Npm Raises $2.6M Seed Round
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Npm Raises $2.6M Seed Round
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#2npm install funding
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#3Why npm needs funding? ($2.6M)
They want to hire team or it's for...?
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#4Why npm needs funding? ($2.6M) They want to hire team or it's for...?
For hosting expenses, at least. The site has been down from time to time, and the cost to companies because of downtime is pretty large.
Maybe they could make npm reliable for Windows with that money too.
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#5Why npm needs funding? ($2.6M) They want to hire team or it's for...?
What's the exit going to be? Who are they going to sell to? What revenues are they going to bring in? We're talking VC money, not a grant.
Did they just hand over the keys to the node community to someone else?
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#6Why npm needs funding? ($2.6M) They want to hire team or it's for...?
I believe their intention is to turn NPM into a business offering enterprise support for privately hosted mirrors.
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#7I understand the fact that it can be fairly expensive to run a large, popular module site such as npm and rubygems. What I'm curious about is how they intend to monetize npm, and how it affect users, if it does. Typically, VCs hope to get a return on their investment.
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#8I understand the fact that it can be fairly expensive to run a large, popular module site such as npm and rubygems. What I'm curious about is how they intend to monetize npm, and how it affect users, if it does. Typically, VCs hope to get a return on their investment.
The messaging so far is that they don't intend for anything to change for typical users of npm, and that they'll make money with stuff like enterprise-level support. But I think it's still a bit in the air.
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#9Why npm needs funding? ($2.6M) They want to hire team or it's for...?
What's the exit going to be? Who are they going to sell to? What revenues are they going to bring in? We're talking VC money, not a grant. Did they just hand over the keys to the node community to someone else?
Money corrupts.
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#10NPM is one of the more interesting opportunities out there right now... And plenty of competition. Watch the throne.