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Acquisitions done right
- hkarthik 16y agoI've always found acquisitions go well when it's a big company augmenting their offerings with a new offering that they don't currently have. They can take the new offering and pump more resources into it to make it more successful. This thinking can keep the founders around. Acquisitions almost always go poorly when it's just a play to grab a customer base. Unfortunately, in the Enterprise software space, this is usually the motivation for the acquisition and it's rarely a good thing for the customers. As the customers get pissed off, the founders lose motivation and leave, and generally the acquiring company slowly shuts down the product that they couldn't really support anyway.