I’m curious about this. What kinds of load is your company is running? How do you take them offline and online so quickly without affecting production or leading to long restart cycles?
Any idea why there are no efforts of starting a YC-like organization in other parts of the world? The only attempt I remember was yc-europe but I think they are gone. Isn't there any bunch of angels or VC's that are interested in doing this?
This article points out an interesting fact about product pricing, saying it's "an easy sell at $54 a user [...] That’s almost disposable money, and was an easy pitch to most managers." but "$539 [...] is now a difficult to justify expenditure, requiring vendor comparisons, and negotiations with middle managers."
All the Basecampish web apps have this competitive edge, making it easy to justify the small investment and simple to subscribe.