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it was probably a good example in how not to manage an acquisition. within a week of joining our team was split up, our product shut down and a lot of the resou

by Harj 17y ago

it was probably a good example in how not to manage an acquisition. within a week of joining our team was split up, our product shut down and a lot of the resources we'd been promised weren't available. from other people I've spoken to who have been acquired, this isn't an atypical scenario. still, I ended up working on cricket.com and enjoyed it, took it from a site of spam links to a community for cricket fans with 1m monthly uniques and $30k revenue a month. I left after just over a year there.

robryan 17y ago
Wouldn't be surprised if cricinfo made a big offer for that domain at some point. Where do you pull the scorecard data from?
- Harj 17y ago
  we pulled it from a data feed provided by cricket archive, presumably they're still doing that now.
- zaidf 17y ago
  That would be silly of cricinfo IMO. They have a well established decade old brand(in fact, one of the first websites on the Internet, I believe).
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johnrob 17y ago
Why do you think they bought you guys then? I'm assuming the product has been shut down, and the team has since moved on - what did they get out of the acquisition?