http://venturebeat.disqus.com/News about Tech, Business and InnovationenThu, 19 Apr 2007 09:42:11 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2007/04/18/roundup-funnyordie-stumbleupon-sale-googles-latest-and-more/#comment-14674463<p>It doesn't affect the sales price. It's the other way around. The sales price is extremely lucrative for the company, precisely because it raised such little capital.</p>Matt MarshallThu, 19 Apr 2007 09:42:11 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2007/04/18/roundup-funnyordie-stumbleupon-sale-googles-latest-and-more/#comment-14674462<p>why should the amount of capital they took affect the sale price? To me, it should be based off of an EBITDA or revenue multiple, along w/ cash on hand, and judging by how much projected growth is ahead of them. So what if they took $100k or $20MM.</p>WTFThu, 19 Apr 2007 09:39:12 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2007/04/18/roundup-funnyordie-stumbleupon-sale-googles-latest-and-more/#comment-14674461<p>That's fair, Lee, but if StumbleUpon is really among the top 25 hottest Web 2.0 sites (see <a href="http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/top25-web2.html)" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/top25-web2.html)">http://www.ebizmba.com/arti...</a>, and showing all this momentum, a sale of a mere $40M isn't exactly encouraging for the 500 other Web 2.0 companies out there. In StumbleUpon's case, it's a great price, though, when you consider how little capital they took.</p>Matt MarshallThu, 19 Apr 2007 00:17:41 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2007/04/18/roundup-funnyordie-stumbleupon-sale-googles-latest-and-more/#comment-14674460<p>For a long time, I have believed that <a href="http://sramanamitra.com/blog/313" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://sramanamitra.com/blog/313">eBay should have spent money on advertising venue</a> oriented companies, and <a href="http://www.sramanamitra.com/blog/122" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.sramanamitra.com/blog/122">thought that the Skype acquisition was a stupid move</a>. Only now, it seems to me that eBay's leadership is coming to the same conclusion! <a href="http://www.sramanamitra.com/blog/900" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.sramanamitra.com/blog/900">Read the rest of my thesis.</a></p>Sramana MitraWed, 18 Apr 2007 23:16:54 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2007/04/18/roundup-funnyordie-stumbleupon-sale-googles-latest-and-more/#comment-14674459<p>sorry not to harp - but $40 - $75 million for a site with 6 million page views "is not very high" come on are you kidding - i dont know their revenues but it sounds like they are not making much money less than $1,000,000 and probably much less per year based upon how you said they serve ads.</p><p>which means at that price range they are selling the company from anywhere from 45x to 100+x revenues since when is that not a good price and a big sale.</p><p>i dont mean to harp but the adjectives sv journos use really annoy me since becasue you really overhype - you think this site should be worth much more than that please explain.</p><p>i mean this in a constructive way so i apologize in advance for the tone but i am curious as to your justification the site should be worth much more.</p>leeWed, 18 Apr 2007 20:55:04 -0000