February 28th, 2012 — Micropreneurship, Startups
Photo by psiaki
This is final installment of a 3-part series covering my acquisition of HitTail. I’d originally planned on a 2 part series, but when parts 1 and 2 went to the top of Hacker News I received so many questions that I decided to add this prologue to answer them.
Every question below has been asked via email, comment or Twitter over the past four weeks.
February 2nd, 2012 — Micropreneurship, Startups
Photo by psiaki
Why I Bought My Next Startup (Instead of Building It)
This is part 2 in a series covering my acquisition of HitTail; part 1 went to the top of Hacker News last week and I have a slew of questions from that discussion that I will answer next week.
But first I want to address the most common question I hear when I tell someone I acquired a startup:
Why did you buy instead of building?
If you’re a developer you’re probably scratching your head wondering how I could pass up the chance to do the awesome green field development. A new project with no legacy baggage…this is the stuff we live for!
But I did indeed opt to plunk down my hard earned cash instead of hunkering down for 6 months in my dev cave, and what follows are my reasons for doing so.
"The ideas and information Rob provides should be required reading for anyone that wants to create a successful business on the web." ~Jeff Lewis
