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A few people have touched upon it, but the Chicago startup community is very small (compared to SV). Regardless of your opinions around why they were bought, it is nice to see an exit for a Chicago startup (even if they are eating their own) :0)

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Very small indeed. FeedBurner was the posterchild of Chicago-based startup success for a while until Google eviscerated them in the most publicly-humiliating fashion possible.

But as another Chicago-based startup founder that has had the pleasure of doing business with the FF team in person, I wish them all the best, and am confident that they will stick to their guns and keep FF/Samurai the quality product that it is.

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