<story><title>The email I received from Google in 2007 when they wanted to buy Zlio  </title><url>http://www.berrebi.org/2012/11/07/the-email-i-received-from-google-in-2007-when-they-wanted-to-buy-zlio/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nugget</author><text>Some of these comments confuse me.  What do you expect an m&amp;#38;a email to read like?  Having been through a bunch of acquisitions, that email is par for the course, especially for a (presumably) smaller acquisition.  You have an internal product sponsor who asks for basic financial info, asks for a price, has clearly laid out next steps and the process, and wants to start immediately.  All positive for a first step.  Some of the best corp dev guys I know have the worst grammar and email manners and to focus on that as a weakness is ridiculous...as long as they can approve a wire transfer, who cares?  Some people are Youtube and have Eric layering sweet sugary syrup on their Pancakes whilst they discuss the beautiful synergies of a monster deal, but most of the time, the startup CEO is hustling it across the finish line.</text></comment>
<story><title>The email I received from Google in 2007 when they wanted to buy Zlio  </title><url>http://www.berrebi.org/2012/11/07/the-email-i-received-from-google-in-2007-when-they-wanted-to-buy-zlio/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>citizens</author><text>&amp;#62; &quot;For the little story, Zlio, became blacklisted/sandboxed by Google 6 months after…. It killed the company…&quot;&lt;p&gt;This is only speculation, but it looks like zlio.com was sandboxed/blacklisted because of rampant spamming. 4 out of the top 5 referring domains are porn sites (about 150k links).&lt;p&gt;Source:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/refdomains/subdomains/zlio.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/refdomains/subdomains/zlio.c...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>