Perhaps my last post on the Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo was premature. It seems like Yahoo’s board is determined to reject that offer and hope for something sweeter. If Microsoft doesn’t sweeten the deal and I was a Yahoo shareholder (I’m not) I think I’d be down at Yahoo’s HQ with a pitchfork and torch. There are plenty of different opinions about whether a deal is good for Microsoft. Not so many about whether it’s good for Yahoo shareholders!

But enough about high-finance and giant companies, I’m returning to my series on Form Abandonment and in this post I’ll talk about what happens AFTER you seal the deal. Because what you do after the deal is often even important than what you did before.

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