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Plivo (YC S12) raises 1.75 million from Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, others

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Re: Plivo (YC S12) raises 1.75 million from Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, others

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Post by bevenky »

Robdr wrote: post #15

What is the main difference from Twilio? In my perception both services are fairly similar, with Twilio having the first-mover benefits.

The features in our platform. Our customers who come from other platforms tell us that it is about the depth of features and the simplicity of our APIs.

We allow you to bring your own carrier services. This is huge for enterprises and service providers.

Our ability to register SIP devices - actually connect your IP phone or soft client

Our support team continues to get rave reviews from our customers…

Re: Plivo (YC S12) raises 1.75 million from Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, others

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Post by DanielRibeiro »

bevenky wrote: post #21
Robdr wrote: post #15

What is the main difference from Twilio? In my perception both services are fairly similar, with Twilio having the first-mover benefits.

The features in our platform. Our customers who come from other platforms tell us that it is about the depth of features and the simplicity of our APIs. We allow you to bring your own carrier services. This is huge for enterprises and service providers. Our ability to register SIP devices - actually connect your IP phone or soft client Our support team continues to get rave reviews from our customers…

Can you say something about your availability numbers? Twillio is sometimes unavailable, something we notice when running a high availability service that uses them.

Re: Plivo (YC S12) raises 1.75 million from Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, others

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Post by bevenky »

DanielRibeiro wrote: post #22
bevenky wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The features in our platform. Our customers who come from other platforms tell us that it is about the depth of features and the simplicity of our APIs. We allow you to bring your own carrier services. This is huge for enterprises and service providers. Our ability to register SIP devices - actually connect your IP phone or soft client Our support team continues to get rave reviews from our customers…

Can you say something about your availability numbers? Twillio is sometimes unavailable, something we notice when running a high availability service that uses them.

We are very serious about our availability numbers. Quite a few large Enterprise customers who use us, completely depend on us for their telephony infrastructure.

Feel free to email us at hello@plivo.com and we can help you with more specific details.

Re: Plivo (YC S12) raises 1.75 million from Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, others

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Post by sharkweek »

nlh wrote: post #12

Congrats guys! Seems like a cool platform. Question: I noticed the press release on MarketWire is nicely packed with keyword-rich links (clever SEO work!). Does this get distribution on sites beyond MarketWire, and if so, do the links remain? Just curious how effective this sort of strategy is for link-building :)

If it's getting scraped heavily and published elsewhere, Google will most likely not pass PageRank for any links other than the original once it's recognized as duplicate content on multiple pages.

In fact, in the MarketWire article, having a bunch of keyword-rich text all pointing at the same page will likely have little SEO value, as diminishing returns hits really quickly in a case like this.

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