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by tristanz 4474 days ago
The Cuban comment in that thread is interesting:

"I didn't miss a thing. When a company raises hundreds of millions of dollars I would have been diluted to nothing. But the bigger issue is that I'm not a fan of situations where you have to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to do tens of millions in sales. It's a lesson learned from the tech bubble

It was one thing when the valuation as a multiple of sales was in stock. It's a bigger thing when that multiple is my cash."
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midas007 4474 days ago
Box needs to monetize on enterprise add-ons. There's a huge pile of cash there if they hustle ahead and steal Dropbox's lollipop.

Further, nurturing and gobbling up feature plays. Gotta pull off a "Siri."

Finally, tons more integrations (other apps, more language sdks and some videos showing off some neat use-cases at open source conferences).

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ssijak 4474 days ago
advice pulled out of from where the sun does not shine... really, give talks at open source conferences, that would raise value how much? or library for brainfuck?
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midas007 4474 days ago
Having dev evangelists presenting cool shit gets people aware of your platform and it's free marketing, the best kind.

Further, Java, Python, Ruby, Obj-C, Android and C# isn't complete. [0] JS for browser front-end and node back-end is clearly missing or third-party. A somewhat smaller shop, Segment.io, has all of those and PHP and Clojure. And a metric ton of integrations comparatively. [1] [2]

[0] http://developers.box.com/sdks/

[1] https://segment.io/libraries/analytics.js

[2] http://blog.box.com/tag/integrations/

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