No one is left that has any experience in running a company. This is already over. The “fat” man will sing, but it will be a nasal-toned scream of desperation.

So the President is in Boston, right. Wrong, he’s in New York. Something stinks in Denmark. This company expanded, brought in outside talent, that talent brought in money and now all the outsiders have left. HMMM?

Next announcment: It was sold, but they won’t tell you for how much.

This dog don’t hunt, it’s too obese.

It’s a turd.

Is this a typo of “four” or “more”?

You are using the flawed argument of “you go match that then we’ll see” – did I say I could do better? No. I’m simply analyzing their situation versus Arrington’s assessment of it.

It’s true, they do have a lot of volume, and they actually have me as a customer as well. This isn’t about the product, this is about exaggerating their place in the industry. They are a big company, and growing, but it’s clear that based on their financing they still have a ways to go, and perhaps new methods of monetization to develop to make it there.

And no, I don’t wish I had a job answering 411 calls. Plus, you are grossly minimizing the business expenditures they have (hint: $75 million in funding usually doesn’t go to companies with “not much overhead”). Maybe you should look into how much it costs to successfully sell ads and market a product on a national level.

You are an idiot. 5% of 6 Billion is 300 million, that is a very significant number of calls per year. You come up with a way to get that many calls per year – then come back and share with us. The only thing the company needs to run the system is a server connected to the free411 line someone to market for them and someone to sell advertisements. Not much overhead if you ask me. They don’t even need an office space, everyone could work from home. I’ll bet you wished you could have a job like that.

Why’d you drop operator roll over?

Why’d George leave?

Again, that’s like saying “Delta flies to 200 cities! Yay! But we lost $2 billion! Yay! We fly to so many cities!”

Seriously guys, figure out a model that works and then try pulling a fast one on us.

Paul from 1-800-FREE411 here. I’m not going to get into the financial stuff, but would rather just add that it’s our range of services that’s put us out in front: our number offers business, gov’t, and residential listings (most of our competitors offer only business listings), you can search by name or by category, you can use the number via Skype, and you can get driving directions texted to you immediately following a call. Of course, our business model works well, but it’s also the high quality of the call experience that has led to success.

Thanks,
Paul

You can text 242-242 or call 1.800.224.2242 (1.800.2.ChaCha) and ask ANY question you like.

They also offer super quick stock quotes. Text s plus the ticker name or company name (ex. “s appl” or “s goog”).

Theres weather. Text w and a city name or zip code (ex. w 95015 or w Chicago, IL)

And business info. Text bus businessName in cityName (ex. bus Apple in Cuppertino, CA)

And you can also call and ask these directly.

And is FREE!!

How can you not like this service?

You have to make a profit. Jingle is a failure.

Perhaps copy editing is just another casualty of “web publishing”? What next – dropping all vowels, leaving only the consonants?
To me, it is a pity that this mars an otherwise very good site. At least use a grammar checker, in addition to (I assume) the use of a spelling checker.

That’s 5% of 6B calls PER YEAR. That means $30M recurring revenue annually on a TOTAL of $75m raised.

If the company is marginally profitable on each call as they claim, and presuming they continue to gain market share without dramatically increasing burn, they could very possibly reach break even in the medium-term future.