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		peanutcruncher on June 9, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RockYou raises a $35 million round my sentiments exactly jamongkad. I think the key verbiage in the article is "and has done marketing campaigns for other companies like....." If you write a great app then you wrote a great app and if you're lucky you might talk some funding source into paying or lending you $50k for it. If you hire a bunch of great marketing people and give them a crummy app they go out and get some funding source to fork out $35 million for some form of ownership right. This fact of life has to be the greatest frustration there is in being an accomplished developer.

jamongkad on June 9, 2008 | [–]

I mean $35 mil could have been easily distributed amongst the little startups that are actually doing something of value. But that's VC's for yah.

mxh on June 9, 2008 | [–]

But doesn't this "fact of life" just mean that developers should spend some time learning to market? Not getting great at it, but at least competent?

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