No ... these are not some Infrastructure Public Private Partnership models which we are discussing here ... but these are the latest trends going around in the industry. Yeah its true, people are earning millions as a part of deals handing over 'their babies' to Corporate bigwigs !!!
We can go stepwise ... first the ingredients to create a successful startup !!
You need to be a student who has dropped out of a famous college or have successfully completed a top college degree ... either was the college name should be Big !! Obviously there will be a nerd or not so nerd gang with you .. take them along or even your fiancee (that if the trust is there and more importantly if she has an occupied top floor to her building). Second comes the place, well there are numerous options. The shabbier the place the better will your startup sound when it gets featured in Time or Forbes. Well a garage or a the attic sound so legit. Now the name ... this is the most important. If you are 'Able' to 'Mash' it out, nothing like it. But the name should be catchy and Insta(nt) devoid of Gram(mar).
Then you put your vision and mission to it, and some help from the nerds you recruited .. err you took along to make the dream a reality. Then like the making of Powerpuff girls, some sugar something nice and one X factor say a Jobs or a Zuckerberg (just the character) and voila there is your sustainability for the startup !!!
Now look for a big fish in the sea or better 'Google' it out. Do some over the top advertising and create you demand so high that every Cashmore will be offered 'More Cash'.
So when a one year old idea of helping wannabe photographers to give top notch effects to their rather ordinary photgraphs then its an idea of instant moolah rather than instant photos. But why did Facebook buy it for millions seems to be the big question when they could have downloaded it for free from Store or Play. Weird, aint it?
Mashable fell prey to the popular notion of big fish in small pond syndrome. They thought by acquiring Blippr they were the Trumps of this world but when CNN came calling suddenly they became the Kardashians with a flop series.
Zynga felt the need to 'Draw Something' but spending millions for doodles or pictionary is absurd.
Well atleast Microsoft made sense when they acquired Skype as you ought to increase the webcam sales dont you ?
This just in: Slideshare acquired by LinkedIn. Well LinkedIn are such fools, to store resumes of the candidates they dont need to buy Slideshare ... just open a damn account !!
But there are still some dumbasses out there who need to make big bucks before going out of business. Tell that to Dropbox to cash in on Apple(s) before Google 'Drive' in !!!
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