This is one of those companies I actually really wanted to see get bought out by a large player.
Milo is a good site but has nearly reached the boundary of what they can offer at their current scale. They seem to have a decent interface to all the major retailers which offer reasonable inventory access to them. The next stage will require a lot more business development, data pushing and marketing. As a user, I can't wait to see the results.
I dunno, there's a big difference between "running your mouth off on the internet", and "running your mouth off on the internet, often being right and at least having solid supporting arguments when controversial".
I don't mind people being opinionated, or even wrong - if they also demonstrate they've thought about the subject at hand. Extra credit when people are controversial and entertaining at the same time.
Congrats on the sale Ted, I hope it works out well and was what you wanted - and keep on entertaining (at least some of us) with your public persona/writing.
I hope that adorable real-life dog that they based their logo on is going to get some sort of diamond collar, or a dinosaur bone of some sort for this. It's rare that a cute pet makes a good logo. :)
From the article, it looks like Milo wanted to sell quickly before Google ate their lunch. I don't think Milo's leadership intended to sell the company at this stage of its existence. From an article the CEO did almost a year ago, I think it wanted to be like Ebay or Google, not be prematurely bought by one of them:
"About a year later, I saw 165 University Avenue for rent. I knew I had to have the space. It’s the same building that housed Google, PayPal, Danger, and Logitech. We moved in and have grown from 2 to 10 employees since then. Milo.com, which started out as an idea in an apartment, now has over 1 million unique visitors!"
Ha, eBay has it's own local product search now. Google does too.
Amazon doesn't, Facebook doesn't, Yahoo and Microsoft? Nope.
I smell more acquisitions.
Milo is a good site but has nearly reached the boundary of what they can offer at their current scale. They seem to have a decent interface to all the major retailers which offer reasonable inventory access to them. The next stage will require a lot more business development, data pushing and marketing. As a user, I can't wait to see the results.
Congrats to the Milo team.