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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. And to keep up with the Jones’s it seems that Yahoo! The Aqui-hire Business. Let’s assume an early-stage company around for 2 years with limited traction.

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Trimming The Hedges, Planning For A Rainy Day

Haystack

Yet, looking back, not much changed — there’s more money than every in the early-stage ecosystem, bigger financing rounds, large private pre-IPO growth rounds, and much more. .” Then at the end of 2017, the same worry about 2018; rinse and repeat last year, looking toward 2019.