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The Startup Game has shared six interesting tips on how to be a part of the massive list of Google acquisitions. And I believe these two are the best for they resound what an excellent startup worthy of million dollars paycheck should do:

Don’t focus on getting acquired. That’s like being a single woman who desperately wants to get married. Of course you want it to happen, but 99% of the time if you purposely try to get acquired (or married), it won’t. “Stick to your knitting,” says Paul Graham, a founding partner of Y Combinator, the startup factory that funded Zenter. “The way to get acquired really fast is to not focus on it. If people get the impression that you want to get bought, you won’t.”

Instead, focus on the user. This is possibly the single most important thing for entrepreneurs to remember. “Every startup that dies fails to do this,” Graham says. “A lot of startups focus on their competitors or lawsuits, but what really kills startups is if users think it’s boring. It’s a much quieter and dangerous reason, but if users don’t care about your product, that will just kill a company.”

Check out the other moves that Zenter focused on to deserve that coveted Google acquisition.

Tags: Zenter, Google acquisition, startup

Online collaboration tools? There’s Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Gmail, GTalk, Google Calendar and all. What? You’re not yet satisfied?

Fine because there’s a newly acquired technology that will further enhance online collaboration - its the online slide presentations service from Zenter.

Zenter is one of the startup businesses that Y Combinator has funded.

TechCrunch has it that Zenter will be performing more as a social tool for people who’d like to share their slide presentations - a task that seems to be making this new Google service an excellent Powerpoint killer?!

Tags: Zender, Y Combinator, online collaboration, PowerPoint

If you’re curious as to what other acquisitions Google had in the past, I mean the companies it has turned into either gold or trash, (come on not all Google acquisitions had become better services…) a WebMasterWorld forum member enumerated them. Here are those who have turned into gold in my opinion:

Urchin Software

Pyra Labs

Applied Semantics

Can you guess what Google product or service they’ve become or they’re currently called?

Here are more of the services that are included in the list of Google Acquisitions.

via PinoyTechBlog

Tags: Google acquisitions, WebMasterWorld

The official Google blog has officially announced its acquisition of FeedBurner. There’s even an audio file of Google’s press call with Dick Costolo, FeedBurner’s CEO.

The announcement’s entitle Adding More Flare. Now is that for FeedBurner or for Google’s advantage?

If you’re a true-blue Google fan, you already know that for $100 million, Google has just acquired FeedBurner, the most popular startup company offering RSS feed service.

Here you can follow what’s mentioned about this acquisition before and after:

The rumor about the Google FeedBurner acquisition was mentioned at Mashable.

The Good Part of the Acquisition:

FeedBurner will enhance the Google Analytics and Google Reader products and its relationship with bloggers?. - SearchEngineJournal

The Bad Part of the Acquisition:

Google ads on RSS feeds. - Vecosys

More on those who are not fine with this acquisition because of reasons like unreliability of Google when it comes to monetizing content using AdSense.

Now for a more in-depth pros and cons of this acquisition, take it away, Andy Beard.

I’m all for the Google Analytics - Feed stats integration because it will definitely help in knowing more how your subscribers behave if Google Analytics will come in the scene. But the AdSense part on feeds? I thought we already know that people who knows how to use feed readers are ad-blind? So what’s next, Eric?

Tags: FeedBurner acquisition, AdSense on RSS, RSS feed monetization