{"id":766,"date":"2014-02-05T19:25:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T19:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=766"},"modified":"2014-02-05T19:25:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T19:25:24","slug":"37-signals-becomes-basscamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"37 Signals Becomes Basecamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/37signals.com\/'>How strange!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not what I&#8217;d have thought they&#8217;d do. Perhaps my model of S37 is wrong, but would you expect a bunch of hip young(ish) things to want to give up their experimentation and consolidate their energies on a maturing cash-cow?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIs this actually a sign that 37 Signals are in trouble? Or that investors are squeezing them? (Do S37 even have outside investors?)<\/p>\n<p>\nOne possible thinking is that they&#8217;re going to spin off other products as separate companies, which S37 retain ownership of but, presumably, hand-over management of to other, hungrier, more focussed people. That&#8217;s a potential way to scale up. But it&#8217;s not entirely clear that this the big strategic focus. Especially as they claim they&#8217;d also willingly support these other products in maintenance mode forever.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThey say it&#8217;s odd. But that that&#8217;s cool because they like to be unorthodox. I guess what seems weird to me is that this just doesn&#8217;t seem &#8220;fun&#8221;. Does that mean that S37 are becoming the poster-children for &#8220;anti-fun&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How strange! It&#8217;s not what I&#8217;d have thought they&#8217;d do. Perhaps my model of S37 is wrong, but would you expect a bunch of hip young(ish) things to want to give up their experimentation and consolidate their energies on a maturing cash-cow? Is this actually a sign that 37 Signals are in trouble? Or that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,438],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-better-industry","tag-startup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}