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Re:Do Acquisitions Always Kill Products? by wikwocket on Thursday January 16, 2014 @12:06PM (#7070647)
This is an interesting article and I like the author's characterizations of acquisitions, but I cannot imagine a worse way to present that data than this. Including a large spreadsheet via a tiny viewing portal in a narrow-format blog post.

I'm curious if there is a reason for including it this way as I don't see anything in the SS that could not presented in a simple list, like this:

  Acqui-hire
  Soft landing with small signing bonuses for the team. Usually the investors 
    get nothing and the common stock may more or less get wiped.
  Product survival: 0%
  % of Tech Acquisitions: 20%
  Founder retention after 2 years: Mixed, depending on how well the team integration 
    goes, and whether the founders are given real roles or sidelined. If founders 
    are exhausted they may enjoy the slower pace of a larger company.
  Examples: Most people don't want their acqui-hire to be characterized as such
Re:Do Acquisitions Always Kill Products? by eladgil on Thursday January 16, 2014 @12:13PM (#7070729)
yeah, i am trying to clean up the formatting now :/ published too soon