Family man, seeker and learner. Revealing my inner-poet. 2X Founder: Conversio (acquired by Campaign Monitor) + WooCommerce (acquired by Automattic). Ex-Rockstar.
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Family man, seeker and learner. Revealing my inner-poet. 2X Founder: Conversio (acquired by Campaign Monitor) + WooCommerce (acquired by Automattic). Ex-Rockstar.
AirBnB just announced a whopping new funding deal worth $112 million. [http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/07/25/airbnb-from-y-combinator-to-112m-funding-in-three-years/] Sheesh. What do you do with $112 million? I come from a bootstrapped background and I've never been close to seeing anything like that kind of money in my own
Interesting that Y Combinator focuses much of their investment decisions on the type of people behind the startups and not necessarily on the startup or the idea itself. So if I'm correct, I should be able to take any above-average idea to Y Combinator and based on my success with