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Jeez. The offer must have been really attractive.. otherwise why would Squarespace need all that money? Don't say servers. Conversely, why would VC's throw in so much money into this business? I just can't see the exit strategy. Who can you name off top of your head that could potentially acquire them at a few multiples? I can't. [Edit] This is just a web design operation, only difference is that the customers get th…
Jeez. The offer must have been really attractive.. otherwise why would Squarespace need all that money? Don't say servers. Conversely, why would VC's throw in so much money into this business? I just can't see the exit strategy. Who can you name off top of your head that could potentially acquire them at a few multiples? I can't. [Edit] This is just a web design operation, only difference is that the customers get th…
Exits? Inuit paid $170M for Homestead in Nov. '07. I'm sure the acquisition climate is different now but I think there are enough potential fits around. Adobe comes to mind seeing as they need a better HTML(5) web solution. Not sure if that's a route they want to go, though.
Square space is a website building platform with included hosting.. it appears their going to charge $30/month for a plan that allow people to build sites that include the functionality of collect data (forms) $8/mo gives you 1 gb with 75gb bandwidth and you use their sub domain $14/mo give access to having up to "250 users" (email subscription?) and custom URL $20/mo , $30/mo and $50 really just up the futures to an…
Jeez. The offer must have been really attractive.. otherwise why would Squarespace need all that money? Don't say servers. Conversely, why would VC's throw in so much money into this business? I just can't see the exit strategy. Who can you name off top of your head that could potentially acquire them at a few multiples? I can't. [Edit] This is just a web design operation, only difference is that the customers get th…
It does seem like a lot of money ... but Automattic has raised over $30M for (primarily) WordPress. And SquareSpace is actually charging money. Exits? Inuit paid $170M for Homestead in Nov. '07. I'm sure the acquisition climate is different now but I think there are enough potential fits around. Adobe comes to mind seeing as they need a better HTML(5) web solution. Not sure if that's a route they want to go, though.
I can't help but wonder what their BHAG is for all this money. It seems like it's got to be an awfully big target.
I can't help but wonder what their BHAG is for all this money. It seems like it's got to be an awfully big target.
What does BHAG mean?
In short, I now pay SquareSpace $12/mo to look after hosting, a very attractive and useful CMS, some good looking templates, point-and-click CSS customisations, drag-and-drop layout, and built-in analytics. You could do the same with Wordpress (and, in fairness, customise it more) but SquareSpace wins if you value your time.
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It does seem like a lot of money ... but Automattic has raised over $30M for (primarily) WordPress. And SquareSpace is actually charging money. Exits? Inuit paid $170M for Homestead in Nov. '07. I'm sure the acquisition climate is different now but I think there are enough potential fits around. Adobe comes to mind seeing as they need a better HTML(5) web solution. Not sure if that's a route they want to go, though.
Rackspace? GoDaddy?
GoDaddy... now there's something.
I recently started up a new blog ( http://nextended.com for Sony NEX users) and searched around the available platforms. I've used blogger in the past but it's pretty clunky these days. I still use self-hosted Wordpress for my personal blog but I've always been annoyed by the post editor, less-than-simple customization and frequent security breaches. In short, I now pay SquareSpace $12/mo to look after hosting, a ver…
I don't want to manage entire websites on a client-basis anymore. Its one step from MSP IT (not like its a bad thing, I just like code).