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Microsoft to Buy Yahoo

February 1st, 2008

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Just ran across this article from Wired. It’s all about how startups are focusing on building something cool and not focusing on being a business i.e. making money. They’re not unprofitable, they’re “pre-revenue”. Staying pre-revenue may make sense while you’re building your awesome product, but after you’ve launched, shouldn’t you start moving into “make money” mode? Maybe?

After all, if your business plan is “Get acquired”, and you do get acquired, the deal may not be done on the terms you’ve envisioned. Just ask perpetually pre-revenue startup edgeio which, after tons of hype and TechCruch promotion, and burning through $6 million in funding, got acquired for a paltry $280,000 in a once again much-hyped online auction. I wanted to get in on the bidding, but unfortunately I have about $23 in my PayPal account.

It’s interesting how Web 2.0, or at least 99% of it is operating in a perpetual pre-revenue state. I’m sure lots of companies quietly run out of funding and exit the market, but you won’t hear about those much. Mostly, you’ll hear about the big acquisitions, and the hot new startups picking up millions in funding. And, since the web bubble continues to grow, more and more startups are obviously entering, enough to cancel out the number of those leaving. All of them in pre-revenue, no doubt.

You pre-revenue startups better budget your funding wisely- Google made 4 acquisitions in June 2007, 3 in July, 2 in September, 1 in October, and 0 in November or December. Gasp- a pattern emerges!

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Microsoft to Buy Yahoo

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