Denver news startup backs off on goal

InDenverTimes.com was an experiment born from the ashes of the Rocky Mountain News. Organizers said it would take 50,000 paid subscribers by April 23rd to convince them to turn the experiment into a full-fledged operation. But as we’ve mentioned before, 50,000 in a market the size of Denver is a huge number — impossible, really, considering not many people will pay for content — and now InDenverTimes is backing off that goal. “I think what you’ll find is that the subscriber number is ultimately not going to dictate the April 23rd go or no-go discussion,” co-founder Kevin Preblud told Westword. “What we will evaluate on April 23rd is a combination of subscribers and visitors to the site, and that ultimately our decision whether to make our May 4 official launch is dictated by the traffic we have generated in these first five weeks.”

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  1. No-brainer

    Posted by Anonymous | April 20, 2009, 1:11 pm
  2. read this a.m. that the investor mentioned above and the others coughing up the coin have bailed, the venture will not be going by the name indenvertimes either.

    (this tidbit comes courtesy of my friends @ tdc)

    Posted by invitedmedia | April 23, 2009, 7:02 am
  3. The InDenverTimes venture is dead. All journalists have been told the venture is a no-go during a conference call Wednesday night around 6 p.m. local time. The site is no longer active.

    Posted by emdmgx | April 24, 2009, 12:21 am
  4. Все четко расписано. Будем думать))

    Posted by gigantv | April 26, 2009, 12:29 am
  5. Да уж Читаю и понимаю, что ничего не понимаю о чем речь)

    Posted by zerge | April 26, 2009, 1:23 am
  6. Радует, что ваш блог постоянно развивается. Такие посты только прибавляют популярности.

    Posted by Gildaitis | April 26, 2009, 2:31 am
  7. Cory, you been seeing skinny Russkie dancer chiks again?

    Posted by Anonymous | April 27, 2009, 11:08 pm
  8. If it’s DEAD, what the hell was I reading a minute ago?

    The “photo op” over NYC was news yesterday and that can’t mean anything died!

    Posted by Anonymous | April 27, 2009, 11:11 pm

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