UPDATE: I’ve found my next big thing, and it’s called Embarke! I was accepted to the Founder Institute in March of 2011, and graduated after 4 grueling months of entrepreneurial incubation. I met my cofounder Bryan Hall through the program, and we’ve started a new company. Our beta was in July 2011, and the rest is (or will be) history. Have a look at our site, and let us...
I thought it would be fun to take a different perspective on how to go about merging or acquiring a company…by focusing our undevided attention on how to fail at it. This article focuses mostly on the technology aspects and skips over Human Resources, Finance, and other non-technical areas. I will spend a little time on Operations, though…as Technology and Operations should be...