Comments on: Is Getting Acquired Any Fun?

By: hthth

hthth — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:06:58 +0000

I’ve been using MBL for some time now and it seems the largest change they’ve made is to change the default setting of “Show messages from non-contacts?” from on to off.

I’d appreciate a link to that story too :)

By: Justin Kistner

Justin Kistner — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:55:27 +0000

if you read the above link you will understand why

What link? I would like to read that story.

And, are you prepping yourself for the coming requests to acquire 9rules? ;)

By: engtech

engtech — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:15:46 +0000

Getting acquired is the single worst thing for a start up. The integration with the parent company is never well done. You almost always lose all of the momentum that made a company worth acquiring in the first place.

By: karmatosed

karmatosed — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:32:51 +0000

I like the candy clouds. Maybe I’m old fashioned and don’t have a sod it attitude – can’t say how I’d be if I got brought out for a chunk of money, but think it would be the same. You either keep your eye on the ball or install an eye – you don’t just not bother and potter off to the bank singing in your head. Investors usually invest because of selfish reasons, they aren’t giving someone the money and not caring about what happens after that.

By: Rick Turoczy

Rick Turoczy — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:31:47 +0000

Acquisitions are easy. Just a cash and paperwork. And forgetting that there are actually people involved.

The acquisition is just the beginning. Having been through my fair share of both acquisitions and acquisition aftermath I can safely say that bringing people and technology and resources into the fold in a thoughtful and straightforward way takes forever. It’s rarely easy and rarely successful. And it takes a long, long, long time.

Did I mention that it takes a long time?

The MyBlogLog-Yahoo relationship is so new, this isn’t surprising in the least.

Take the Google-Blogger relationship. Google is just barely getting the Blogger code aligned with the Google ID system, and they’ve owned them for how long?

As usual, I digress. Apparently, I’m all jittery from ingesting one too many cotton-candy clouds.