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- Silicon Alley Insider's startup index: Click bait? Nah. It's tip bait
- Lists have never done much for me--especially financial lists. It's financial porn: Forbes' most wealthy people; the Fortune 500; 10 mutual funds you must have now and a few hundred other lists. And now Silicon Alley Insider has launched a startup valuation index that's bound to be a conversation starter....
- Tags: Silicon, Valuation, Financial, SAI, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Can LinkedIn CEO's hot air inflate the company's valuation?
- Can LinkedIn CEO's hot air inflate the company's valuation?Why notIt's a Web 2.0 bonanza! Everything must go!Why the hate on every social network?Jesus H. Christ, every day another ZDNet "news" article about how Facebook or LinkedIn sucks. People find them useful and they're rampantly successful; what is the...
- Tags: Investment, LinkedIn, Facebook, hot air, valuation
- Discussion threads 2007-11-28
- Can LinkedIn CEO's hot air inflate the company's valuation?
- LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye told Fortune that it would take a "helluva lot" more than $1 billion to get the company to sell. Rumors have been flying about News Corp. being interested in LinkedIn, but the valuation could be sticky. Why not tell Fortune you're worth more,...
- Tags: Valuation, LinkedIn, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- Google: $900 price targets and the 'most basic element of Internet life'
- Google: $900 price targets and the 'most basic element of Internet life'But wait!! But wait!!! This is all based on Linux and users do NOT likeLinux. It is only for nerds that use the command line and recompile the kernel.Silly in the extreme...I hope I am able to catch it...
- Tags: Investment, Linux, software-as-a-service, Google Inc., valuation
- Discussion threads 2007-11-20
- SaaS Summit reactions to Cisco buying WebEx
- SaaS Summit reactions to Cisco buying WebExGreat news for SaaS companiesPhill,This couldn't be better news for aspiring Startups looking to raise money for their SaaS offerings. Investors are always interested in good valuation propositions, and SaaS seems to carry a pretty premium. WebEx is not the first SaaS company to...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Investment, investor, Cisco Systems Inc., SaaS Summit, valuation, software-as-a-service, WebEx Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-16
- MySpace + Facebook = $14 billion?
- Is it irresponsible of CEOs of public corporations to tout seemingly unattainable valuations of corporate properties? Are corporate Directors harming the companies they advise by publicly declaring outsized self-valuations?Facebook board member Peter Thiel said last week: “The sites college-aged users make it worth $8 billion or more, as much...
- Tags: MySpace, Facebook, valuation, shareholder
- Blog posts 2006-12-16
- Exclusive: Glam.com Samir Arora on new media valuations
- Glam Media reflects an aspirational women’s lifestyle experience, Samir Arora, chairman and founder, told me in announcing the company’s $18.5 million series C venture capital funding earlier this week (see "Glam.coms fashionable $18.5 million").Arora also shared with me the aspirational business development “story” behind Glam Media, which he says is...
- Tags: Glam Media, Print, Social Media, Content, ecommerce, Facebook, Marketing, Brands, Social Web, MySpace, Culture, Business Models, Web 2.0, Media, Advertising
- Blog posts 2006-12-16
- MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Digg = $17.7 billion 'voodoo exuberance'?
- Ronald Regan was called out for “voodoo economics” and Alan Greenspan called out “irrational exuberance.” Is today’s fixation on fixing unsubstantiated exuberant economic values to Web 2.0 free-to-users, bandwidth consuming, copyright infringement plagued, lowest common denominator, online Generation Y social network darlings “voodoo exuberance”?The “exuberant voodoo” record: MySpace: $15 billion...
- Tags: Facebook, valuation
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- Open source won't doom traditional enterprise software
- Last week SandHill.com published a column by Guy Smith of Silicon Strategies Marketing, titled "Is Enterprise Software Doomed?," suggesting that open source will cause traditional enterprise software to become extinct. Several member of the "Enterprise Irregulars," a group bloggers of which I am a member covering the software...
- Tags: open source
- Blog posts 2006-08-08
- Median startup valuation at $15.2 mln in 2005
- The median valuation of venture-funded start-up businesses soared to $15.2 mln in 2005, from $10 mln in 2003, according to VentureOne.
- Tags: valuation
- Blog posts 2006-03-20
- Trafficdetector (exe)
- The Trafficdetector measures your online-time and the dataflow traffic while you are surfing. It calculates the upcoming costs for the connection. All data will be shown in a little mini-window look above right, which is optional. You won't loose the overview over your free-hours or free-traffic of your provider and...
- Tags: Valuation, Connection, Investment, Finance
- Software downloads 2005-12-06
- eBay-Skype: Three VoIP entrepreueur views
- eBay-Skype: Three VoIP entrepreueur viewsSkype Ebay Deal Far Visioned Power MoveSkype Ebay Deal Far Visioned Power MoveSkype and Ebay see a deal that will Far out-vision some of the best deals seen in our new marketplace. This is more than the purchase of a great tech business. More than an...
- Tags: INTERNET, Branding, Strategy, VoIP, eBay Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., valuation
- Discussion threads 2005-09-14
- InvesTraK (exe)
- Track short coverings, mutual funds, 401k accounts, and general bonds. Create many instant securities reports to assist you for example cost basis reports FIFO, holding valuation reports, rate return reports ROR, and commission reports. The user can create unlimited multiple accounts. Create charts and graphs and even track your brokerage...
- Tags: Valuation, Commission, Retirement Plans, Investment, 401(k), Mutual Funds, Sales Force Management, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Sales
- Software downloads 2005-06-09
- Real Estate Appraisals: A PDF Proof of Concept for Electronic valuation Reports
- The real estate, construction and mortgage services industries make up about 25% of the US economy. Each has a role in the building, sale and resale, and financing of nearly 8 million new and existing homes each year excluding refinancing or secondary financing. Adobe Systems has collaborated with the Institute...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Valuation, Adobe PDF, Appraisal, Appraisers, Investment, Real Estate, Finance, Business Operations
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Q1 2005 valuations for venture-financed startups up 24%
- The Fenwick & West Venture Capital Barometer showed a 24% average price increase for companies receiving venture capital financing in Q1 2005 compared to such companies previous financing round. This increase was lower than the 36% increase recorded in Q4 2004, but Q4 2004 was our largest increase to...
- Tags: Q4 2004, Q1 2005
- Blog posts 2005-05-24
- Use of Transition Matrices in Risk Management and valuation
- Value at Risk VaR modelling and transition matrices have gained acceptance in use for corporate and sovereign portfolio valuation. With the emergence of the Basel Accord and a deeper curiosity surrounding capital calculation methodologies, transition matrices are gaining interest as a tool for retail portfolio valuation and capital allocation. Fair...
- Tags: Valuation, Small And Medium Enterprise, Risk Management, Fair Isaac, Smb/Sme, Investment, Finance
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Open source suppliers and demand
- Open source suppliers and demandEconomics of OSS shift costs to the integration side increased investment[i]A similar dynamic exists in software. I've always been amazed at the rates charged by SAP contractors or Oracle DBAs. These rates only make sense in markets where the up front cost of software is very...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Benefits, Raymond, valuation, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Adobe PhotoShop, software, Oracle Corp., cheese, developer, Photoshop User, open source
- Discussion threads 2004-05-19
Additional Resources
- Yahoo's Yang gives his 'don't crush our stock we're ok' address
- Yahoo's Yang gives his 'don't crush our stock we're ok' addressLet the pigs have their lunchas they will do anyway (it's only a correction from a rise due to short term greed, so it's kind of their own vomit that they're eating), then everybody who isn't convinced that Steve Ballmer...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, knowledge economy, Yahoo! Inc., Yang, stock, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- NetSuite turns into battlground among analysts; High hopes for OneWorld
- On the surface NetSuite's first quarter was pretty good. The company beat its earnings targets by a penny a share and revenue was better than expected. However, the on-demand ERP software provider's deferred revenue fell short of what analysts expected. As Credit Suisse analyst Philip Winslow, who...
- Tags: Revenue, Analyst, NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, OneWorld, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Road signs for physicians
- According to BioMed Central, French researchers have developed a new iconic drug information system inspired by road signs. This icon system is named VCM, short for 'Visualisation des Connaissances Médicales' in French, which means 'Visualization of Medical Knowledge.' Like road signs, the VCM graphical language uses a small set of...
- Tags: Physician, BioMed Central, Icon, VCM, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
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