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Re:Blog comment correcting startup gets $25m funding by globalrev on Tuesday August 12, 2008 @12:36PM (#274174)
My first reaction was "how the f--- did they raise 25 million dollars ?", after reading I see their use but still, why 25 million dollars? Do they need that kind of money to expand? How many are they? Do founders ever get a large sum of such money as their own money or is it always purely investment money?

I guess YCombinator make money when their companies receive funding?

Anyway, congrats and good luck!

Re:Blog comment correcting startup gets $25m funding by timr on Tuesday August 12, 2008 @01:17PM (#274212)
It's expensive to build the necessary infrastructure -- the conjunction junctions alone can cost millions.
Re:Blog comment correcting startup gets $25m funding by henning on Tuesday August 12, 2008 @01:29PM (#274225)
As Steve Yegge wrote about earlier, determining the function of a conjunction junction can be difficult.