After the Deadline: Acquired

#1

Post by karlsutt » Tue, Sep 08, 2009, 8:25 PM UTC

After the Deadline: Acquired
blog.afterthedeadline.com

Re: After the Deadline: Acquired

#2

Post by aditya » Tue, Sep 08, 2009, 8:34 PM UTC

Congrats raffi! (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=raffi) This is totally awesome news.

Re: After the Deadline: Acquired

#3

Post by sgrove » Tue, Sep 08, 2009, 8:38 PM UTC

Huge congratulations to Raphael. I had the chance to see a preview of his presentation, and I was impressed right away. The market is obviously hugely competitive (who really wants to take on MS, google, etc?), and those were the biggest questions I had at the time.

But this is a perfect combination of tech and opportunity. Again, well done Raphael!

Re: After the Deadline: Acquired

#4

Post by yan » Tue, Sep 08, 2009, 8:39 PM UTC

Congrats! Does this mean we'll get to see the source?

edit: Any details on the financials?

Re: After the Deadline: Acquired

#5

Post by donw » Tue, Sep 08, 2009, 8:41 PM UTC

Congratulations! It takes cast-iron balls the size of cantaloupes to make a product that competes against companies with six orders of magnitude more funding... and succeed.

Re: After the Deadline: Acquired

#6

Post by asorbus » Tue, Sep 08, 2009, 8:44 PM UTC

I was surprised to follow this link and see a familiar face. I recognize Raphael Mudge from when I competed in the Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (http://neccdc09.nssa.rit.edu/) where he was a member of the red team. I didn't have much time to get to know him personally, but I do remember him being a nice guy. Congrats, Raphael!

Re: After the Deadline: Acquired

#7

Post by edw519 » Tue, Sep 08, 2009, 8:51 PM UTC

Congratulations!

I loved the idea about the NY Times quiz. (I got it wrong). It's a little thing, but it may have been just the hook to catch the right fish.

I try to learn something from everything here. This was a great lesson that I hope to put to use myself someday.

Re: After the Deadline: Acquired

#8

Post by ujjwalg » Tue, Sep 08, 2009, 9:05 PM UTC

Finally, a story in which YC misjudged... :)

Congrats...

Re: After the Deadline: Acquired

#9

Post by zaidf » Tue, Sep 08, 2009, 9:14 PM UTC

ujjwalg wrote: post #8

Finally, a story in which YC misjudged... :) Congrats...

Misjudged? Not necessarily.

While getting acquired is cool for the founders, getting acquired so early is usually not in YC's interest and I doubt they'd have too much regret over (what is likely) a super-small acquisition.

Re: After the Deadline: Acquired

#10

Post by Kaizyn » Tue, Sep 08, 2009, 9:17 PM UTC

zaidf wrote: post #9

ujjwalg wrote: post #8

Finally, a story in which YC misjudged... :) Congrats...

Misjudged? Not necessarily. While getting acquired is cool for the founders, getting acquired so early is usually not in YC's interest and I doubt they'd have too much regret over (what is likely) a super-small acquisition.

YC may also suffer from an embarrassment of riches, where they have more good startups than they have resources to fund.