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Merger (or Acquisition) Recommendations?

Posted by Cliff on from the swallowed-by-a-bigger-fish dept.

pauly asks: "We are a small (5 man) specialized software company which is merging with a larger (200+ employee) company. Basically they are buying us to add a whole new product line and have us be their development skunkworks. What recommendations would Slashdot readers have before, during, or shortly after the acquisition? This post is not a solicitation of legal advice: we have a very nice contract drawn up which is agreeable to both parties and which we will be signing shortly. We are looking for practical precautions or recommendations. If you have gone through the same type of deal, what would you do the same, or differently?"

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  1. Fuck Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck it right in the ear.

    Linux blows goats!!!

  2. News for nerds stuff that matters. by anon1978 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is this an advice column or "News for Nerds, ,stuff that matters"?

  3. I gotta by Old+Uncle+Bill · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm into murders and executions, mainly.

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    Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
  4. Re:Here is what you have to do. by Old+Uncle+Bill · · Score: 1, Troll

    Living proof that you can be a mensa member and still be a fucking moron. Read her journal... Yikes.

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    Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
  5. Why Ask? by Wee · · Score: 0, Troll
    This post is not a solicitation of legal advice: we have a very nice contract drawn up which is agreeable to both parties and which we will be signing shortly. We are looking for practical precautions or recommendations. If you have gone through the same type of deal, what would you do the same, or differently?

    Sounds like you've already made your move. Why ask anyone here what they'd do differently if you've already done it?

    -B

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    Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.

  6. You are truly amazing. by Mensa+Babe · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dear Old Uncle Bill (if that is your real name), I find it hilariously amusing that you hate me so much and yet you devote such a great amount of your precious time to make sure you have read every single word I have ever typed on Slashdot.

    It is indeed extremely amusing, however I also feel very sorry for you, as you apparently have nothing more interesting to do, like e.g. getting a life perhaps.

    I feel sorry, because it must be a terribly boring life, which is spent on carefully reading everything ever written by someone whom you find absolutely not interesting, i.e. me--from posts, to journals, to signatures, to user informations--even calculating the exact time intervals between different posts.

    I am really glad I haven't posted URL of my personal web site, or all of the addresses from which I have ever posted on public mailing lists and usenet for that matter, because I would have been certainly killed by pangs of conscience for giving you hours upon hours of boring reading in terrible anger.

    You might consider calming down a little bit. Otherwise you risk a heart attack. I am serious.

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    Karma: Positive (probably because of superiour intellect)
  7. Tell them this.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Cmdr. Taco needs a good ass-fucking and they everyone of them should go to his house and fuck him up the ass. If there are ladies tell them to wear dildos.