Mechanics of a Small Acquisition • Hacker News Board

Re: Mechanics of a Small Acquisition

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Post by pronoiac » Wed, Aug 01, 2012, 7:07 AM UTC

Has anyone collected advice for after the acquisition? I'm thinking things like:

* Give yourself six months or so after joining before finalizing plans to sunset your original systems. It gives you time to work out the lay of the land re: political and software integration.

* If you expect more manpower in development or maintenance, get it down in writing.

Thoughts?

Re: Mechanics of a Small Acquisition

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Post by bilbobaggie » Wed, Aug 01, 2012, 8:52 AM UTC

TechCrunch basically paraphrased this article (http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/31/the-mechanics-of-a-small-ac...). It's nice that Stypi is getting more press, but is it weird that TechCrunch kept the same format and only mildly changed the wording of the original post?

Re: Mechanics of a Small Acquisition

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Post by basilpeters » Wed, Aug 01, 2012, 1:35 PM UTC

ringoboo wrote: post #16

camz wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've written an ebook about the due diligence process and I could write a post that explains it if enough ppl are interested

Yes please

Me too. Thanks.

Re: Mechanics of a Small Acquisition

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Post by basilpeters » Wed, Aug 01, 2012, 1:36 PM UTC

gyardley wrote: post #8

maxpalm wrote: post #4

There's little public information about small acquisitions and how they happen -- thanks for sharing. Everyone would be better off if there more information and transparency around these processes.

I thought Basil Peters' Early Exits (www.early-exits.com) was a pretty decent overview.

Glad you found it valuable. My mission is to debunk the standard myths, misperceptions and outright lies about the exit process.