Comments on: When Is A Good Time To Sell? http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/when-is-a-good-time-to-sell/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:52:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/when-is-a-good-time-to-sell/#comment-113552 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:41:29 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/when-is-a-good-time-to-sell/#comment-113552 moo,

i think linksys and SA and KISS are three deals that get them into the new markets. but their historical patterns haven’t changed all that much. I think they will make some plays. surely enough!

]]> By: moo http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/when-is-a-good-time-to-sell/#comment-113551 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:07:53 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/when-is-a-good-time-to-sell/#comment-113551 Nice podcast Om. Regarding the comment you made about Cisco’s pattern of buying small companies- they just broke the mould and bought SA for $7 bn. What was their motivation there? Recently there was another news that Cisco wants to get into the CE business. Maybe a few more acquisitions are coming up.

]]> By: Om Malik on Broadband : » Angel Funded In A Loo http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/when-is-a-good-time-to-sell/#comment-113550 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:55:24 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/when-is-a-good-time-to-sell/#comment-113550 [...] Last evening, Niall stopped by to record our latest PodSession. Along with him came Scott Johnson, who as we recorded our banter, proceeded to install Word-Press, and MySQL on my Powerbook. (Part of my grand plan to turn WordPress into a word-processor!) Like all geeks, Johnson carries a Treo 650 (when he should be using a Nokia, but never mind) and mid-way through our PodSession, his phone buzzed and he went into my bathroom. [...]

]]> By: Supr.c.ilio.us: The Blog » When to Sell Out? http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/when-is-a-good-time-to-sell/#comment-113549 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:38:12 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/when-is-a-good-time-to-sell/#comment-113549 [...] The Dynamic Duo (Om Malik and Niall Kennedy) ask this complex question in their latest podcast. A whole podcast? I got two words for you: early and often. [...]

]]> By: Ash http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/when-is-a-good-time-to-sell/#comment-113548 Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:47:09 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/when-is-a-good-time-to-sell/#comment-113548 Excellent and timely Podcast, Om. Immensely enjoyed listening to the debate. One quick point on the discussion. Neal talked about the dilemma entrepreneurs face–ie whether to raise capital from VCs, or get acquired by Big companies, to scale their business. Both have their pros and cons. While a big company can instantly provide you with the resources (manpower, capital etc), to scale, they can can also very easily kill your product (Niall’s point). Alternately, raising capital from VC also affects the destiny of the company, in that on some occasions, VCs may chose to infuse more and more capital into a company in the hope of making it into the next big thing ( say a Google, Yahoo, MS, or CISCO), thereby affecting the “exit by acquisition” prospects of the company. We have all heard of the tales in 1999 and 2000, where some VCs refused to accept attractive acquisition offers because they had the misplaced ambition of hitting a home run at the expense of the company.

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