Okay, I know that BlogLines being bought is a big deal.
I’ve been an avid BlogLines user and evangelist for more than a year. It’s a great service. But, really, it’s still just an aggregator. The only thing I care about is that they don’t pull a BlogRolling and screw the service up.
I’m tired of having services I rely on go to pot when they get bought up. I understand that the staff and owners get big paychecks and so have problems staying motivated. But, if you’re going to pay millions of dollars for software, why not hire a few consultants from your user base to make sure everything stays on track? Grab 3. Pay them each 500$/day for 3 months. And just write it off as a cost of the acquisition.
I mean, really. Can’t anyone actually do a merger that works besides Google and Microsoft?
#1 by Devin Reams - February 7th, 2005 at 13:23
Hah, you wish consultants got only $500/day… it’d be safer to say $500/hour. Needless to say, I’m looking to get into consulting.
#2 by Jeremy C. Wright - February 7th, 2005 at 13:26
“User consultants” can’t really be picky about what they get
#3 by Hans Henrik - February 7th, 2005 at 15:04
Your right – In fact there is evidence on that. Mckinsey consultants mad a report on exact that topic years ago – most merges fail…….
Best Regards
Hans Henrik
#4 by Jeramey Jannene - February 10th, 2005 at 18:11
Cisco is great at buying up companies and making money off of them. Linksys probably is the biggest example (that I know of).