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Old 02-07-2006, 07:12 PM  
stereolab
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A Bad Business Decision Thread: In 2003, Google offered to buy Friendster for $30MM

in Pre-IPO stock. Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams rejected it in favor of $13 million in VC funds because the firms valued the company at $53 million. Of course, now, those firms no longer want to fund the company, and Google's stock hit nearly $500 per share.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl.../ai_kepm358716

had they taken that offer, they would be worth something like $2.5 Billion

recently they asked Viacom to buy them for $5,000,000. Viacom rejected the offer.

http://www.paidcontent.org/pc/arch/2...1.shtml#053107

damn.

anyone else have bad business decision stories - your own or otherwise?
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