Is that considered angel, or VC money?
VC
you'd be surprised. the lawyers consider it a series a, but journalists consider it angel
Weebly, A YC company, closes a $650k Investment
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Re: Weebly, A YC company, closes a $650k Investment
#12One sure thing is that YC invests in companies that enables the average Joes (like me) to do things the simple way. It has to be dead simple to use (well I am sure there a few exceptions). I am not sure I would use Weebly, but it sure can help several people with little technical background. Does anyone knows if Weebly lets you use a custom URL?
Weebly lets you use a custom URL and you can download your site as a zip archive.
Re: Weebly, A YC company, closes a $650k Investment
#13Seriously now, is this a business? Seems more like a project to me.
It seems to me that Weebly has a long term strategy. They are trying to build a good user base. As they improve their service those non-technical users will learn how to build more complex websites and eventually some applications. It is sort of like starting a Kinder_garden with the goals of adding a Grade each year so your students won't have to look for another school.
That doesn't have anything to do with them making money. I don't think their monetization path is very important because best-in-breed web applications don't have a problem getting acquired.
If Weebly was a Web 1.0 company, the founders would be billionaires already.
Re: Weebly, A YC company, closes a $650k Investment
#14Is this like Infogami 2.0?
Perhaps Viaweb 2.0
Re: Weebly, A YC company, closes a $650k Investment
#15What Weebly Could Do: Make their editor a drop-in / turn-key service for other sites to use as their Custom Profile Editor for users's profile pages.
Co-brand that biatch and call it a day.
Re: Weebly, A YC company, closes a $650k Investment
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems to me that Weebly has a long term strategy. They are trying to build a good user base. As they improve their service those non-technical users will learn how to build more complex websites and eventually some applications. It is sort of like starting a Kinder_garden with the goals of adding a Grade each year so your students won't have to look for another school.
That doesn't have anything to do with them making money. I don't think their monetization path is very important because best-in-breed web applications don't have a problem getting acquired. If Weebly was a Web 1.0 company, the founders would be billionaires already.
"If Weebly was a Web 1.0 company, the founders would be billionaires already."
Poor logic.
Re: Weebly, A YC company, closes a $650k Investment
#17I just created a blog for my upcoming web site!
They've REALLY improved since the last time I looked. I thought back in March that they really needed to have a blog, and they have it! Here's my site:
ratemyapp.weebly.com
Re: Weebly, A YC company, closes a $650k Investment
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
That doesn't have anything to do with them making money. I don't think their monetization path is very important because best-in-breed web applications don't have a problem getting acquired. If Weebly was a Web 1.0 company, the founders would be billionaires already.
"If Weebly was a Web 1.0 company, the founders would be billionaires already." Poor logic.
Very poor logic. Logic doesn't prevail at Y-Combinator.