<story><title>Motorola Snaps Up 280 North (YC 08) For $20 Million</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/24/motorola-snaps-up-280-north-for-20-million/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pchristensen</author><text>%^@&amp;#38;&amp;#38;(*%^@%@!&lt;p&gt;pg, please, please get the people building awesome tools to become ridiculously profitable like Wufoo!  I so wanted to use 280 North but I was scared they would get bought and vanish.  My fear came true.  EDIT: Half true.  No word yet on what Motorola is going to do with them.&lt;p&gt;Congrats to the 280 Norths, YC, and their other investors.  Let&apos;s all join hands and pray that Motorola allows development on Cappuccino et al to remain public.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kneath</author><text>At it&apos;s core, YCombinator is a Venture Capital firm. A very different one, but still — they give money, advice and connections for equity in hopes of a return on their investment. You make returns on your investment by companies getting acquired (other methods are extremely rare).&lt;p&gt;I can&apos;t see why a VC firm would argue against a huge exit that makes everyone a ton of money and leaves the founders working on the same product they built and love.</text></comment>
<story><title>Motorola Snaps Up 280 North (YC 08) For $20 Million</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/24/motorola-snaps-up-280-north-for-20-million/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pchristensen</author><text>%^@&amp;#38;&amp;#38;(*%^@%@!&lt;p&gt;pg, please, please get the people building awesome tools to become ridiculously profitable like Wufoo!  I so wanted to use 280 North but I was scared they would get bought and vanish.  My fear came true.  EDIT: Half true.  No word yet on what Motorola is going to do with them.&lt;p&gt;Congrats to the 280 Norths, YC, and their other investors.  Let&apos;s all join hands and pray that Motorola allows development on Cappuccino et al to remain public.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asnyder</author><text>There are plenty of other awesome tools out there. The valley has a tendency to idolize certain people unnecessarily, this leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy.&lt;p&gt;Worst of all the attention that one development tool or team gets, reduces the attention that other teams get. As a competitor (former competitor?), I sincerely congratulate 280North, but to suggest that they&apos;re the only ones building awesome tools is the furthest from the truth.&lt;p&gt;Edit: No reason to down-vote this. No animosity should be read here. I was just saying there are other cool development tools. I congratulate 280North.</text></comment>