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Re:What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly by jeremyjh on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @04:34PM (#5445895)
>Maybe the goal was to get more people who could quickly assemble a MVP from existing APIs that appealed to the emerging cohort of buyers and trendsetters.

There is a lot to be said for building the right thing; but the actual ability to assemble such products are very common and even the very premium skills are definitely for sale at market rates much lower than $15MM per year.

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Re:What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly by obviouslygreen on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @05:24PM (#5446164)
The skills are common here, not in general, and $15MM (total, not per year) is a cost of purchasing the assembled infrastructure, not the idea and potential to build. I don't think this is a wise expenditure, but you're attacking it from a poor angle.
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