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i feel like HN is fascinated by but has relatively little understanding of how deals work. companies don't just show up on your doorstep with an acquisition of
by joshu 15y ago
i feel like HN is fascinated by but has relatively little understanding of how deals work.
companies don't just show up on your doorstep with an acquisition offer and a giant check. many times the deals are staged and dependent on progress. consider google's acquisition of dMarc, the talked about price, and the actual price.
- neilk 15y agoI'd love to read more about this... what the average person thinks versus the reality of a deal.
- techiferous 15y agoDitto. Someone please blog about this and post to HN!
- ojbyrne 15y agoI think HN is much better than TechCrunch/Mashable/etc in that regard. The big tech blogs seem to have a vested interest in promoting the idea of huge acquisitions. People here seem genuinely interested in the details and the detailed outcomes.
- joshu 15y agoI dunno. It feels like a lot of the comments are either angry/chip on shoulder/etc or are presenting opinions as fact for puffery. Hardly any better. There's not even a glimmer of doubt in anyone's mind that the reporting might be incorrect, etc.
- jarek 15y agoHN thinking TC might not be perfectly right every time? Why I never! - Still bitter about the TC/Last.fm/U2 story
- josefresco 15y agoWe use the the article as the basis for the debate here. Sometimes that debate stays on topic, sometimes it does not. For the sake of timeliness we mostly have to assume the article is accurate, however sometimes the debate itself is regarding the authenticity of the publisher, author or sources (or lack thereof). The HN system is quite healthy IMHO
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- Canopy 15y agoAnd to enter in negotiations of this kind is usually to divert most of your energy from actually building your company. You end up with a team only working on this topic, only working on the contract and the visible surface of the project, and after weeks or months of very hard meetings, you sometimes have bet so much that you think you don't have any other choice than sell.