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Investors? What do you think this is… Twitter?
- strebel 16y agowoot ;)
- warkaiser 16y agoKeep it up!
- kovar 16y agoThe 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....
- strebel 16y agoLean 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.
- peteysd 16y agoThere is humor embedded all over the site. I especially love the "el Pollo Diablo" plan.
- carlhancock 16y agoWe 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
- justinchen 16y agoSame here (boostrapped, profitable). It's a great feeling, but it's annoying that people still ask if we're looking for funding.
- carlhancock 16y agoWe 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.
- beaufrusetta 16y agoThe devil chicken plan + the look of the site + Josh's dashing good looks... ...win! haha
- Tycho 16y agoseems to be a lot of new aliases making their debut in this thread
- acangiano 16y agocarlhancock and beaufrusetta are very likely to be sockpuppets: - Accounts created less than an hour ago - Only 1 comment, very positive about the company - Both use "win" or variations of it EDIT: They aren't sockpuppets, but rather supportive friends of the startup's founder.
- strebel 16y agoor could they be http://twitter.com/carlhancock http://twitter.com/carlhancock and http://twitter.com/beaufrusetta http://twitter.com/beaufrusetta whom are supportive friends?
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- aspir 16y agoIf 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.
- jambo 16y agoI think "winning" was a call out to the Charlie Sheen meme.
- getsat 16y ago#winning, after some research, appears to be related to Charlie Sheen's newfound popularity on Twitter: http://twitter.com/charliesheen http://twitter.com/charliesheen
- carlhancock 16y agoSock 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.
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- kmfrk 16y agoI 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.
- aspir 16y agoThat's why I posted it to HN. I'm venting my appreciation for the boldness.