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A comment on New Relic files S-1 for IPO.

Re:New Relic files S-1 for IPO by jgalt212 on Monday November 10, 2014 @11:06PM (#8588241)
LTV. That's the key. With interest rates this low, you can pretty much justify any sales and marketing expense so long as customer attrition is low.

If New Relic has a USP (I am not qualified to weigh in on this), then I think they can go public and reward their investors with at least a market level return.

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Re:New Relic files S-1 for IPO by jacquesm on Monday November 10, 2014 @11:21PM (#8588275)
They occupy a niche that Google has a hard time making work for them (too complex) and Adobe so far doesn't really shine there either. Cue a takeover by one of these two at some point in the future.
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Re:New Relic files S-1 for IPO by eloisant on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @06:17AM (#8589298)
What they provide is something that would make sense in Analytics. So who knows, maybe some day Google will annound Customer Analytics as a part of Google Analytics... For free!

It's not like they would be starting from scratch.

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Re:New Relic files S-1 for IPO by blumkvist on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @04:15AM (#8589001)
Event tracking is very small and new part of their business. There are a lot of other startups that do it. New relic's bread and butter is APM.

http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1OE9W5H&c...

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