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My first exit
- wallflower 17y agoCongratulations! I really like the "My First Sony" analogy. The start of more good things to come. Another verification of Scala for real products. If you're at liberty to divulge, how did you connect with Red Gate? "Ask HN: Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing)" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=883049 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=883049
- bumblebird 17y agoSeems like an extremely early exit :/ 46 days from a "Rate my startup" to a "My first exit" must be a record :)
- DenisM 17y agoThe article says 2.5 years. Personally I would likely take an early exit simply to build up confidence. And resume :-)
- jedc 17y agoRed Gate hosts the Springboard program (similar to YC, but Red Gate doesn't take an equity stake). Even before that, they hosted the "accidentals", a group of startups from in & around Cambridge (UK). Martin was part of the accidentals. More on that here: http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2009/08/the-accidental-incubator.html http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2009/08/the-accidental-in...
- bumblebird 17y agoThey're all microsofty though :/ puts me off a bit.
- clistctrl 17y agoWhat about Microsoft puts you off? I ask because I've chosen to use the MVC Framework, and its been great so far, I feel like choosing Microsoft products has made development faster.
- bumblebird 17y agoI just can't imagine a world where you can't ssh into linuxy servers and do things. Trying to run anything on top of windows doesn't fill me with confidence. Do all windows servers still insist on having a GUI etc? I honestly don't know, but I'd be extremely worried working on a startup running things on windows. (Note I'm really talking as consumer facing website/webapp). For b2b microsoft is probably a saner choice.
- johns 17y agoWindows Server 2008 Core runs without a UI
- barrkel 17y agoI ssh into my Windows machines all the time. And Windows servers don't insist on having a GUI - look up Server Core, the GUI is limited to a console and everything is (and must be) done with the command line.
- Andys 17y agoThe console, hilariously, looks like someone pressed Ctrl+Alt+Del and killed explorer.exe and just left a DOS box running. They've done a remarkable job trying to remove Windows from Windows Server, but (they admit) they are still not quite there yet - the evidence is in the volume of patches that must still be applied to Windows Server Core.
- bumblebird 17y agoGenuine question, as I haven't used Windows seriously for years. Does it ship with ssh out of the box yet?
- DenisM 17y agoWow, this is very cool of Red Gate guys. Way to be a good community member and make a difference.
- authentic 17y agoHelping to nurture local startups is definitely cool. On the other hand, picking them off to integrate into their product pipeline also prevents greater things from happening. I feel that martinkl could have built a company able to stand on its own. The lure of an early exit is understandable however, particularly after a 2.5 year long slug.
- teej 17y agoIs it appropriate, or even legal, to disclose your investors' ROI in your company?
- benhoyt 17y agoPresumably if one has permission it's both appropriate and legal.
- riffer 17y agoIf the answer is 15x and it just happened, how upset is the investor really going to get?
- teej 17y agoPerhaps the culture around this is changing in the US, but I take financial privacy -very- seriously. The kickbacks an investor gets from an investment should be implicitly private.
- martinkl 17y agoBoth Red Gate and the angel investor were asked for permission before these articles were published.