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It's a good thing if you own or work for the startup. It gives you an exit when otherwise you would be bankrupt and unemployed.



But its a bad thing overall if the employees and owner of the startup were wasting their time and money producing a product that never showed value.


Showed enough value to be acquired...


...by Yahoo, which in light of their current situation is not much of an endorsement.




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