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How did they come up with 212 million valuation? Genuinely interested to know.
Also: revenue, future growth, and intangibles (brand, goodwill, etc.)
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Nothing last forever. Eventually all the "startups that you love" will either close their door or be acquired and I think people should expect that since day 1.
Why are these the only 2 outcomes? Why not grow a business?
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Since people seem to dislike my comment, I will explain my point. "A home run" means "ultimate success", you can not expect to do any better than that. Since pg has openly stated that he is looking for the next Google/Facebook type company, 212 million is not "a home run". Its still pretty good!
I think the phrase you are looking for is "grand slam."
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Gotta agree with this assessment. I've found deployment to Heroku whilst tinkering with side projects fantastic, whilst Salesforce is the bane of my life in the day job. And whilst they have the in-house infrastructure to actually reduce Heroku prices, the Salesforce focus on the enterprise market hints that they're more likely to raise them. Congratulations to the Heroku team though. Is it DropBox's turn next?
>Congratulations to the Heroku team though. Is it DropBox's turn next? Shut up before you jinx us all.
I wonder if I should start building Heroku 2 now...
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Nothing last forever. Eventually all the "startups that you love" will either close their door or be acquired and I think people should expect that since day 1.
Why are these the only 2 outcomes? Why not grow a business?
I've honestly never understood why startups want to be acquired (besides the monetary gain for individual employees). Doesn't acquisition often destroy or dilute the very successes they've worked so hard to build? (I worked for an acquisitive company that worsened nearly every product/company it acquired.) Why not just focus on making your business better? Heroku will now be subject to all kinds of pressures and asin…
This is great news for Heroku and YC (congratulations folks!). That said, does anyone have any insights on why exactly SalesForce would buy Heroku? What is the business rationale? "This is Salesforce’s fifth acquisition this year. Earlier purchases include Activa Live, Sitemasher and Jigsaw. Salesforce.com also spent $170 million to fully acquire its Japanese subsidiary, Salesforce Japan." Anyone see a pattern? I don…
One can make a pretty good case that Heroku and the like is where all web development is headed pretty soon. One thing that can be gleaned from the history of languages and computing platforms is that once computing performance started skyrocketing, it has been the easiest languages and platforms that have been winning. And RoR is very easy and Heroku is a very easy way to deploy and host RoR. If Heroku becomes the p…
It's more like "VC funded companies throw money at hosting at the moment".
Wow- congrats. Great bunch of founders who totally deserve this. I think this is the biggest YC exit, no?
Wow- congrats. Great bunch of founders who totally deserve this. I think this is the biggest YC exit, no?
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l...
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Time to start keeping an eye on other hosting solutions. I'm love Heroku and I host a decent number of paying applications on it, but I'm afraid that when the original people will start leaving we'll be left with just another big corporation.
if you're a fan of python, keep your eye on djangy. those guys are sharp.
Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of DjangoZoom.