Here’s a dream scenario:
Start a technology or internet-based company. Grow and nurture that company over the next 1-5 years. Generate some nice revenue and publicity from your venture. Become an acquisitiion target for $50 million-$1 billion. Sell out and live happily ever after.
That’s the dream of most technology company founders. Well Microsoft corporation may have just made it a little easier to achieve that dream.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says that instead of the company pouring tons of dollars into research and development to come up with the next big thing, his company will have a change in strategy. Ballmer says that the company plans to invest more in small acquisitions costing between “$50 million and $1 billion”.
Lord knows they’ve got the capital to do it. The company is sitting on $23 billion in cash and has already purchased 23 companies in 2007…with the biggest deal being the purchase of aQuantive for $6 billion.
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CEO Steve Ballmer said, “We’ll probably buy 20 companies a year for the next five years”.
There are Rumors that Microsoft is already looking to buy into the Social Networking site Facebook. Some are also saying that Microsoft is considering purchasing a stake in Yahoo to try and team up on Google.
So get your business plans tight people. Microsoft is watching!
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