Investing in GitHub
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Investing in GitHub
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#2http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4220353 for discussion
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#3The following isn't meant to harm or critizise anyone, but isn't such kind of outside investment more about changing your now worthy company stack against some more handy dollar notes? If a company just needs cash for profitable ideas they could get a loan, right? So if that's the case why would people say differently in their blog?
Well, anyway I'm happy that Github is doing fine.
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#4Congrats GH! Sounds like a good match. Excited to see how it plays out.
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#5"Why? Because we want to be better."
This is the least transparent reasoning I've seen in a long time.
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#6"Why? Because we want to be better." This is the least transparent reasoning I've seen in a long time.
Yes, they basically don't say what they're going to spend the money on.
But it may have been (they hint at this) that they didn't need or want the funding so much as to have AH invested in the company. Taking their investment may create something of a partnership and gives them access to AH's advice/rolodex and encourages future support. It also gives them a concrete valuation to cite down the road.
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#7The following isn't meant to harm or critizise anyone, but isn't such kind of outside investment more about changing your now worthy company stack against some more handy dollar notes? If a company just needs cash for profitable ideas they could get a loan, right? So if that's the case why would people say differently in their blog? Well, anyway I'm happy that Github is doing fine.
They must have plans to venture out into unproven territory that includes risk to their core business that would make a bank balk at approving the loan.
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#8Between parse, trigger.io, trello, and github, it seems there's more shovel-selling going on than actual gold-digging.
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#9Between parse, trigger.io, trello, and github, it seems there's more shovel-selling going on than actual gold-digging.
I think there's a pretty straight-forward reason for this. If you've worked as a software developer for 10 years, you know what business domain you know really well? Software development. That makes it a natural place to start in looking for ideas to build a business.
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#10Between parse, trigger.io, trello, and github, it seems there's more shovel-selling going on than actual gold-digging.
Gonna go with the idea that the long tail is really quite long and invisible here.
I imagine github as an iceburg. Sure, I see things like bootstrap with XXXk followers and jquery on there. Big projects! Big names! Big! Big! Big!
But what about what I don't see? How many thousands of users have private accounts? How many thousands of businesses have private github repos? I don't really know. It's a smart bet that every time somebody sees all the prestige of the big name projects, they think "Hmmm, this is really working for them; Could it work so well for me/my project/my startup/ my enterprise? I hope I can make this private."
I am just saying, sure there is a lot of shovel selling going on. But just because you can't see others digging, doesn't mean they aren't out there.