Nashville’s PodCast Alley acqhired: According to SiliconBeat, Nashville-based Podcast Alley and its founder, Chris McIntyre, have been acq-hired by Adam Curry and Ron Bloom’s PodShow, its first acquisition since receiving $8.5 million in first round backing from the ubber-VC firms Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia. McIntyre will move to San Francisco, according to SiliconBeat.
For those keeping track, this is the second significant “acq-hire” of a Nashville RSS-centric business. The first was the NewsGator-FeedDemon deal.
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September 6th, 2005 at 9:33 pm
The fact that you tagged this with acqhire is testament enough to the power of the Internet, you realize, right?
September 6th, 2005 at 9:57 pm
Actually, Tom it’s testament to my shameless campaign to gain fame one day as the guy who coined the word “acqhire”"
September 7th, 2005 at 8:46 am
Alright, alright. That too.