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SurveyMonkey to buy Wufoo (YC W06) for $35m

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Re: SurveyMonkey to buy Wufoo (YC W06) for $35m

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That's awesome news. Congratulations to the Wufoo team -- it is well deserved. (Their product is awesome.)

It is also great news for SaaS startup generally, since Wufoo is a little of column A and a little of column B on the typical grow via revenues VS get investment and grow massively dichotomy. That's a data point in the favor of at least some investors making investments in companies which have a projected trajectory where massive success results in a company on the scale of 37Signals/FogCreek/Wufoo rather than resulting in a company on the scale of Zynga/Groupon. $35 million won't exactly have VCs salivating but, oh well, if they don't invest they don't get a vote -- the angels and employees of Wufoo have to be happy like clams at this outcome.

Re: SurveyMonkey to buy Wufoo (YC W06) for $35m

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Link to original article, without blogspam: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2481610

Posting news on your own, professional blog is "spam" now?

If your blog post adds literally no value whatsoever and is on a blog that is almost 100% repost spam, yes.

Re: SurveyMonkey to buy Wufoo (YC W06) for $35m

#27

Any idea how many employees Wufoo has? And how many are engineers/designers?

12 based on the photo on this page:

http://wufoo.com/2011/04/25/wufoo-surveymonkey-acquisition/

My guess is 4-6 do customer support, and the rest do engineering / design.

Re: SurveyMonkey to buy Wufoo (YC W06) for $35m

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I don't get it; where did surveymonkey found $35m? is there so much money to make in online surveys?

There is a ton of money in online surveys. Advertisers spend a lot on surveys.

what do you mean "a lot"? a company which invests $100k / month in adwords should be expected to spend how much in online surveys?
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