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There's a weekend project for someone.
A fantasy startup game? :)
Not startups, founders.
Winning A Bidding War With Facebook, Google Picks Up The Entire Milk Team
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#54All we are missing is a league where these players can be drafted and traded.
There's a weekend project for someone.
It's Fantasy Silicon Valley available for iPhone and Android! Trade your team's hustlers for their engineers, make billions in an IPO, and defeat the evil villain Mark Zuckerburg.
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Your argument assumes that that "caché" will translate into instant/increased earnings. That is far from a given.
caché = hidden http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cach%C3%A9 maybe what you really mean is "cachet" http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cachet I know it doesn't have an accent
You are correct. I don't use the word often (apparently) and always thought the correct spelling for "cachet" was with the little e. Thanks for the tip!
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#56So I don't see any confirmation anywhere. Techcrunch once told us that Digg was being bought by Google, so I'm somewhat skeptical.
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Other than the data gathering/entry part it'd be a pretty fun project. Anyone interested in working on it?
Use crunchbase for the data.
Of course! I was thinking LinkedIn but not all founders keep that updated or even use it. Should've thought about Crunchbase sooner.
Other than the creepiness aspect it'd be kinda fun.
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#58Is it just me or are things getting a little bubbly...burp burp.
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#59I really don't get it. If the people are so valuable, why pay extra for the company and the investors. Just offer all the employees $1 mill dollar hiring bonuses, and if they gave up on Oink (as it seems they did) they will join you.
Very bad karma in a very tight-knit community that is dependent on investors. Google has been said to do at least one M&A action per week. With that kind of pace, you can't burn bridges.
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That's just incredible. Milk made one application , gave it away for free, summarily shut it down, and sold for $15 - $30 million. I understand these guys are very talented, and that Google was buying the talent more than the product, but that's quite a price for some gifted people!
> quite a price for some gifted people! Every time I saw this happen in the 90s the result was the same: Small team shows up in big company after big $$, gets frustrated with big company BS, doesn't really care and runs down the game clock until vesting is nearly complete, leaves without fanfare. I'm sure there must be counter examples, please let me know some if you have them.
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