Just a warning for entrepreneurs out there, if you ever announce funding you will be contacted by people offering the following services: banking; debt financing; PR services; other VCs; fancy SoMA offices; telephone services; India outsourcing; Kansas IT outsourcing; recruiting (x10); equipment leasing; renting/leasing/buying real estate; stories about Audrey Hepburn; web analytics; bandwidth; data communications (?); Java programming. Expect 50+ emails in the first 12 hours, and a steady trickle after that. They will also send emails to firstname @ your domain for every name they can find on the website. It gives you a newfound appreciation for those nice Nigerian banking folks, who gave you attention before you were “big.” ¶
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Robert Accettura | April 17th, 2006 @ 2:34 pm |
Yup, that’s about what I’d expect.
Now imagine what you get if your acquired by google!
Dougal Campbell | April 17th, 2006 @ 2:45 pm |
“Well, there’s spam egg sausage and spam, that’s not got much spam in it.”
Ozh | April 17th, 2006 @ 2:48 pm |
Hmmm…. I hope you gave the mails about Audrey Hepburn the attention it deserved, it should really get your business going.
ryan king | April 17th, 2006 @ 3:17 pm |
Ouch.
I guess that’s one of the reasons that lot of entrepreneurs never announce their funding– its not worth the hassle.
Jim Thompson | April 17th, 2006 @ 3:37 pm |
I hope you bought the Audrey Hepburn story. She was awesome!
Geren | April 17th, 2006 @ 4:02 pm |
Gee, I get all that, and don’t even have funding! Except the Audrey Hepburn story.
Jacques Marneweck | April 17th, 2006 @ 4:20 pm |
That’s scary. Once you’ve announced to the world that Automattic is sizzling hot with the VC injection, then others want you to give them your money, apart from the VC guys who now also want a part of the pie.
Blaze | April 17th, 2006 @ 5:41 pm |
Haha isn’t that half obvious of them. I didn’t think people were so stupid to ask. I wouldn’t have even expected it though.
Of course most funded companies could use offshore outsourcing… right
. That’s how you build a successful business that gets funding.
Aaron Brazell | April 17th, 2006 @ 6:56 pm |
Matt–
I might coud interest you in busssinesss opportunity that very lucrative.
Datapoohbah | April 17th, 2006 @ 7:37 pm |
Uhm, you mean you don’t already have outsourcing? Isn’t WordPress development outsourced now?
You don’t need funding to get calls from sales folks, they just need to think you have money. All it takes is a little PR
Matthew | April 18th, 2006 @ 2:31 am |
How did you get an Audrey Hepburn story thrown in there?
Dougal Campbell | April 18th, 2006 @ 8:02 am |
On a similar note, when we bought our house last year, we were suddenly inundated with offers for credit, refinancing, lawn services, etc. in the mail. I wish I knew which party was responsible for selling our info. There was no mention of it, and no opportunity to opt-out in the zillion pages of legalese that we had to sign.
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Mom | April 19th, 2006 @ 10:48 am |
They will also call your Mom.
Dennis Howlett | April 20th, 2006 @ 12:32 am |
Wow – that’s like money attracts a plague of locusts – simple solution – in the press release put: “We don’t need any of the following hangers-on so don’t bother trying to spam us – the filters are already in place….”