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Do one thing that is useful, try to do it very well, have paying happy customers ASAP: you are building a good business, very well deserved. More startups shou

by antirez 14y ago

Do one thing that is useful, try to do it very well, have paying happy customers ASAP: you are building a good business, very well deserved. More startups should do business to business IMHO.

mindcrime 14y ago
More startups should do business to business IMHO. Agreed. B2B is the space we're playing in at Fogbeam. Specifically, Open Source Enterprise Software at the intersection of Knowledge Management, Collaboration and BPM. We think most "enterprise social software" is a fairly useless replacement for / complement to, email. We're aiming for actually integrating "social" software into workflows and processes in a way that adds real value. Maybe it's just me, but I honestly find consumer facing apps kinda boring. I see the enterprise space as having more interesting challenges to solve and fun problems to deal with, as opposed to creating the next "share pictures of cats doing silly stuff" site. :-) Anyway, it's interesting to see this news, as we're not trying to raise money right now; but I was talking to somebody from a16z just yesterday and said "if we were trying to raise, we'd probably be trying to talk to you guys". They seem more specifically interested in the enterprise space than any other VC firm I'm familiar with. Unfortunately we're on the East Coast (RTP, NC), and the a16z partner said that, while they are open to doing deals here, they would probably only do a follow-on round after local VCs. Which, to be fair, I can totally understand that. That said, our hope is that we can bootstrap to profitability without ever taking outside money at all, but that may or may not prove to be realistic.
DanielRibeiro 14y ago
Thanks for the support Antirez. We have still have a many things do to help our customers even more. Also, thanks for you work on Redis and your essays (such as this one[1]). These are helping many startups reach needed scalability and fault tolerance. [1] http://antirez.com/news/36 http://antirez.com/news/36

by antirez 14y ago

Do one thing that is useful, try to do it very well, have paying happy customers ASAP: you are building a good business, very well deserved. More startups should do business to business IMHO.

mindcrime 14y ago

More startups should do business to business IMHO. Agreed. B2B is the space we're playing in at Fogbeam. Specifically, Open Source Enterprise Software at the intersection of Knowledge Management, Collaboration and BPM. We think most "enterprise social software" is a fairly useless replacement for / complement to, email. We're aiming for actually integrating "social" software into workflows and processes in a way that adds real value. Maybe it's just me, but I honestly find consumer facing apps kinda boring. I see the enterprise space as having more interesting challenges to solve and fun problems to deal with, as opposed to creating the next "share pictures of cats doing silly stuff" site. :-) Anyway, it's interesting to see this news, as we're not trying to raise money right now; but I was talking to somebody from a16z just yesterday and said "if we were trying to raise, we'd probably be trying to talk to you guys". They seem more specifically interested in the enterprise space than any other VC firm I'm familiar with. Unfortunately we're on the East Coast (RTP, NC), and the a16z partner said that, while they are open to doing deals here, they would probably only do a follow-on round after local VCs. Which, to be fair, I can totally understand that. That said, our hope is that we can bootstrap to profitability without ever taking outside money at all, but that may or may not prove to be realistic.

DanielRibeiro 14y ago

Thanks for the support Antirez. We have still have a many things do to help our customers even more. Also, thanks for you work on Redis and your essays (such as this one[1]). These are helping many startups reach needed scalability and fault tolerance. [1] http://antirez.com/news/36 http://antirez.com/news/36