Greg Sterling has a good post about BackFence and their position on their CEO change and layoffs:

Potts joked that all the blog posts and articles he’d seen pronouncing Backfence dead, “Was a little like the Monty Python skit where they say, ‘bring out your dead’ and you say, ‘but I’m not dead.’”

Potts (the current CEO) goes on to talk about the company’s strategy to grow more efficiently and to leverage partners so BackFence can focus on what is does best. This makes a ton of sense. There are so many difficult problems in the local space, that the more you can narrow your scope, the more likely you are to succeed.