I view an acquisition like buying a house.

You can inspect it forever, but until you spend your first night there, you don’t know how it is. The foundation could be there, but a great choice in paint could add so much for the space. In March, when we acquired Orderbot, a 20-person order management system based in Vancouver, we were looking for our “dream home,” a partner that would be comfortable today, energize our work lives and pay dividends into the future.

It was our first acquisition. Here’s how we went about it.

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