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So the gist is: SaaS taken VC funding? Do not touch them if you will rely on their service because they might suddenly disappear in an acquihire and you should
by rurounijones 12y ago
So the gist is:
SaaS taken VC funding? Do not touch them if you will rely on their service because they might suddenly disappear in an acquihire and you should have expected it, ingrate. [1]
it is Sound advice, although if everyone took it to heart none of these start-ups would succeed in the first place because no one would use them because of the expectation they will be gone shortly. [1]
Poisoning the well of goodwill for future start-ups.
[1] Unless you can get a contract for X months / years of service as detailed by patio above... I cannot remember this as an option by any of the SaaSs that feature on YC. They try to be low friction "Just put your credit card details in, pay monthly and ignore the elephant." They RELY on people ignoring the above.
- patio11 12y agoThere exist companies funded by YC which have enterprise pricing available. All of them will guarantee services being available for the entire contractual term, subject to the usual. (Contracts, paying shedloads of money, etc.)
- tptacek 12y agoYou sound shocked, shocked to have thought of the most common sales objection in the history of startups. Sell any product to a real business and see how long it takes that concern to come up. Memetically, it predates "acquihires" by more than 15 years.
- rurounijones 12y agoI was trying to sum it up in a short'ish manner. However https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7975185 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7975185 does it a lot better than me.