Edelman Acquires Grassroots Enterprises
November 4th, 2009
The only survivor of the political dot-com boom that I know of has finally been gobbled up — nothing’s eternal in business, my friends. If I remember correctly, back in the late ’90s Grassroots burned through a few tens of millions of investor dollars before reinventing itself as an advocacy tool provider and consulting firm. Only to disappear at last into the Edelman maw…let’s hope they got a good buy-out.
– cpd
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2 Comments Add your own
1. B | November 6th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Did you know your RSS feed has ads for the RGA in it?
2. cpd | November 6th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Nice! Be sure to click on ‘em with wild abandon…
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