4 reasons mergers and acquisitions are doomed to fail

I got pinged by Quora this week with the question, “Why do acquisitions kill startups and apps?” I responded, but I find this question so annoying that I want to address it again here. Why I find this annoying is that while acquisitions generally destroy the acquired company they don’t have to. A lot of jobs and value are lost because executives don’t seem to get this.The most annoying acquisition this century was the Palm acquisition by HP. It seemed they actually had a