Am I the only one who had never heard of 37signals before?
They made basecamp, and write articles about how awesome they are.
What's basecamp?
37signals becomes Basecamp
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#33It still escapes me why this recent trend of naming companies with the names of products "for brand recognition" (the other obvious example is 10gen to become MongoDB Inc.) It would be interesting to see other companies do that in the past: - "Microsoft is going to become Windows Inc" - "Apple Computers will be known from now on as iPod Ltd" - "The new name of the company will be Air Jordan & Co. Nike no more!"
> "Apple Computers will be known from now on as iPod Ltd"
Or "Newton Handheld".
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#34This smells like they are going to try to pull a Atlassian.
And they will also go take VC money ... Going to be fun to watch :)
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#35It still escapes me why this recent trend of naming companies with the names of products "for brand recognition" (the other obvious example is 10gen to become MongoDB Inc.) It would be interesting to see other companies do that in the past: - "Microsoft is going to become Windows Inc" - "Apple Computers will be known from now on as iPod Ltd" - "The new name of the company will be Air Jordan & Co. Nike no more!"
Bloomberg was once called "Innovative Market Systems". The customers called BBG terminal as Bloomberg from the start. Hence the renaming. (source: wikipedia).
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#36People, please watch these few videos to genuinely understand what 37Signal guys (David and Jason) stand for before having a say.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XD2kNopsUs&list=PLuBTPnEIr6J...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzERXJgi5vQ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPrvnlvnu-k
and yea, don't forget https://twitter.com/shitmydadsays/status/10390379840929792
Re: 37signals becomes Basecamp
#37This smells like they are going to try to pull a Atlassian. And they will also go take VC money ... Going to be fun to watch :)
what's pulling an Atlassian?
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, as one of the "pioneers" of the SaaS model, and a highly successful bootstrapped startup for 10+ years, I would have to say... yes, I would imagine you are one of very few people in this community who would have never heard of 37signals.
How can you be a "startup" for 10 years? Will they ever stop being a "startup"?
I suppose even Yahoo and Google were "startups" at one time. 37signals probably kept the moniker longer than other businesses because they were profitable early, and they didn't need or want to grow fast for growth's sake.
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#39I was wondering from the headline if there was a merger... And from reading the post, it downed to me: I am one of.those that never realized the Basecamp 37signals connection, and I do read their blog!
To me 37signals was that webdev shop that made Rails and had a cool blog, I never connected them to any of their products Oo
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#40is it just me or they are saying 'in other words' that only basecamp succeeded and most other products failed ?
otherwise why not just bring in more devs instead of focusing on one product.