RockYou raises a $35 million round

Re:RockYou raises a $35 million round by jamongkad on Monday June 09, 2008 @10:03AM (#212766)

Wow $35 million for another round of useless FB apps.

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Re:RockYou raises a $35 million round by peanutcruncher on Monday June 09, 2008 @11:39AM (#212841)

my sentiments exactly jamongkad.

I think the key verbiage in the article is "and has done marketing campaigns for other companies like....."

If you write a great app then you wrote a great app and if you're lucky you might talk some funding source into paying or lending you $50k for it. If you hire a bunch of great marketing people and give them a crummy app they go out and get some funding source to fork out $35 million for some form of ownership right.

This fact of life has to be the greatest frustration there is in being an accomplished developer.

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Re:RockYou raises a $35 million round by jamongkad on Monday June 09, 2008 @12:42PM (#212898)

I mean $35 mil could have been easily distributed amongst the little startups that are actually doing something of value. But that's VC's for yah.

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Re:RockYou raises a $35 million round by mxh on Monday June 09, 2008 @03:34PM (#213074)

But doesn't this "fact of life" just mean that developers should spend some time learning to market? Not getting great at it, but at least competent?

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