I think often-times those types of acquisitions are just to get the talent, or the IP from the product, moreso than to launch a new product outright. Where I s

I think often-times those types of acquisitions are just to get the talent, or the IP from the product, moreso than to launch a new product outright. Where I see problems of course is that so often startups are acquired by bigger competitors who probably have the best of intentions, but can't help but stifle the newly acquired employees into doing things 'their way'... Their way of course being the way that allowed the startup to eat up so much of their market share with minimal funding, yadda yadda.