Hotspots.io team (YCW11) acquired by Twitter(hotspots.io)

37 pointsby mp3jeep0114 tahun yang lalu16 comments

Hotspots.io team (YCW11) acquired by Twitter

http://hotspots.io/

17 comments

sskates14 tahun yang lalu

Congrats to Matt, Sandy, and Ashu! Matt has been very generous in helping me navigate through the ups and downs of startups. He's been giving me startup advice and direction for the past year and a half (starting back when I had nothing) and I don't think I would have made it out here to work on Sonalight if it weren't for him.

Since moving on from moki.tv, they've been hard at work on hotspots.io and I'm really glad it worked out for all three of them.

jedc14 tahun yang lalu

When did Hotspots.io launch? Did they ever broadly launch? I hadn't heard of them and couldn't find anything except news on the acquisition.

pclark14 tahun yang lalu

it was Moki.TV before this product. love these guys.

PanosJee14 tahun yang lalu

Twitter buys exclusively YC alumnis or what?

snikolic14 tahun yang lalu

Hotspots, Posterous, BackType...who else am I missing?

dwynings14 tahun yang lalu

AdGrok

ropiku14 tahun yang lalu

Summify wasn't a YC company

rollypolly14 tahun yang lalu

Is there a chance we'll know the acquisition price?

bcjordan14 tahun yang lalu

Out of curiosity, how does the process of publicizing acquisition prices tend to work? Is a price shared only when it's seen as a positive signal for one of the companies?

nikcub14 tahun yang lalu

unless it meets SEC disclosure laws then a price is almost always leaked, and then often in ballpark

responsibility for leaks, almost in order, would be angel investors, VC investors, lawyers and then founders, almost always on the side of the company being purchased.

M&A execs, founders and investors sometimes leaks sales negotiations when they believe it is in their favor to do so.

imjoel14 tahun yang lalu

Congrats guys! How much?

brainless14 tahun yang lalu

Reading the announcement would it be wrong to say this is a talent acquisition?

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Mistone14 tahun yang lalu

another cool startup bites the dust, have fun at the day job.

rdl14 tahun yang lalu

Working at Twitter isn't really a "day job" (even Facebook or Google wouldn't be a day job in the sense of being an IT guy at a local school district, or something else).

There are awesome groups within organizations the size of Google, and even organizations the size of IBM. There's clearly more non-awesome in a big organization too, but if you get stuck in those, you kick back for a year or two, then go do another startup.

pors14 tahun yang lalu

> Working at Twitter isn't really a "day job"

Why not? You have a boss and do what he tells you. That's nowhere near having your own startup.

rdl14 tahun yang lalu

I think you both overestimate the amount of freedom in having your own startup, and underestimate the amount of freedom in a good role at a larger company.