Some of these comments confuse me. What do you expect an m&a email to read like? Having been through a bunch of acquisitions, that email is par for the course, especially for a (presumably) smaller acquisition. You have an internal product sponsor who asks for basic financial info, asks for a price, has clearly laid out next steps and the process, and wants to start immediately. All positive for a first step. Some of the best corp dev guys I know have the worst grammar and email manners and to focus on that as a weakness is ridiculous...as long as they can approve a wire transfer, who cares? Some people are Youtube and have Eric layering sweet sugary syrup on their Pancakes whilst they discuss the beautiful synergies of a monster deal, but most of the time, the startup CEO is hustling it across the finish line.
The email I received from Google in 2007 when they wanted to buy Zlio
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#22What an awful email. Reads like a lazy VC associate trying to do as little work as possible to pass along metrics to higher ups.
It was 2007. Maybe he was typing it on a blackberry?
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#23Why is it now trendy to publish private mail like this? Is there really that much public benefit to be had?
For a washed up has-been startup founder looking for catharsis or another 15 minutes of fame? Sure.
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#24Social eCommerce Site Zlio Joins the Deadpool: http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/19/social-ecommerce-site-zlio-...
This is why I wouldn't touch SEO as a consultant. They ended up getting sued, despite little chance probably they could fix their issues without massive internal changes to the service. I guess the SEO company overpromised.
Referencement appears to be a black-hat-SEO French company: http://m.pinterest.com/visual3d/referencement-seo-smo/
I didn't realize, France has UK-style libel laws, where complaining about getting ripped off is punishable?
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It's amazing how even when buying a company, people can't be bothered to use proper capitalization or even spell out the word "please". Wow. I must have slept through the English class where they told me this was OK.
I think it's a power thing because they're manoeuvring for negotiation. Translation: "I can't be bothered to spell because you're teensy and I have another $1B to spend today on companies 100x bigger than yours. Make with the paperwork chop chop." Then, confirmation: "Give me your mobile so I can call you any time I feel like to make you jump, because you're the bitch now."
Hey Benny, I couldn't comment on your comment directly because you're in ban hell. But I get what you're saying.
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took a quick look, aren't those backlinks to subdomains? No idea what the product/service does but it appears subdomains are the main spam links, not the root.. So perhaps they were duped by spammers creating subdomains
It is a create your own store product. People would have simply been making a store and then using software to spam their links everywhere. I think sub domains are usually treated as separate domains though?
They are separate for user generated subdomains.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/understanding-root-domains-subdom...
It is possible that on that fateful day, Google noticed zlio is user generated sub domains, and lost power.
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It's amazing how even when buying a company, people can't be bothered to use proper capitalization or even spell out the word "please". Wow. I must have slept through the English class where they told me this was OK.
I think it's a power thing because they're manoeuvring for negotiation. Translation: "I can't be bothered to spell because you're teensy and I have another $1B to spend today on companies 100x bigger than yours. Make with the paperwork chop chop." Then, confirmation: "Give me your mobile so I can call you any time I feel like to make you jump, because you're the bitch now."
Yeah. My reply to that message would have been "I only give my mobile phone number to friends. Please use my office line between the hours of 9 AM and 5 PM EST."
But honestly, a lot of people seem to like doing business deals while walking around with their cell phones, so perhaps this is not actually a power play.