Blinds.com got acquired, in part, because they were a big fish in a small pond.
In all 514 companies went public or got acquired in 2010, netting some $39.3 billion in capital.
Not too long after, Kik's rivals Beluga and GroupMe got acquired in some respectable (but not crazy huge) deals by Facebook and Skype last year.
Today, the company is getting acquired in what looks like a play for some of these newer lines of business: mobile website builder Wix, which went public in 2013, is buying Moment.me, for a price of $10 million, according to sources.
As Avere becomes part of the Microsoft Azure family, it's unclear what impact it will have on existing customers, but there is always some adjustment when a company gets acquired in this fashion.
After Inside Network got acquired in May of 2011 — and after I'd paid off all the taxes and a scary credit card debt from my previous, failed startup — I was stuck trying to figure out what to do with the money I had left.
My next, and third startup, MarketPay, got acquired in its 7th month.
Companies in the autonomous driving space have been getting acquired early in their development — and are going for huge sums.
Still, getting acquired is "in the back of the minds of every company," says Toby Murdock, co-founder of music application developer Qloud.
