Mochi Media Acquired By Shanda Games For $80 Million
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Mochi Media Acquired By Shanda Games For $80 Million
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#3Congrats to Heyzap, which competes with them.
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#4The TechCrunch article doesn't mention it, but Mochi has made some major contributions to Python/Erlang open source and Erlang evangelism for quite a while, including the MochiWeb HTTP server: http://code.google.com/p/mochiweb/
Re: Mochi Media Acquired By Shanda Games For $80 Million
#5Congrats to Heyzap, which competes with them.
How is it beneficial to Heyzap?
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#7The TechCrunch article doesn't mention it, but Mochi has made some major contributions to Python/Erlang open source and Erlang evangelism for quite a while, including the MochiWeb HTTP server: http://code.google.com/p/mochiweb/
Yep, agreed and I believe they created the MochiKit and SimpleJSON projects as well.
FWIW, MochiWeb is also used by CouchDB and some other Erlang projects too.
Re: Mochi Media Acquired By Shanda Games For $80 Million
#8Congrats to Heyzap, which competes with them.
How is it beneficial to Heyzap?
Successful competitors are God's way of signalling that there is money to be made in a field. Most markets are not winner take all and can support several firms, so if you're trying to demonstrate to a skeptical observer that your idea has value, you can say a) "Look at X, they're successful." and b) "You can't buy X at any attractive price, but happily for you, we're still cheap. Comparatively speaking."
That assumes you care about acquisitions. If you don't, though, same deal except you get to convince yourself. If one of my competitors mentioned they're making, say, a few million, that would be great news for me: it would mean there's a few million to be made. (I used to think my entire market generated probably $100,000 in sales a year. I'm thinking that probably substantially underestimates the current total, and think the size of the pie can still be increased.)
Re: Mochi Media Acquired By Shanda Games For $80 Million
#9Congrats to Heyzap, which competes with them.
How is it beneficial to Heyzap?
Acquisitions are a time when companies get distracted and in some cases change direction completely.
For instance, Slicehost dropped the ball (just a little bit, not a lot) when they got acquired, and people have been moving over, or starting fresh with Linode.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is it beneficial to Heyzap?
Successful competitors are God's way of signalling that there is money to be made in a field. Most markets are not winner take all and can support several firms, so if you're trying to demonstrate to a skeptical observer that your idea has value, you can say a) "Look at X, they're successful." and b) "You can't buy X at any attractive price, but happily for you, we're still cheap. Comparatively speaking." That assume…
I agree with the benefits mentioned. There are probable drawbacks too, however.
Usually the acquirer has some strengths that will expand the market penetration of the company being acquired, in addition to larger coffers to invest. This could mean tougher competition for their competitors (except when the acquirer focuses on different market segments from these competitors.)