How to navigate and/or survive your acquihire.

As I wrote up the story of SocialCode’s acquihire of the Digg team, I had to keep editing out meta-commentary about the process. It’s hard to tell a coherent story when you keep slipping into tips and observations, so I pulled them out and collected them here.

This post is focused on talent acquisitions, sometimes called “acquihires”, where an acquiring company wants to acquire another company’s team. I’ll focus on a typical Silicon Valley acquihire, which focus on acquiring the engineering...