Finding Someone To Manage Selling a Software Company? 165
rrrrw22 writes "My company has spent the last year developing a framework for creating games on Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter. While we had originally planned to release the product to the public and take a percentage of the revenue, we have realized that we can make more money by selling the application to a funded company entering the social gaming space. Our problem is we don't have many other contacts in the social gaming space and would like to find someone to manage selling the company for us (in exchange for a percentage of the sale.) Where can we go about finding someone with the skills and contacts to sell a product like this? What experiences have others had trying to sell a company that we can learn from?"
Seriously? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Translation to english (Score:3, Funny)
VC funding doesn't count.
Re:Step 1 (Score:5, Funny)
Except the article was not much of an advertisement. It didn't even link to a website. Not that I blame the original poster for keeping this information close to his chest. After all, contact information, in this particular case, could be invaluable.
Apparently a random group of hackers has created a "framework" for making social games. They don't have any games that demonstrate the power of this framework, but it is an awesome framework nonetheless. After several man-years of work on this framework the hackers have decided that the best way to capitalize on their work is to sell their software to someone in the social gaming community that doesn't have a competing framework already. Since they don't know anyone in the social gaming community, much less someone in the social gaming community that is in need of an untested but still awesome game framework, they want to find a third party willing to sell their software on commission.
Yeah, I would want my name on that advertisement.
Re:Why not (Score:5, Funny)
1) you can block the updates from showing.
2) they're YOUR friends, motherfucker. stop associating with idiots?
Re:Perfect example... (Score:4, Funny)
I see this as a perfect example of people trying to base a business model on trying to convince people they need your product rather then making a product they already want
SAP seem to do pretty well on that business model...
Re:Why not (Score:1, Funny)
2) they're YOUR friends, motherfucker. stop associating with idiots?
Call me a cynic, but that would leave little people to associate with.
What, midgets aren't idiots?