Not just Yahoo: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/12/14/dont-buy-th...

"Big established companies with their own revenue streams simply don’t have the skillset needed to be the next Y Combinator"

Of course, insofar as YC depends on acquisition, there's a problem there too.

Which is exactly why Groupon wisely backed away from a deal with Yahoo.

Considering they also rejected Google's offer, I'd say there was more to it than Yahoo's past failures.

You are right. However, I don't think Yahoo's track record in integrating acquired companies helped them at all. Google is perceived as an innovative company where Yahoo seems to follow the leader.

Yahoo cares about products that make revenue, which is why it is dropping things like delicious. I think Groupon would have had a different priority within the company.

I personally believe that without big players like Yahoo!, many ideas would not become startups because there'd be no exit strategy nor funding.

@pavs - Where do you work that's better? What ideas have come out of it that are even worthy of having a Hacker News thread? What products do you work on that people love so much they're distraught with a mention of them not existing? Link me, :D.

I have to work somewhere better in order for me to criticize a sinkhole that is yahoo? What kind of argument is that? If you must know, I am self employed.

> I personally believe that without big players like Yahoo!, many ideas would not become startups because there'd be no exit strategy nor funding.

That has nothing to do with anything I have said.

I wish I could upvote your first paragraph and downvote your second paragraph.