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Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:04:30 +0000

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Wed, 21 May 2008 15:37:14 +0000

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By: The Burningsoul’s Blog » Blog Archive » The Year In Deals (2007 Edition)

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:24:46 +0000

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Just a random blog ! — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:59:24 +0000

[...] We’ve seen a cadre of other startups cater to this crowd for big payoffs in the past. Wikia reportedly purchased ArmchairGM for $2 million. Time and Sports Illustrated acquired FanNation and paid about $25 million for a 40% stake its parent company. Rivals allegedly sold for a whopping $100 million. [...]

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By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:26:35 +0000

I pesonally worked for a short while at Rivals.com and continue to stay in touch with several people who both own and work or worked at Rivals while I was there. I would vouch for just about everyone there including Shannon.

Rivals.com was a debt free company and is growing at a incredibly fast rate. Their e-commerce division will be the fastest growing segment in the coming years. The subsciptions and revenue model is spotless.

That being said I have to say that I think Rivals.com was worth far more than 100 million. Yahoo signed a great deal and will profit very quickly from the current cashflow and growth ahead. I understand why they sold but I think they had better options available.

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By: Omadsense

Omadsense — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:44:59 +0000

I don’t know – this is all starting to sound reminiscent of the DOT.com bubble burst time. Instead of investors, it’s now online companies gobbling up everything with no real picture of how to make it all work together or profit from it?
It’s more of a race to see who can acquire more…..

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:25:20 +0000

Another example of Web consolidation and winner-take-all markets.

The Net is not purely competitive markets!

By: Butler

Butler — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:38:55 +0000

Well yahoo might have actually got things right this timje. They’ve bought something that actually has revenue according to the info stated above. Plus they’ll save tons of cash in the tech backend. The content is good and very focused which helps in the old ad sale department. Not a bad deal if all the numbers are correct.

By: Concrete Stain

Concrete Stain — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:39:35 +0000

100 Million; way too much for yahoo to be buying this weak company.

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By: Waco

Waco — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:54:12 +0000

100 million dallars for “that” site ! You’re kidding right? I’m in the wrong business

By: sean percival

sean percival — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:28:40 +0000

commenting after reading post title only:

WOW only 100 million for google and microsoft! What a steal

By: emil

emil — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:32:31 +0000

I am in China and i can not access to rivals.com too~!I thought it was banned by GFW(wtf?even a sports site could be banned………………..crap,i despise those cock-block-minded GFW mother fuckers)Now i must say i was wrong.hahahaha

By: Broken secrets.

Broken secrets. — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:57:48 +0000

Too much risk bet. $100 million dollar is lot of money to give away.
yahoo could fall for $ 4.00 a shares I think…. Maybe 10-30 years.

Try Alexa data
on chart type Rivals.com versus Techcrunch.com.

By: dx-xel

dx-xel — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:50:45 +0000

yeahh..me too..I still cannot access rivals.com..

By: Wes

Wes — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:28:22 +0000

I still cant access the site Bart. I get the error: Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at http://www.rivals.com. Maybe the problem is on my end.

By: Bart

Bart — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:12:03 +0000

Mark and Wes, you are both full of it. The site is up and running fine and has been all night.