Over the past year, there has been the constant buzz about Facebook perhaps being sold to Yahoo or another huge company. It would certainly not be the first time that a start-up company that had become huge would be sold to a large corporation. What I don't understand, though, is how people can begin and raise a dream, bring it from nothing to something, and then sell it. How can any amount of money give value to a dream?
I left a club in college for which I designed the website, and it still pinches me whenever any changes are made to the website, even though I left the club voluntarily. It's because there is a non-rational part of me that feels that I own the website, even though it's the club that does so. If I cannot part with a website that I designed, which is about as virtual as it gets, how can people not only part but even sell their dream, dreams that take longer than bits and pieces of the freshman year of college building?