I'm the user that invested the $500k. Ask me anything.

Assuming, this is true. What did you get in return; are you now a stockholder? Can you get your claim verfied by evernote?

Can you get them to implement highlighting? I want to keep text for reference, with the main points highlighted so I can quickly review it when needed.

Hundreds of fonts and font colours to choose from, yet such a basic feature isn't available... it's puzzling.

could you get in touch? zee@thenextweb.com . thanks.

One reason I've been hesitant to use Evernote is that I don't want to put a lot of valuable information into a service that could easily disappear. I'd actually be more comfortable with Evernote if they charged more because then I'd believe they were actually covering their costs and making a profit.

Erm, aside from the fact that they seem to be in pretty good financial footing these days - given how easy it is to export your data from Evernote, I don't see why you would be hesitating. Just export and save once in a while.

My only beef with Evernote really is the relatively ugly web UI.

[Disclosures: I have no relationship with Evernote aside from the two premium subscriptions I pay for]

If you use a desktop client, all your stuff is stored on the client machine. So AFAIK you should have a full backup on every non-portable device.

Uh, I don't think you need to worry so much any more:

  http://androidheadlines.com/2010/12/evernote-for-android-updated-making-800000month-revenue.html

I believe this was discussed here just the other day.

We all get the incoherent client/customer emails about wanting feature XYZ yesterday.

It's wonderful to hear that they had users, or at least a user that loved their service and was willing to tell them.