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Re:Sparrow acquired by Google by jarek on Friday July 20, 2012 @07:10PM (#4273292)
> Plenty of apps have existed for decades on those prices.

Most of these weren't funded by VCs expecting some sort of liquidity event to get return on their investment.

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Re:Sparrow acquired by Google by shinratdr on Friday July 20, 2012 @09:37PM (#4273656)
Fair enough but it's not like it was some once-in-a-lifetime buyout, it was $25 million and it was for talent not the app. Did the VCs really make that much off this sale?
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Re:Sparrow acquired by Google by jarek on Friday July 20, 2012 @11:16PM (#4273822)
$5 million in the hand is better than $10 Mac App Store sales in the cloud, apparently
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