A Delicious Eight Months

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A Delicious Eight Months

Delicious announced today that it has been acquired by Yahoo!

We've got a post up on the Union Square Ventures blog on it.

It's been a delicious eight months and we enjoyed every minute of it.

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Posted December 9, 2005 in Venture Capital and Technology

Comments

Congratulations Fred...that's great to see.

Posted by: Michael Parekh | Dec 9, 2005 3:01:30 PM

How to get ahead in the postbubble world: Build a company cheap. Flip It fast. Repeat.

Someone has been reading OM.

Next?

Posted by: PhoneRanger | Dec 9, 2005 3:10:40 PM

Purchase price?

Posted by: Rockwell | Dec 9, 2005 3:42:22 PM

It's great and congrats to the team.

I think "WAP"(Web As Platform) is going to explode in coming years and many more like this will come...

Posted by: Uday Subbarayan | Dec 9, 2005 4:55:44 PM

Hey all,

Congrats! I'm a big fan of del.icio.us.

-dan

P.S. Strange that Google wasn't the acquirer... they really seemed like a natural fit, but whatever. Yahoo! (so far anyway) has done a good job of not ruining Flickr, so I'm hopeful about del.icio.us' future.

Posted by: dano | Dec 9, 2005 6:04:01 PM

Congratulations!

What's next for you?

If you are interested, I posted my response to the acquisition on my blog if you want to read it

Posted by: Jeff | Dec 9, 2005 8:57:51 PM

I read this Business
2.0 article and I said to myself it's only a matter of days until they buy Del.icio.us out. This article gave it away. What timing. Congrats. I had a feeling this was the business plan.

Posted by: Andrew | Dec 9, 2005 10:09:01 PM

Congratulations - can't wait to see what's next

Posted by: David G | Dec 10, 2005 12:54:39 AM

As my husband would say, don't spend it all in one place. Fantastic quik pick.

Posted by: ellen | Dec 10, 2005 3:07:04 PM

congrats to you and brad on a job well done!

Posted by: Adam Moskowitz | Dec 12, 2005 9:58:17 PM

It's a fine line between being lucky and being good, but I'll take lucky any time :-) Congrats on the liquidity event.

Posted by: P-Air | Dec 13, 2005 12:47:44 PM

Woot! Congraulations on nabbing a nascent model in its infancy and selling to the yodelers. That's a great tool which definitely needed a sponsor like Yahoo to take it to the next level, and I bet in 6 months there will be tagging abilities all over the Yahoo network. Way to go Fred!

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