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Forgot to mention. We just hit 10,000 paying customers as well. Yay!

Maybe you should change the headline to "We work a 4-day week and have 10,000 paying customers".

I don't equate raising money with success. 10k paying customers speaks for itself.

Raising money is absolutely a milestone on the journey to success.

Congrats to Treehouse on raising the funding necessary to continue expanding the business and delighting customers. Bollocks to the haters who have no clue on how to build a business.

i think the point is that raising money and building a business are orthogonal. some businesses need external capital. some don't.

"Raising money is absolutely a milestone on the journey to success."

Go tell that to DHH :)

I personally like it more this way:

"Profiting is absolutely a milestone on the journey to success."

Different perspectives, I guess. No hate.

The difference is I agree that both funding and profiting are milestones on the success journey. Whereas the person I responded to apparently does not. And it's not clear that you do either.

I went through the library and I see most of the videos are pretty short. There is hardly 40 minutes of video on html5, same is true for iOS programming. At this point, I would prefer free Stanford courses over treehouse. What am I missing here?

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