[PeterWhittaker]

This is an excellent idea. In fact, I'd love to see this expanded into a complete dataset of acquisitions with at least the following data: major subject area (e.g., email, storage, etc.), year founded, year bought, amount bought for, number of total staff after one year, revenue after one year, number of total staff at acquisition, revenue at acquisition).

This could be useful to detect broader M&A trends by subject area. (Which is one possible way to decide on a business - by likelihood of M&A exit - not necessarily a great way, but worth thinking about.)

[ramoq]

My next article will be on current state of un-acquired email startups. I'll cover funding information, employee count, year founded. The funding information alone would be quite useful.

As a side note: I predict that we'll see a significant increase in email startups in the next 2 years.