Don Dodge thinks Yahoo’s 2003 acquisition of Overture was 8th worst billion dollar acquisition of an Internet company. I would probably put it at the top of my best billion dollar Internet acquisitions list (if I did keep such a list). Yahoo got Overture at a low valuation (about 2x revenue) and gave Yahoo major […]
Russell often writes pretty good blog posts, but parts of his rant against business model-less Web 2.0 startups is bad analysis. Not all media must be monetized by charging the consumer. Advertising enables an indirect, brand or lead-generation, revenue model. Notable examples, Google and Yahoo. With the demand for leads in the real estate/housing business, […]
Business is a good game - lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money. - Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari
Feld Thoughts: “Fundamentally, whenever you are thinking about supply and demand on the Internet, you have a math problem to solve. Effectively creating the drivers for both supply and demand – at the right price – and then figuring out how to turn it into money is hard – eBay, PayPal, and Google AdSense […]
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