Comments on: StumbleUpon (may be) For Sale: $50 million

By: blogflow #8 | Web Produktmanagement

blogflow #8 | Web Produktmanagement — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:42:32 +0000

[...] StumbleUpon sollen angeblich $50 Mio. geboten worden sein. Ich mag das Produkt ja und ich benutze es auch manchmal. Aber hey. Hype! Hype! [...]

By: eBay kauft StumbleUpon – mitten im Relaunch || kosmar || Blog

Thu, 31 May 2007 08:30:30 +0000

[...] hier aus nicht zu übersehen. Erste Finanzierungsrunde, regelmäßige Erwähnung bei Techcrunch, erste Gerüchte, der Launch der Wii-fähigen Videosite stumble.tv und dann wurde auch schon der große Relaunch in [...]

By: eBay на път да погълне StumbleUpon « Web 2.0 News

eBay на път да погълне StumbleUpon « Web 2.0 News — Wed, 09 May 2007 21:13:02 +0000

[...] нова интернет страница StumbleUpon се спекулира от миналият ноември. Репортер на Wall Street Journal цитира “вътрешен човек” [...]

By: Deal RoundUp for May 9: StumbleUpon; Rabble; VideoJug » EPR Network Blog

Deal RoundUp for May 9: StumbleUpon; Rabble; VideoJug » EPR Network Blog — Wed, 09 May 2007 13:38:13 +0000

[...] from the Wall Street Journal. The high flying startup has been rumored to be in acquisition talks since November . The Wall Street Journal report quotes an insider saying that no final agreement has been reached [...]

By: eBay Close to Acquiring StumbleUpon

eBay Close to Acquiring StumbleUpon — Wed, 09 May 2007 11:35:49 +0000

[...] high flying startup has been rumored to be in acquisition talks since November [...]

By: eBay and StumbleUpon: don’t get it » mathewingram.com/work

eBay and StumbleUpon: don’t get it » mathewingram.com/work — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:40:51 +0000

[...] AOL, and that the company has signed a term sheet with eBay. The company has been the subject of acquisition rumours since November. Of course, there are no shortage of takeover-talks stories that don’t [...]

By: Lowdown on Spamming Social Media » Online Marketing Blog

Lowdown on Spamming Social Media » Online Marketing Blog — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:03:31 +0000

[...] 1. Prepare To Be Banned If used correctly social media can bring in great traffic to websites. Techcrunch noted that many startups receive a good portion of the traffic from StumbleUpon alone, and one entrepreneur even confirmed that the social browsing tool is responsible for 15% of his site’s traffic. Losing that kind of flow to your site can be seriously damaging. Social media sites have no problem with banning members who look suspicious. [...]

By: David Henderson’s Blog » Blog Archive » Stumbled Upon Scoble, Barnett, and TechCrunch

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:59:09 +0000

[...] StumbleUpon was recently rumored to be on the block for $50 million! But, If you dig into some of the comments on the TechCrunch post, StumbleUpon (may be) For Sale: $50 million, StumbleUpon’s achilles heel may be exposed. Mark Suster Stumbleupon certainly drives traffic to our website (www.koral.com); however, the conversion rate to actual trial customers is 0.91% versus 7-12.5% for most of our other referring sources. So we’re grateful for the brand awareness it creates but if people “stumble upon” your website that doesn’t mean that you are necessarily generating high quality leads. I think people interested in a topic (content management in our case) that self select themselves are clearly more valuable that “lurkers.” lenkov We are getting quite a big number of hits from SU, but less than 0.2% from them are actually going beyond the first page. [...]

By: StumbleUpon Launches Video Referral Site, StumbleVideo at Swiss Podcast Directory and Blog

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:46:33 +0000

[...] StumbleUpon has 1 million registered users in 139 countries, who “stumble” 2.2 million sites per day. The company was rumored to be for sale for $50 million last month but executives did not comment on that in our call on Wednesday. [...]

By: ray s

ray s — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:02:31 +0000

Well SU been a member for 2 yrs and YES what drama!Management is awful they never fix things the ratings of blogs are a sad joke wrong X ratings are very common there!I hope someone with business sense buys it!CH the mod of most the forums is a huge jerk,is never nice but they wont get rid of him,no people skills at all!Bans for no reason and is hide thread crazy on a power trip.The stumbling of sites and wishing for better owners is all that keeps me there.

By: Chris Carey

Chris Carey — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:14:42 +0000

BS to KMD
BTW
They are in talks with Google see noheat.com. No mystery.

By: KMD

KMD — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:25:16 +0000

SU is more of a social community than anything else. The drama that goes on in there is unbelievable. Cliques and cults and god knows what else. “Love” affairs, ludicrous flame wars and “hate” campaigns, hacking, spamming… People belong to SU for the social connection, NOT for the websites. Those are basically irrelevant to most users of SU.

By: Mi otro blog… » Blog Archive » Yahoo, Google, AOL y News Corp. van de compras

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:54:50 +0000

[...] En el capítulo de los rumores, destaca que News Corp. podría estar negociando para adquirir BubbleShare (servicio de compartición de fotos) y que según informa Techcrunch, StumbleUpon (servicio basado en una barra de herramientas para el IE o una extensión de Firefox y que guarda cierta similitud con digg) podría estar a la venta por 50 millones de dólares. [...]

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:46:09 +0000

StumbleUpon is one of those wickedly ingenius ideas. If they were shopping at $50 million and I had that sort of cash, I would snap them up in an instant. I think Google, Yahoo, Microsoft or any major search player would be very wise to snap them up and utilize them in their ranking algorithms. Though, eventually StumbleUpon may suffer the same sort of problems as Digg does with “group voting.”

By: JAC CU STOWE

JAC CU STOWE — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:38:56 +0000

I herd the Developer say it was all Hog Wash

By: Kman

Kman — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:01:28 +0000

I had never heard of this site until reading the story. After visiting the site, I bet Google could throw up a copy of this site, intergrate it within their google answers, add in a review system and have the same thing. Of course, on the other hand, what’s $50 million in aquistion costs to some of the big players.

By: IndianBytes.com

IndianBytes.com — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:31:07 +0000

StumbleUpon (may be) For Sale: $50 million…

Two sources have confirmed that the rapidly growing StumbleUpon recently approached at least one large Internet company to be acquired. The asking price was $50 million….

By: webpodge » Blog Archive » StumbleUpon - Are they worth $50 million?

webpodge » Blog Archive » StumbleUpon - Are they worth $50 million? — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:07:59 +0000

[...] That’s really the $50 million question that people are wondering. My experience with StumbleUpon is that it’s mainly used for traffic building for new websites. Just like digg benefits from the upteen bloggers that post their own articles (yes, yes, I’m done this and therefore plead guilty) StumbleUpon gains serious user content from the new startups that launch that submit their site to the database. So here are the Top 3 reasons for anyone thinking of acquiring StumbleUpon: [...]

By: Mapping The Web - Web 2.0 Commentary and Opinions » Web 2.0 Rumour Mill - Canadian Style

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:36:16 +0000

[...] Second up, we have StumbleUpon, an Alberta-based start-up which has relocated to the Valley. Reports indicate that the company recently approached at least one possible company to be acquired. The company is looking for $50 million. [...]

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:05:05 +0000

It’s true that SU visitors have much, much lower conversion rates then other visitors, because they are totally unqualified visitors. It actually reminds me of the early days of the web when people would often just visit anything and everything, even if they had no intention of actually using the service or getting more involved.

I posted that not to say that SU is good for business, but just to show that they are a force in web traffic, which is something you can’t deny. The value for investors is not in the traffic they deliver to other sites, but the control they have over people who like to surf the web. You can almost consider them like a browser company.

By: StumbleUpon For Sale? at The Blog Herald

StumbleUpon For Sale? at The Blog Herald — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:53:22 +0000

[...] According to TechCrunch, StumbleUpon may be up for sale for $50 million. [...]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:54:45 +0000

It is now a significant source of traffic for many startups (an entrepreneur recently told me that 15% of his traffic last week came from StumbleUpon) At What Should I Read Next? almost 10% of our traffic over the last three months has come from StumbleUpon, too.

By: StumbleUpon For Sale? | Marketing Pilgrim

StumbleUpon For Sale? | Marketing Pilgrim — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:54:07 +0000

[...] TechCrunch has heard whispers that StumbleUpon may be looking for someone to buy them for $50 million. The deal doesn’t appear to have been widely shopped – one potential acquirer said that they met with the company recently, but only to explore possible business development deals, and that an acquisition was not discussed. I spoke briefly with StumbleUpon CEO Garret Camp this afternoon but he refused to comment, saying “we do not comment on rumors.” Fair enough. [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:01:04 +0000

This is very interesting. Streampad has seen referrals from StumbleUpon increase greatly in the past three days. The pageviews are much lower than average as are the conversions. I wonder if StumbleUpon “tweaked” something in an attempt to drive up referrals?

By: dot-com blog | piše Nikola Vavić » Šta su startup projekti, da li će doći do pobune na YouTube i da li će StumbleUpon “uzeti” 50 miliona $

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:36:23 +0000

[...] Moguća prodaja kompanije StumbleUpon, cena 50 miliona $. [...]