One year old data is better than most, is my guess. I was surprised by the call center route too. I know they were in talks with a particular company for automation.

Btw, there are mobile-only companies that have done rather well for themselves in an even shorter span of time. Someone told me that Ver Se is one such co, though that's entirely hearsay. Our request to inputs from Ver Se were not responded to by either Matrix Partners nor Ver Se themselves, so we weren't able to confirm.

Regarding profitability/revenues/breakeven – is asklaila.com not a bit too young to be asked such questions. They have hit upon a business model only 6 months back and will need to iterate on that to make money.

But the more unfortunate question is why is asklaila doing everything they claimed they would never do. They never wanted to go the call center route (as it doesnt scale) – but were forced to. Their data was great a year back – but data easily becomes outdated.

PS: I have interviewed with asklaila before and have not heard back from them till now. :D. But I do have respect for the people there – and think they were onto something.

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