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.
Musings of a VC in NYC
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Congratulations Fred...that's great to see.
Posted by: Michael Parekh | December 09, 2005 at 03:01 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 | December 09, 2005 at 03:10 PM
Purchase price?
Posted by: Rockwell | December 09, 2005 at 03:42 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 | December 09, 2005 at 04:55 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 | December 09, 2005 at 06:04 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 | December 09, 2005 at 08:57 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 | December 09, 2005 at 10:09 PM
Congratulations - can't wait to see what's next
Posted by: David G | December 10, 2005 at 12:54 AM
As my husband would say, don't spend it all in one place. Fantastic quik pick.
Posted by: ellen | December 10, 2005 at 03:07 PM
congrats to you and brad on a job well done!
Posted by: Adam Moskowitz | December 12, 2005 at 09:58 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 | December 13, 2005 at 12:47 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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