantic web company, you are correct and I have never hidden that fact, nor the explanation. It’s mentioned on my blog, where you probably learnt it. The company had missed 3 product release deadlines, and as the marketing director, I expressed my rightful concerns. To this day, no successful product has been released by the company. My predecessor there was fired, as well as 2 of my successors, as well as many other people. The bad terms are related to that.

So I understand that you may be angry about my comments because they don’t match your opinion, but I feel very much warranted to tell you your approach is unethical.

Also as far as I know I am still a member of Twine – for what it’s worth.

Other than all of the key coders that have bailed? Check LinkedIn..

how can you say such a total lie?

everyone left, how can someone say they’re all still there, when its not true? Why lie?

Twain! It’s been over a year since the feedback forum was shut down. Probably almost 2 years since you were kicked out. Get over it. It’s time to move on with life. Do you not realize how much of a loser this makes you look? I feel embarrassed for you. Always have. You don’t even understand why you were kicked out. Try reading your own words sometime… you’re neurotic, narcissistic, and extremely insecure. Any talent or intelligence you have is negated by the fact that you are crazy. It might be time for you to take a good look at yourself.

What I never understood about Twine was where alle the semantic web and natural language analysis stuff were hidden. There seems to be a huge discrepancy between Nova Spivack’s talks about SW, RDF, etc. and the actual functionality exposed on Twine. Sure there were some entitity recognition but that seemed to be about it (and it didn’t work very good). Nothing relational, nothing structured, nothing ontological, no linking with external data sources. I always wondered if I missed something.

One thing positive – The top 10 email I got always contained many interesting links.

Not true, in total over the lifetime of the product it had had several hundred thousand users, but the number of ACTIVE users are now minimal.

I missed Twain a lot for her personality and knowledge. I used to be an active user, but ever since migrated to Evernote which is MUCH more useful

what about privacy? Did Twine have complete access to peoples computers through their bookmarklet?

Also, contrary to RN’s crap about how Twain never recovered from her exclusion and has *issues*, Twain is glad she was excluded from Twine because:

(1.) Nova showed his true colors.

After months of all his emails begging her to, “Please help me with this newbie…….Please do a user guide……I consider you my friend….”

He showed himself to be nothing but about s***.

(2.) She didn’t waste her time populating Twine in the hope it would become something smarter and better than it turned out to be.

S*** AND SPIN.

Everyone can imagine the core original users are not at all pleased that they put all their content up there, T2 never happened, they kept patiently waiting and being supportive, and RN couldn’t get its s*** together.

Yeah and people won’t find many of the core original users going to help any user community that involves Nova Spivack ever again.

They don’t want their time to be wasted on more s*** and spin.

Let’s check facts on who’s crazy.

Nova Spivack and Radar Networks burned through $24 million, didn’t deliver on their own hype, had no revenue model, ran out of money, laid off their staff and ended up in a distressed sale.

That’s crazy right there.

Oh well, TWINE REST IN PEACE.

Taking out all the Radar Network versus Greg Boutin, Twain Luu or whoever did or did not get kicked out, engineers who were or were not laid off…………

The record is RADAR NETWORKS TWINE = OFFICIAL FAIL.

If it was a success T2 would have been released summer 2009, Radar Networks would have the confidence of investors, money would have been raised, Twine would not bleed users, Radar Networks would not have laid off staff and Radar Networks would not have had to sell itself in a firesale.

Bottom line, take out the Radar Networks versus whoever and the fact speaks for itself.

RADAR NETWORKS + TWINE = FAIL + RIP.

Oops missed one. It’s been commented here and other tech blogs how Nova Spivack is hype, spin and no cigar.

So since RN is a fail and an RIP, as Radar Network’s CEO the responsibility for the failures are his.

The buck and s*** stops with NOVA SPIVACK’s spin = FAIL.

Shame Radar Networks didn’t check in all the mirrors and use that huuuuge grain of salt to melt the icebergs that Nova Spivack crashed and burned his own company into.

Nova Spivack’s the loser.

$24 MILLION……….that’s a lot of salt right there.

Twine – it all together ⇒ throttled itself into Radar Networks firesale.

This despite having smart and collaborative core users who did Tech, Marketing and User Support for newbies because Radar Networks couldn’t get their s*** together.

Nova Spivack wrote that he wanted to build ‘The Global Brain’ (http://www.twine.com/item/11xg3g873-xs/watch-my-best-talk-the-global-brain-is-coming). Pity he didn’t have the brains himself:

• not to burn $24 million and end up delivering a semantic nothing;

• not to listen to and respect the Twine community; and

• not to take on board users’ legitimate concerns — about the spam, about the UI, about everything which ended up sinking his own company.

His MO for users expressing legitimate concerns was either kicking them out, getting his Radar Networks henchmen to make false accusations about their character on tech blogs or both.

FICTION: whatever s*** and spin Radar Networks, Nova Spivack and the thugs want to throw at and about Twain.

FACT: END OF THE TWINE LINE AND RADAR NETWORKS BECAUSE OF NOVA SPIVACK’S NONSENSE.

There, Twine’s all tied up.

You heard more s*** and spin and want to spread it?

IF Paul Allen had his sights set on Twine for such a long time……….

WHY DIDN’T HE INTERVENE SOONER WITH HIS CHECKBOOK SINCE HE’S A MAJOR INVESTOR IN RADAR NETWORKS AND GET T2 OUT THE DOOR — WITH THE RADAR NETWORKS TEAM INTACT AND NOT BLEEDING USERS, TRAFFIC OR STAFF?

Purlease, Paul Allen is a respected billionaire for a good reason. Smart investors do not continue to throw money down the drain on management teams, strategies and business models that CONSISTENTLY DON’T DELIVER AND CAN’T ADAPT TO CHANGING MARKET ENVIRONMENTS OR WITH THEIR COMMUNITIES ON BOARD.

Since this is likely an equity-based deal, Paul Allen clearly did not sign off on new cash injection for Radar Networks. He signed off on Will Hunsinger being a better value proposition as CEO than Nova Spivack.

After all under Nova Spivack’s leadership his team did burn $24 MILLION and delivered a tangle of twine.

Radar Networks doesn’t even have the benefit of being start-up newbies who might not know how dot busts happen.

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well, evri has dumped the dishes out with the water now. they unceremoniously deleted ALL twine content and comment, sent the user base a useless backup of dead links, and now they are spamming every per-existing twine account with bs evri 'feeds' of popular trash. what a waste of everyone's time, energy and talent.

unfortunately, facts isn't covering all the facts. and that grain of salt isn't all that huge. there are large truths to what twain states, and a larger truth that many, unfortunately, will never know, now that evri has wiped out all traces of twine. good thing there are still screenshots…