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Layoffs at InsiderPages and More on Backfence

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TechCrunch is reporting layoffs at InsiderPages, which hasn’t been well since CEO Stu MacFarlane left, followed soon thereafter by biz dev VP Andrew Shotland.

Also, after I wrote my post on Backfence both former CEO Susan DeFife and co-founder/new CEO Mark Potts separately emailed me to say I’d gotten virtually everything about the story wrong. I’m going to talk to both and write more after that. Potts’ emails were upbeat and argued that the site was alive and well.

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