Fighting Open Source Competition May Be Foolish
J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news.
Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995), and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More
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We wrote about Nuvvo, a brave startup taking on an open source competitor, last January. However, Nuvvo is now up for sale. And it may soon be entering the DeadPool, depsite what the founders wrote on the Nuvvo blog:
This does not mean Nuvvo is shutting down. Our many thousands of users around the world are dear to us and we will keep the service going for the forseable future.
For a summary of recent small sales, many on ebay, see this post.
