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Re:Tumblr Adds $25 Million in Funding by kmfrk on Friday December 17, 2010 @07:58PM (#2018520)
For a moment I thought that they'd just received more money, but it seems like it's just a confirmation of earlier rumours: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1941227.
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Re:Tumblr Adds $25 Million in Funding by waleedka on Friday December 17, 2010 @07:12PM (#2018416)
Anyone knows how they make (or plan to make) money? They don't put ads, and I don't see premium services offered at sign up?
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Re:Tumblr Adds $25 Million in Funding by unicornporn on Friday December 17, 2010 @07:15PM (#2018421)
This is their only attempt at making money that I know of: http://www.tumblr.com/themes/premium
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Re:Tumblr Adds $25 Million in Funding by thesethings on Friday December 17, 2010 @07:19PM (#2018435)
You can also buy paid placement in their Directory tool (which is like a really nicely curated "suggested user to follow" dynamic).
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Re:Tumblr Adds $25 Million in Funding by waleedka on Friday December 17, 2010 @08:24PM (#2018588)
Interesting. Although, it doesn't strike me as a scalable business. At least not to the point of justifying such big investment.
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Re:Tumblr Adds $25 Million in Funding by jdp23 on Friday December 17, 2010 @07:37PM (#2018485)
It's actually $30M -- TechCrunch has an update at http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/17/confirmed-tumblr-raises-25-...

Current investors Spark and Union Square went in for $5M each and Sequoia took $20M.

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Re:Tumblr Adds $25 Million in Funding by michaelelliot on Friday December 17, 2010 @07:38PM (#2018486)
Let's hope they spend it on some well needed server infrastructure.

See: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/17/ok-tumblr-this-is-getting-j...

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Re:Tumblr Adds $25 Million in Funding by unicornporn on Friday December 17, 2010 @08:20PM (#2018573)
Let's hope they spend it on finding a way to actually make money (other than receiving donations) so I can keep using Tumblr. I like it.
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Re:Tumblr Adds $25 Million in Funding by away on Friday December 17, 2010 @09:45PM (#2018733)
Will they use that money so that they can let readers post comments?
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