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Re:Ask YC: Aquisition Advice by xirium on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @03:46PM (#227853)
Your deal doesn't have to be exclusive. Indeed, it may be in your interest to supply content or functionality in a non-exclusive deal. (A good example of this would be Microsoft licensing MSDOS to IBM on a non-exclusive basis.)

If you've got good content and functionality which is wanted by one website then there exists the possibility of others wanting it too. Getting the first sale is the hardest and one customer has already "beaten a path to your door".

A licensing deal would allow you to remain independent and it would reduce the legal complexity of an acquisition to that of a simple business deal.

Tags: [business] [licensing] [acquisition] [Microsoft] [IBM] [MSDOS] [content] [website] [sales] [legal]

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Re:Ask YC: Aquisition Advice by run4yourlives on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @06:53PM (#228031)
I had you flagged, but then I thought that that would be inappropriate. Instead, I'll ask you this: What value does a comment have to me out of the context of the conversation I'm reading it in?

All you're doing is polluting your comment (and the site) with nonsense. You should really stop it.

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Re:Ask YC: Aquisition Advice by xirium on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @07:23PM (#228053)
Your profile contains the string #--hackrtrackr:3dwKMm0SsrZSeNg08YUOnuJBfQ3igl#

All your doing is polluting this site (and the web) with nonsense. You should really stop it.

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Re:Ask YC: Aquisition Advice by axod on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @08:15PM (#228092)
A profile is useful. Spamming comments with tags is completely irrelevant and useless to anyone reading it. It's duplication of content.

Please stop it.

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Re:Ask YC: Aquisition Advice by axod on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @04:10PM (#227878)
what's with the tag spam? Do we need those?
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Re:Ask YC: Aquisition Advice by aneesh on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @05:52PM (#227986)
He got tired of waiting for the semantic web ... So he's building it. From scratch. By himself.
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Re:Ask YC: Aquisition Advice by xirium on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @04:50PM (#227923)
I'm working on tag search. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227184 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227932

Tags: [search] [tagging] [meta]

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Re:Ask YC: Aquisition Advice by axod on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @05:07PM (#227942)
Tags: [irritating] [extra] [redundant]
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Re:Ask YC: Aquisition Advice by staunch on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @05:32PM (#227974)
Tags: [witty] [sarcastic] [funny]
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