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37signals worth $100 billion?
Start time: 0:37
The story behind the mock press release claiming 37signals is worth $100 billion. The press should be more critical in covering valuation stories. Eyeballs aren’t the only thing that matter.
The valuation dance
Start time: 8:45
Was the press release a shot at Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube? Why was the sale of Mint to Intuit disappointing? Where will the next great generation of companies come from if they keep selling early? Also, VC money is a time bomb.
Mojito Island is a mirage
Start time: 15:23
The idea of selling a company for a big pot of money and living happily ever after doesn’t actually happen. People who make great companies are inherently driven and don’t want to live a life of leisure. If you’re succeeding on something now, stick with it. Otherwise, you may wind up looking backwards “for the love of the game.”
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Anonymous Coward
on 17 Nov 09Matt Linderman sounds like a radio broadcaster.
I’m not certain if that either a good or bad thing
Anonymous Coward
on 17 Nov 09DHH and Jason
Why so much hate for VC in the podcast?
Isn’t Bezos a VC investor in 37signals.
Pies
on 17 Nov 09Your podcast still doesn’t work in Google Reader because the feed is incorrect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_enclosure
Pies
on 17 Nov 09Very good podcast, thank you.
Des
on 18 Nov 09Guys – I’m really enjoying these podcasts- thanks for taking the time to do them.
One cool thing would be if, when re-capping the blog posts, you could answer a hand picked set of questions from the comments, although that might take a lot of the fun out of it for you.
Anyways, great stuff, cheers,
Des
Anol Bhattacharya
on 18 Nov 09The iTunes subscription is only for US? Why?
Kevin Holesh
on 18 Nov 09I’m really enjoying your podcast so far. Keep up the great work!
Agreed, Matt does actually sound like a radio broadcaster.
Antti Akonniemi
on 18 Nov 09Anol, iTunes subscription works great at least in Finland.
Theo
on 18 Nov 09What kind of flash player do you guys use for the podcasts?
The UI is pretty slick.
Mika Schiller
on 18 Nov 09Anonymous Coward, there’s a big difference between accepting a small VC investment and basing your entire business strategy on VCs. In the first one, you at least have some kind of a business model. As DHH and JF mention, Google and Apple both took one round of VC seed money but because they were actually making money they didn’t depend on it.
ML
on 18 Nov 09@Pies: The feed items do include enclosure tags. And someone else said, “I listened to the podcast in Google reader yesterday.” Hmm.
BS
on 19 Nov 09I did like it when Jason referred to Tech Crunch as a “ridiculous site” and I could not agree more!!! Tech Crunch seems to mostly cover VC funded start ups that only have eye balls and no real revenue generating power. Plus Arrington is sort of an idiot.
Greg
on 19 Nov 09In related news, Monday morning quarterbacking is fun.
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