When that deadline hits, you’ve got to post a story quickly. Use this simple dotcom acquisition news story form to generate your article without having to make any calls.
8 thoughts on “[STARTUP] gets acquired by [BIGDOTCOM] for $[LOTSOFMONEY]”
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Doesn’t work. 😉
I broke it for literally about 3 minutes…you must’ve hit it at just the wrong moment. Sorry, Aaron.
Matt
Great fun. I’ve enjoyed sending off the output from this blog.
Funny stuff. You should convert the form to a POST so we can send the results to friends via URL.
Excellent idea. Done.
Matt
Extraordinary! You made my day.
Classic.
One glitch. If you have a person’s name with a single tick mark (like the one below) it gets escaped in the output with a backslash.
http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/dotcom-startup-acquired-result.php?STARTUP=CrapOnDemand&STARTUP2=FecesLive%21&STARTUP3=OnAShingleOnline&FOUNDER1=Thou+San+Dflushes&FOUNDER2=Choc+O%27Haulic&LOCATION=Cow+Pie+Valley&EXOTICLOCATION=Fecal+Testing+Labs&LARGEDOTCOM=Stuffforce.com&LARGEDOTCOM2=Minisoft&BUZZNOUN1=Office+2.0&BUZZNOUN2=SAAS&BUZZNOUN3=AJAX&BUZZVERB1=share&BUZZVERB2=post&BLOGGER=Brown+Oser&SCHOOL=Farmers+U&YEAR=1921&PRICE=1.6b&GARAGE=birdcage&BAND=Weird+Al+Yankovic