How to get bought by Google (or IBM, or Oracle)
May is a month of rebirth and new beginnings. It’s a time when flowers are blooming, trees are flowering, and young bucks lock horns in battle over the privilege of choosing a mate. Those kinds of biological imperatives are a bit masked in the super-refined atmosphere of Silicon Valley, but it’s safe to say that betrothal is on the minds of many a young company these days. They’re complex emotions, to be sure, but they find their truest expression in a question that flits across the mind of many a traveler on Route 101 or, if articulated, is done so only in whispers: “How do we get bought by Google?”
After all, despite all the buzz surrounding new companies in the space that’s been dubbed “Web 2.0,” you don’t need a business degree to see that many of their executives and financial backers are banking on an exit strategy that involves swooning into Google’s embrace or that of some bigger, wealthier firm — especially if the alternative is having to find a way to actually make money off, say, mobile blogging (Twitter), family tree building (Geni), or social networking (umm…take your pick).
Source: www.infoworld.com
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