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What Went Wrong With Joost?
http://gigaom.com/2009/06/30/what-went-wrong-with-joost/

Joost, a much-vaunted online video startup, today announced that it will offer a white-label video hosting platform, thus entering a crowded market littered with the carcasses of other failed video hosts. The company is also losing its famous chief executive, Mike Volpi, whom it’s replacing with Matt Zelesko, the current vice president of engineering. And it plans to cut a portion of its workforce — between about 70 of its remaining 90 employees, according to Advertising Age. It also shut down its office in the Netherlands.
Joost had an early mover advantage and then stumbled, in the end, it mostlyl boiled down to a lack of content.
Why did not Joost deliver?