The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

[oldberkeley]

It's almost impossible to find a message board where numerous posters are not continually talking about a buyout, no matter how unsuccessful or irrelevant the company is.

I saved this excerpt from a January Business Leaders Network article because I thought it was spot on:

•In reality, it is not very common to get bought by a large technology company. Over the course of the first decade of the millenium, over 258 companies were purchased by the 10 most active technology acquirers. That is an average of 26 per year globally. That is not very many acquisitions given there are probably 10,000 startups per year that are basing their exit strategy on an acquisition.
•To be part of the acquired group, you need to have customers, technology or something less tangible that an acquirer REALLY, REALLY, wants.