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Posterous (YC S08) raises ~4.4M from Redpoint, Trinity, and angels

106 points by pmjordan 17y ago

aviraj 17y ago
WIN
prosa 17y ago
Who says email is dead? Congrats!
arasakik 17y ago
w00t! Congrats guys!
vladev 17y ago
How does Posterous make money?
- rebelvc 17y ago
  It is such a cool service that VCs will keep it free forever!
  - deleted 17y ago
    [deleted]
    - hackoder 17y ago
      I think you missed the sarcasm there...
- jackowayed 17y ago
  They're starting to make some from sites for corporations, but the only one I know of is this: http://ncaa.cocacolazero.com/ http://ncaa.cocacolazero.com/ http://blog.posterous.com/advertising-agency-crispin-porter-bogusky-cre http://blog.posterous.com/advertising-agency-crispin-porter-... There was a TechCrunch story that referred to it as "jumping on the revenue wagon", so they're definitely getting money out of it, but it was written by Daniel Brusilovsky, the 17-year-old intern that extorted startups, and they deleted all of his articles when they terminated him. Edit: Google cache of the TechCrunch article: http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:bi6GJIQbFY0J:www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/18/posterous-revenue-coca-cola/+posterous+jumps+on+the+revenue+wagon+site:techcrunch.com&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:bi6GJIQbFY0J:www.techcr...
pkrumins 17y ago
I'm trying posterous right now for the first time. First impressions: * It got the possessive of my name, Peteris, wrong. If the name ends in -is (or -us), the possessive is Peteris’ not "Peteris’s posterous". (Rule 1 from "The Elements of Style".) * I am not sure why it needed me to validate my email, if I already sent the first mail from my mail and then signed up via the URL in the mail that came back. But it wasn't difficult so ok. * Regging was really quick. Quickest I have ever had. * Had a dot in the first post's title, it got deleted in the URL. Would have liked if it was rather replaced by a dash. I like it overall. I am not going to use it actively as I already have a blog but I would if I hadn't as it gets you blogging in no time.
- _delirium 17y ago
  The possessive thing actually varies according to stylebooks. The Chicago Manual of Style says to use 's in this circumstance (doesn't fall into one of its exceptions for when to omit the 2nd s), and the MLA Handbook says to always use 's for possessives of singular nouns.
  - pkrumins 17y ago
    Oh, I see. Didn't know that.
  - die_sekte 17y ago
    And the Oxford Guide to Plain English (which I recommend) says that both are correct.
- jacoblyles 17y ago
  My biggest beef with Posterous's design is that they direct me to their front page too often. When I'm logged in, just take me to my blogs. How many times have I ever seen the front page of blogger?
  - rantfoil 17y ago
    I hear you. We've got some cool concepts on a dashboard coming... we literally just grew the team by 50% people (2 great engineers) in the last couple of weeks, so we hope to be putting out a lot more good stuff for you.
mixergyNOTES 17y ago
Notes On Posterous Founder http://mixergynotes.com/sachin-agarwal-posterous/ http://mixergynotes.com/sachin-agarwal-posterous/
gaborcselle 17y ago
I love Posterous and post something there every day. Huge congrats!
gtt 17y ago
Why do they need such money?
- johnl 17y ago
  Build more stuff, Marketing, Back office support. Poking around with what you could do with email would be constructive. They nailed down email to blogs going so how about the other way around. For example, I'm starting to get a lot of magazines sent to me by email and I want them somewhere else so how about picking them up from email and placed to a magazine folder on the desktop automatically. Click on the magazine folder object sends you to the article.
  - aswanson 17y ago
    Excellent idea. Would love that feature for the tons of email magazines I subscribe to.
epi0Bauqu 17y ago
Congrats! My interview with Garry Tan (founder) from three days ago: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/03/garry-tan-on-getting-traction.html http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/03/garry-tan-on-get... I'm interviewing Satish Dharmaraj (lead investor) on Monday. These interviews are on getting traction.
nimrody 17y ago
At first I was very skeptical. Who needs another blogging platform (tumblr works fine, thank you). But now that I'm on the road, Posterous does have one big advantage: It works offline too. I use Mail.app to write and when I finally get a reliable connection -- it automatically uploads the new post. Great work. Thanks guys!
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zaveri 17y ago
Congrats! Amazing how they continue to crank out new features
nlwhittemore 17y ago
Huge congrats to the Posterous team. I'm a total convert after I started to use posterous to keep track of Startup related news in the Mission District in SF. Absolutely love the simplicity of the experience and can't wait to see what's next.

106 points by pmjordan 17y ago

aviraj 17y ago

WIN

prosa 17y ago

Who says email is dead? Congrats!

arasakik 17y ago

w00t! Congrats guys!

vladev 17y ago

How does Posterous make money?

rebelvc 17y ago
It is such a cool service that VCs will keep it free forever!
- deleted 17y ago
  [deleted]
  - hackoder 17y ago
    I think you missed the sarcasm there...
jackowayed 17y ago
They're starting to make some from sites for corporations, but the only one I know of is this: http://ncaa.cocacolazero.com/ http://ncaa.cocacolazero.com/ http://blog.posterous.com/advertising-agency-crispin-porter-bogusky-cre http://blog.posterous.com/advertising-agency-crispin-porter-... There was a TechCrunch story that referred to it as "jumping on the revenue wagon", so they're definitely getting money out of it, but it was written by Daniel Brusilovsky, the 17-year-old intern that extorted startups, and they deleted all of his articles when they terminated him. Edit: Google cache of the TechCrunch article: http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:bi6GJIQbFY0J:www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/18/posterous-revenue-coca-cola/+posterous+jumps+on+the+revenue+wagon+site:techcrunch.com&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:bi6GJIQbFY0J:www.techcr...

pkrumins 17y ago

I'm trying posterous right now for the first time. First impressions: * It got the possessive of my name, Peteris, wrong. If the name ends in -is (or -us), the possessive is Peteris’ not "Peteris’s posterous". (Rule 1 from "The Elements of Style".) * I am not sure why it needed me to validate my email, if I already sent the first mail from my mail and then signed up via the URL in the mail that came back. But it wasn't difficult so ok. * Regging was really quick. Quickest I have ever had. * Had a dot in the first post's title, it got deleted in the URL. Would have liked if it was rather replaced by a dash. I like it overall. I am not going to use it actively as I already have a blog but I would if I hadn't as it gets you blogging in no time.

_delirium 17y ago
The possessive thing actually varies according to stylebooks. The Chicago Manual of Style says to use 's in this circumstance (doesn't fall into one of its exceptions for when to omit the 2nd s), and the MLA Handbook says to always use 's for possessives of singular nouns.
- pkrumins 17y ago
  Oh, I see. Didn't know that.
- die_sekte 17y ago
  And the Oxford Guide to Plain English (which I recommend) says that both are correct.
jacoblyles 17y ago
My biggest beef with Posterous's design is that they direct me to their front page too often. When I'm logged in, just take me to my blogs. How many times have I ever seen the front page of blogger?
- rantfoil 17y ago
  I hear you. We've got some cool concepts on a dashboard coming... we literally just grew the team by 50% people (2 great engineers) in the last couple of weeks, so we hope to be putting out a lot more good stuff for you.

mixergyNOTES 17y ago

Notes On Posterous Founder http://mixergynotes.com/sachin-agarwal-posterous/ http://mixergynotes.com/sachin-agarwal-posterous/

gaborcselle 17y ago

I love Posterous and post something there every day. Huge congrats!

gtt 17y ago

Why do they need such money?

johnl 17y ago
Build more stuff, Marketing, Back office support. Poking around with what you could do with email would be constructive. They nailed down email to blogs going so how about the other way around. For example, I'm starting to get a lot of magazines sent to me by email and I want them somewhere else so how about picking them up from email and placed to a magazine folder on the desktop automatically. Click on the magazine folder object sends you to the article.
- aswanson 17y ago
  Excellent idea. Would love that feature for the tons of email magazines I subscribe to.

epi0Bauqu 17y ago

Congrats! My interview with Garry Tan (founder) from three days ago: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/03/garry-tan-on-getting-traction.html http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/03/garry-tan-on-get... I'm interviewing Satish Dharmaraj (lead investor) on Monday. These interviews are on getting traction.

nimrody 17y ago

At first I was very skeptical. Who needs another blogging platform (tumblr works fine, thank you). But now that I'm on the road, Posterous does have one big advantage: It works offline too. I use Mail.app to write and when I finally get a reliable connection -- it automatically uploads the new post. Great work. Thanks guys!

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zaveri 17y ago

Congrats! Amazing how they continue to crank out new features

nlwhittemore 17y ago

Huge congrats to the Posterous team. I'm a total convert after I started to use posterous to keep track of Startup related news in the Mission District in SF. Absolutely love the simplicity of the experience and can't wait to see what's next.