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WP Engine Raises $15M

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How is this for inspiration from back in 2010?

Http://blog.asmartbear.com/nut-up-or-shut-up.html

Congrats to Jason and the team. Very well deserved success.

Thanks so much!

I just read through some of the comments. So much negativity!

Goes to show how all the little negative "suggestions" and "comments" DO NOT matter. If people pay you for your service/product that is all that matters...

Great to see such a massive success Jason.

On the first month I signed up with WP Engine I had a few of my mission critical WP installs go down for over 6 hours and very spotty performance. I was contemplating on going back to running it on my own VPS again but everything has been smooth ever since. I'm pretty glad I stuck it out since I work by myself it has saved me a lot of time in sys admin work.

I really hope that they add better developer tools. Sometimes I miss the freedom of self hosting.

What kind of tools would you like? email me ben@wpengine and let me know!

According to Brunner, WP Engine still had a good amount of its earlier funding in the bank, but decided to go ahead and raise now in order to be able to grow its service quickly.

Are businesses taking on any funding they can now for fear of rough times ahead? It's as if Janet taking over in Feb is making people nervous and times seemingly uncertain.

I think they probably wouldn't tell you :) ... however it would certainly be a consideration, I think.

Common advice is to raise when you don't need it.

you get better terms this way and is a way to shut out competitors that are considering entering your space (because they know you can burn money to stop them getting traction)

If you NEED money, you will find it harder to get

WPEngine has an awesome affiliate program for bloggers $150 per customer - dwarfs other programs I've received...I wrote this up: http://jeffreifman.com/2013/12/20/top-affiliate-program-for-...

Hmmm ... advertising on HN? Do you get a cut of each new affiliate that signs up too?

He'd get a cut of the referral's sales, that's why the link to sign up is itself a referral link as well. This comment is spammy as it gets.

Their effective affiliate program is partly responsible for their growth.

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