Where does the long-term R&D investment come from?
Mostly from the same place Microsoft's R&D budget comes from: the companies' own revenues.
Mostly from the same place Microsoft's R&D budget comes from: the companies' own revenues.
An example would be someone like Simon Peyton-Jones at Microsoft:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/simonpj/
Much of what he does may eventually filter down to the rest of the company, but there's a real risk that some of it won't, or that it'll be picked up by someone outside of Microsoft, etc...
How does that sort of thing work out with a number of small companies networked together?
https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm
They did some other stuff to accommodate their needs.
Maybe the YC model will reach that "how will we be computing in 10 years" phase at some point. But (perhaps with good reason?) it does not seem to be there yet.
Really? So those YC acquisitions deals are all-cash?