A Tale of Two Start-Ups: Pinterest Grows While Zynga Stumbles

The internet is a fickle mistress. One day you’re begging people to listen to your idea, then suddenly a wave of traffic overwhelms your server. You ramp up, move to a bigger server, hire more people and start taking call after call from the media. Then, just as suddenly, you have a room full of employees all living on Ramen noodles because the money’s gone along with 90% of the users. All that’s left behind are 1,000′s of profiles that haven’t been updated in the

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