I'm interested to know if this activity will bring any viability or perhaps tempt Apple into allowing greater access to their lock screens?
Aviate joins Yahoo
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#23This might be out of context, but a question though. How this companies get bought? Of course, building a great product is part of it. But are they shopping around, emailing / visiting bigger companies to buy them? Or they will just wait until some bigger company contact them and have some negotiations?
Interestingly, just yesterday Evan Spiegel (CEO of Snapchat) posted a screenshot of his e-mail introduction to Mark Zuckerberg (who is strongly rumored to have offered 4 billion for the company).
The screenshot is here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdU892zCAAEXy-q.png:large
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#24whats the over under for companies that get purchased by google/yahoo/apple/microsoft and never see anything more from them?
The worst is they shut down the product and the team was assigned work in unrelated area. I would say most of the time these companies just want to control the future of the product, it's more a defensive act.
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They don't buy the product they buy the team and their vision.
Perhaps most importantly: They bought the userbase.
How would Yahoo! acquire the user base in this case? By putting more Yahoo! apps on the screen? But users need to install them in the first place.
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Aviate Team comes from Google (Google Play PM and Search Engineer). I would think right people at Yahoo Knew the talent and want it. http://getaviate.com/team.html Congrats to the team. Great Product and team.
You might be right. So this is the case for Aviate. How about other startups?
Everyone under this branch made good points. Graduated from a top company with valuable experience is definitely a plus for this kinda scenario, but from my experience it's not a must.
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#27Now, how long until they close down?
Yahoo has repeatedly proven it is not a safe location for any service; it is even worse than google in that respect.
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I think it depends on how much they pay for it. If the price is high, then they want the product. If the price is low, they want the people. Of course even if the price is high, sometimes companies muck it up anyway.
If the price is high they want the user base. I don't think big companies care too much about a product in itself. They care about the team (which created a good product) and/or a userbase.
Good point - I hadn't considered the userbase. But don't they lose the userbase if they crap on the product after it's been acquired?
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If the price is high they want the user base. I don't think big companies care too much about a product in itself. They care about the team (which created a good product) and/or a userbase.
Good point - I hadn't considered the userbase. But don't they lose the userbase if they crap on the product after it's been acquired?
Absolutely. I consider that a failed acquisition -- which many companies do. Yahoo!, for example, had done this a lot in the past with their acquisitions.