I’m very excited to announce the acquisition of DropSend, our web app for sending large files. The buyer is Webminds, Inc.
How much?
Can’t say, I’m afraid. One thing I’ve learned about acquisitions is that you can’t go blabbing about all the figures. It’s really against my nature to be secretive with numbers, but sometimes you just need to. However, needless to say, we’re very happy about the whole situation.
What’s next?
DropSend really needed a new home. A company that had the time to look after it properly: market it, improve it and fix small bugs. I couldn’t be happier and I’m excited to see it grow. I’m going to write another post about everything we’ve learned about selling a web app - all the pitfalls, struggles and lessons learned. It should be quite helpful for anyone out there thinking about putting their app on the chopping block.
(CC Chapman, thanks for the photo.)
Anthony Williams
September 18th, 2008 at 11:50 am
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Hey Ryan,
Are you sure Pierre’s website is the one you linked to (webminds.com) because that looks an awful lot like a crapware site to me.
Cheers,
Anthony
Jean-Baptiste
September 18th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
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Hi Ryan,
congrats, this is a great news, some kind of a tiny new start as you let your baby go !
Hope we’ll have some time to talk about that at FOWA, I’ll send you a mail soon because I’d love to demo you a few things ;)
Have a nice day,
Jean-Baptiste from Paris
Ryan
September 18th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
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@Anthony - Webminds isn’t ‘crapware’ whatsoever. It’s a nice set of tools to help you clean up your PC.
@Jean-Baptiste - Thanks! Look forward to seeing you at FOWA.
Anthony Williams
September 18th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
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@Ryan: Apologies - cursory glances and quick-to-judge comments make me look like an idiot!
David Myers
September 18th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
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Congratulations! I was waiting for this post after I saw your twitter update a while back.
Jason
September 19th, 2008 at 4:29 am
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Congrats Ryan and team! Keep up the awesome work!
Stefan Fountain
September 19th, 2008 at 11:41 am
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Congrats Ryan, I hope Pierre will take to DropSend the next level.
Philip Wilkinson
September 19th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
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Brilliant news Ryan - really pleased for you and the team. Nice one.
Ryan
September 19th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
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Thanks everyone!
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September 19th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
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[…] Bath’s most prolific Web 2.0 publicity machine, Carsonified, is on the cusp of its transition from being a boring old web applications company to a sexy, self-consciously trendy web events outfit, after finally selling off its original app, DropSend. The deal should come as a relief to stuntmeister-in-chief Ryan Carson - after all, it was a mere two years ago that he first started hawking the poor blighter around. […]
Max Shanly
September 20th, 2008 at 8:02 am
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I take it that the first beer is on you then Ryan!?
Max
Jack Franklin
September 21st, 2008 at 8:14 am
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Congratulations Ryan & Co!
Stewart Townsend
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:17 pm
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Congratulations, sometimes its time to focus on your core elements and let someone else carry on the momentum of something you care about still, but havent got the time to support. So well done and see you all in a few weeks..
pdr tools
September 25th, 2008 at 3:08 am
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between this and working with techcrunch.. you should be expecting some jealousy. I think your doing a great job! good business is good business
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September 29th, 2008 at 11:08 am
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[…] I’m a little late to this, but it is worth noting that events guru Ryan Carson - co-founder of the Carsonified conference and training company which does the rocking FOWA - recently sold his web app DropSend, some two years after putting it on the block. […]
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[…] Whilst commenting on this post about the current state of global economic markets and how it has influenced spending online, I remembered a little something… A while back Carsonified announced the sale of their web app - DropSend - which didn’t really make major headlines, but seemed a very successful acquisition nonetheless (even though no figures were published). […]