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Re: Vizify acquired by Yahoo

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Post by minimaxir »

yawgmoth wrote: post #10

There are only a handful of comments in this thread and they're already seething with vitriol. Can anyone give context? Or is this just general "Yahoo, blech," sentiment?

There's a difference between celebrating an profitable 9-digit acquisition and celebrating a mercy buyout from a company fond of mercy buyouts. (per TechCrunch, Vizify's last raise was about $1.5M in its life with the last raise in 2012, and it's likely that their options were raise more money, get acquired, or die.)

Re: Vizify acquired by Yahoo

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Post by jchonphoenix »

There's a surprising number of negative comments here. Have any of you ever started a company and been involved in an acquisition process from the front lines?

If not, I'd suggest being a little more careful with your wording. Your statements come across as worse than naive--they come across as petty, with a tinge of idiocy. I'd just make sure I was more informed about these decisions/processes before making commentary on them.

Re: Vizify acquired by Yahoo

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Post by jeffcs »

jchonphoenix wrote: post #12

There's a surprising number of negative comments here. Have any of you ever started a company and been involved in an acquisition process from the front lines? If not, I'd suggest being a little more careful with your wording. Your statements come across as worse than naive--they come across as petty, with a tinge of idiocy. I'd just make sure I was more informed about these decisions/processes before making commenta…

Haters gonna hate, but they clearly have no clue what they're talking about.

Re: Vizify acquired by Yahoo

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Post by callahad »

yawgmoth wrote: post #10

There are only a handful of comments in this thread and they're already seething with vitriol. Can anyone give context? Or is this just general "Yahoo, blech," sentiment?

There's just general antipathy around acqui-hires. The team gets a nice payday, but existing customers get burned.

I suspect that poisons the well for other startups as those customers become more cautious. I'm also generally uncomfortable with concentrating innovation within a small set of megacorps.

Re: Vizify acquired by Yahoo

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Post by lloyddobbler »

I don't know any details of the transaction - but I'm very excited to see Yahoo picking up this team and their social data visualization tech. Yahoo seems to be testing its boundaries as a content provider in a lot of good ways.

Re: Vizify acquired by Yahoo

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Post by AznHisoka »

I knew the name sounded familiar, and then I realized why. I've been to these sites listed in twitter profile bios and they all looked so spammy/useless/devoid of content when I visited them.

Re: Vizify acquired by Yahoo

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Post by droob »

jchonphoenix wrote: post #12

There's a surprising number of negative comments here. Have any of you ever started a company and been involved in an acquisition process from the front lines? If not, I'd suggest being a little more careful with your wording. Your statements come across as worse than naive--they come across as petty, with a tinge of idiocy. I'd just make sure I was more informed about these decisions/processes before making commenta…

They're closing. It's nice for them, but bad for users.

Re: Vizify acquired by Yahoo

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Post by [deleted] »

jchonphoenix wrote: post #12

There's a surprising number of negative comments here. Have any of you ever started a company and been involved in an acquisition process from the front lines? If not, I'd suggest being a little more careful with your wording. Your statements come across as worse than naive--they come across as petty, with a tinge of idiocy. I'd just make sure I was more informed about these decisions/processes before making commenta…

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