I don't know, it feels like they are telling people who recognize the quality and potential of the service and who want to support them to go fuck themselves.
What about the people who want to be your voluntary missionaries and spread the word and love? Give them something to vent their appreciation with.
Even 37signals realized that Jeff Bezos had something to offer them and let him invest.
I'm not calling hubris as much as saying that there are some human resources to be used for both parties' benefit.
The longer we've gone without investors, the easier it is to continue doing so, and the more likely it is that we can post a page similar to this one....
Lean becomes a lifestyle after a while. Best decision (really had no other options) we made was to bootstrap. Owning 100% of profits has it's perks as well.
We are in the same boat. Our competitors have investors, what do we have instead? Profit, more of it every month and no investors to answer to. #winning
We actually haven't been approached about funding by anyone, which is ironic considering we are actually very profitable. But then again, investors seem to love unprofitable investments for some reason. But that is a good thing. Being bootstrapped means more money in my pocket and nobody to answer to except my business partners, not an outside investor.
Sock puppet? Hardly. I just never bothered posting here before. This is my real name and i'm one of the co-founders of a successful 100% bootstrapped and profitable company that produces commercial plugins for WordPress.
I posted to show support for Page.ly because I know Josh and Co. at Page.ly bust their ass on a daily basis running their business.
The #winning was a lame reference to Charlie Sheen.
If it helps, I can assure you that I found this link/company organically. I was doing market research on the wordpress-based business niche for a client and found these guys.
Come on now. I am the founder of page.ly (if that was not clear) and what could be wrong with a little celebratory call out back to this community, which does not seem to be all that welcoming all of sudden.
A 1000 new visits over an hour or so from hackernews was kind of novel for us.
What about the people who want to be your voluntary missionaries and spread the word and love? Give them something to vent their appreciation with.
Even 37signals realized that Jeff Bezos had something to offer them and let him invest.
I'm not calling hubris as much as saying that there are some human resources to be used for both parties' benefit.