I'm not proposing that VCs or some company act as the acquirer. I'm proposing that these companies merge their teams and traffic and resources 'equitably' and keep working toward the goal but with greater momentum. Kind of a 'hackers co-op'.
Startups do too. The founders started their company precisely because they didn't want their product to be averaged together with a bunch of others.
I have never heard that as a reason someone started a company. People start companies because they want to have control and impact and work on interesting things and have more ownership.
I just wonder if it might be interesting to combine a team that's working on online collaboration, for instance, with another that's working on video sharing and a third that is building a community of some sort. Think 37Signals but from the bottom up.
Hmm, that might be one of the key skills of VCs..
