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Microsoft and Docker doesn’t make enough sense

Microsoft and Docker doesn’t make enough sense

By Paul Miller on June 16, 2015

Microsoft and Docker doesn’t make enough sense: Over at Fortune, Barb Darrow and Jonathan Vanian speculate on rumours that Microsoft might be sniffing around containerisation champion Docker. Docker has, of course, denied the rumours. But, more importantly, the acquisition just doesn’t make enough sense to justify the multi-billion dollar valuation. The project is open source. The […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source | Tagged barb darrow, containerisation, containerization, Containers, docker, dockercon, fortune, jonathan vanian, mergers and acquisitions, microsoft, rumors, rumours, speculation, virtualization

Why I hate acquihires (unless I'm doing the selling)

Why I hate acquihires (unless I’m doing the selling)

By Chris Yeh on May 20, 2013

The always insightful Mark Suster recently tackled the subject of acquihires–the practice of large companies buying small startups simply to acquire their people.  Mark lays out an excellent argument for why the acquiring companies are actually losing out when they make acquihires: “You have been at Google, Salesforce.com, Yahoo! for years. You have worked faithfully. […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged acquihire, failure, mergers and acquisitions, VC, vceconomics | 1 Response

If You Sell Your Company, Use a Banker

If You Sell Your Company, Use a Banker

By Jason M. Lemkin on May 6, 2013

When I sold my first company, I used a banker, an M&A advisor.  When I sold my second, I did not.  Not using a banker the second time was a mistake. The benefits are nonobvious, somewhat counterintuitive — and large. You don’t get THAT much from a banker for their seemingly huge fees: They don’t […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Entrepreneurship, mergers and acquisitions, saas, startups | 1 Response

And So Begins the End of this SaaS M&A Cycle

And So Begins the End of this SaaS M&A Cycle

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 25, 2012

… and hence the acquisition dies due to excessive capital requirements. It’s almost impossible to blend a profitable entity with a new acquisition that is burning tens of more millions per year, unless it’s a total make-the-company bet like Android.

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, android, BuddyMedia, m&a, mergers and acquisitions, radian6, saas, salesforce.com, software as a service, techcrunch | 1 Response

Quick Thoughts: Dell Acquires Boomi

Quick Thoughts: Dell Acquires Boomi

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 2, 2010

Boomi (see previous CloudAve coverage here), the Pennsylvania based cloud services integration provider, is acquired by Dell today. Ever since IBM acquired Cast Iron, there were speculations that Boomi could be the next in the block and it has come true today. Dell has been building up the speculation machine on a possible cloud acquisition […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged analysis, boomi, cast iron, dell, jitterbit, m&a, mergers and acquisitions, system integrator | 1 Response

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