Does anyone know if ZumoDrive plans to offer Linux support in the future? I have a huge flac library I'd love to be able to stream to my lower storage laptop. Heck, I'd store a ton of stuff in the cloud.
Ask YC: YC (Dropbox) vs YC (ZumoDrive)?
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And given the current funding climate, it would be great for such companies to merge.
Why? Don't you think the transition period would dramatically hurt productivity? What about clashing cultures? M&A usually fails.
Yet a lot of YC companies will end up getting acquired.
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Why? Don't you think the transition period would dramatically hurt productivity? What about clashing cultures? M&A usually fails.
M&A usually fails. Yet a lot of YC companies will end up getting acquired.
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M&A usually fails. Yet a lot of YC companies will end up getting acquired.
A big company can accept that some of its acquisitions won't work out well. Small companies aren't as strong.
Given this, there is no reason startups should avoid merging simply because it "usually fails" (as the post above was suggesting)... In fact, it's a risk in the same league as doing a startup in the first place.
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Hmmm, I'd like to see a formal comparison of the two. I haven't used zumodrive but I'm soooooo impressed with Dropbox. It's amazing. I know this is against the grain, but Dropbox replaced SVN for our development projects. It's a lot easier for designers to use... SVN is too tedious.
I haven't used zumodrive but I'm soooooo impressed with Dropbox. One fundamental difference is that Dropbox syncs things between drives and cloud. Zumodrive only uses your local machine as cache. The difference is when you have 20 gigs in the service, a Zumodrive doesn't actually use up any of your HD space. On the other hand, you don't have to be connected to the internet to see/edit your Dropbox files, only to sync…
Re: Ask YC: YC (Dropbox) vs YC (ZumoDrive)?
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
And given the current funding climate, it would be great for such companies to merge.
Why? Don't you think the transition period would dramatically hurt productivity? What about clashing cultures? M&A usually fails.
Re: Ask YC: YC (Dropbox) vs YC (ZumoDrive)?
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
A big company can accept that some of its acquisitions won't work out well. Small companies aren't as strong.
So what you're saying is that when it works, the reward is enough to offset the failures. Given this, there is no reason startups should avoid merging simply because it "usually fails" (as the post above was suggesting)... In fact, it's a risk in the same league as doing a startup in the first place.
Re: Ask YC: YC (Dropbox) vs YC (ZumoDrive)?
#29ZumoDrive turned me off instantly with their horrible Mac offering. I like the idea, but Dropbox actually has a real nice client on Mac.
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#30I would love to see ZumoDrive support Linux. I've recently adopted Linux pretty much full time, and the Dropbox client for it is great; it really offers seamless integration. Does anyone know if ZumoDrive plans to offer Linux support in the future? I have a huge flac library I'd love to be able to stream to my lower storage laptop. Heck, I'd store a ton of stuff in the cloud.