Paul Graham on a New Attitude for Startup Acquisitions

Re:Paul Graham on a New Attitude for Startup Acquisitions by netcan on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @06:32AM (#332114)

That's true in a sense.

Acquisitions only really make sense if a company is creeping horizontally. Otherwise not that man opportunities make sense.

Say Apple decide to concentrate on what their exisitng lines (they've pretty much said so), how many startups would they find to buy? Probably not enough for a CAO.

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Re:Paul Graham on a New Attitude for Startup Acquisitions by jimbokun on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @06:48PM (#332743)

iTunes was an acquisition. So was GarageBand. And I think some other software acquisitions that directly made their hardware more valuable.

I think that says a lot about how Apple's acquisitions strategy.

Although, they also bought PA Semi, and we still don't know yet just what they're doing with them.

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Re:Paul Graham on a New Attitude for Startup Acquisitions by netcan on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @07:03PM (#332754)

So was OS X (I think). I'm not saying there's room for them, I'm saying 'how high could the volume get?'

The volume of software start-up acquisitions should be directly related to the volume of software product lines.

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Re:Paul Graham on a New Attitude for Startup Acquisitions by netcan on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @07:40PM (#332789)

Oh & so was Steve Jobs. But how many CEOs do you need?

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