Posts Tagged ‘acquisition’
My take on the Instagram Facebook acquisition
Yesterday Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars. Last week, Instagram received funding that valued the company at $500 million. So the question is, why did Zuck pay double the valuation for Instagram? Mobile and photos. Instagram, like Path, is a mobile-only network. And Zuck, like many of us, knows that mobile is everything. And…
Read MoreMint CEO talks about startups
Mint CEO Aaron Patzer on Startups from Techcrunch on Vimeo.
Read MoreEntrepreneurs and investors can learn from the Facebook TipJoy “scandal”
Seems everyone is getting excited about what Facebook recently did after pursuing a TipJoy acquisition. Not up on this yet? You can read a TechCrunch article on it, but the gist is that Facebook was talking to TipJoy (micropayments startup) about an acquisition and reportedly offered around $5MM in stock for the company. TipJoy allegedly…
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