Darrell Silver!

After an incredible roller-coaster of three short years, I’m extremely proud to announce that Perpetually has been acquired by Smarsh! The technology as we envisioned it — perfect, interactive archives of any website — is already thriving under its new name: Smarsh Web Archiving.

I’ve also joined Smarsh to grow web archiving across its 15,000 customers.

We’ve all been sprinting to make today’s announcement possible. Our success today is as much due to the passion of the Smarsh team as it was the Perpetually team and our investors’ risk appetite over the years — all of which paid off nicely.

But there’s one group whose impact cannot be overstated: The NYC tech community.

The Perpetually story proves how beneficial it is to be a tech startup in NYC right now. After many coffees, dinners, drinks, calls and emails in December, it became clear just how much of a support system we now have here. The people who helped make this deal work were VCs, entrepreneurs, family, salespeople, engineers, students and even an ex-Goldman banker. Most had no financial incentive to do so. Many other friends from SF helped for sure, but NYC offered a diversity of talent unavailable anywhere else.

The last three years have been a wild ride, and perseverance has paid off. Next time at 1000x!

This sentiment from Mixpanel is spot on. Done right, “internships” are really much more like a productive, paid apprenticeship:

In 2008, I interned at Slide, Inc. and it was one of the most valuable summers of my life. I went from being a college hacker interested in starting a company to learning the intricacies of product design and working with a team.

At Slide, Inc. we stayed up late hacking (because we wanted to), I learned about product from an awesome product manager named Adora, and Max Levchin worked closely on a product that didn’t necessarily have immense amount of business value for Slide.

After my internship, I had huge takeways:

• I wanted to start a company.
• I knew grad school didn’t matter out in California
• I grew a huge network at Slide who became some of my closest friends.
• I learned smaller things like: git, python, vim, etc.
• I could have never built Mixpanel without having been at Slide first.
• Max Levchin ended up investing in our company during the recession - a time when it was hard to raise money.

At Mixpanel, we value our internship program because of this. Last year, we asked our interns to talk about their experiences: http://code.mixpanel.com/2011/11/15/internship-stories/

If you’re looking for similar experience, please apply for an internship by emailing: jobs@mixpanel.com with the subject “Internship”

Sincerely,

Suhail

Founder @ Mixpanel, Inc.

Far too many startups don’t have the resources for an internship program. Mostly, the missing link is a little creativity on what a 20 or 22-year old student can contribute over the course of a single summer. This is a solvable problem. :)

Microsoft and others are pushing to legalize gay marriage in Washington, arguing that this inequality makes the state less competitive:

As other states recognize marriage equality, Washington’s employers are at a disadvantage if we cannot offer a similar, inclusive environment to our talented employees, our top recruits and their families.

Win them over with markets – an awesome approach, IMO. While HRC and others are doing their best to push state-by-state adoption of marriage equality, Microsoft may have just found the magic ticket. Can you imagine voting against your state’s largest employers when they tell you how to create more local, high-tech jobs?

I’m excited.