Anyone know where that puts the post-money valuation on the company now? Please send me an email or enlighten us in comments.
Update: Without knowing what percentage of the company has been sold, it is difficult to come up with a valuation. But as a point of comparison, family-networking site Geni got a $100-million valuation when it raised its second round of $10 million earlier this year. It is arguable that a media company like the Huffington Post would command a lower valuation than a pure Web company like Geni. Why does any of this matter? One rumor making the rounds both in Washington and blogging circles (so take this with a double-dose of salt) has it that as soon as next year’s elections are over, the Huffington Post is going to try to sell itself or (if the markets are willing) maybe even IPO.
Here’s the logic behind such speculation: As the election cycle heats up, the Huffington Post should see its traffic soar. Look for interviews with all the presidential candidates as they try to figure out new media, and look also for campaign and other advertising dollars to follow. What better time to try to cash out than right after the election-cycle peak?
Update 2: Former Wall Street Internet analyst Henry Blodget estimates that the HuffPost is worth $60 million.
It is an awesome site!!
Their traffic numbers look pretty good, and that is a valuable audience going to the site.
http://www.quan...fingtonpost.com
Perhaps the better question is how much is Techcrunch worth? Anyone care to speculate? Be sure to calculate profit from TC40 and international sites…
30MM post.
How much techcrunch worth then? $50 Mil?
Lets have Erick Schonfeld do the math on this too…
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how about this question…
“how long does it take to post videos of TC40 ??”
strange, powerset used to have a video on tc40, now that’s gone, are you all actually going backwards here ?
Alec Baldwin is one of their writers: enough said.
http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com
Nice post.
How does Quantcast compare to Alexa and Compete in true statistics?
@Rob,
Alexa can be very skewed, and compete tends to be decent. With quantcast you can see that huffingtonpost is “quantified” so the stats are supposed to be dead on!
I was trying to compare all 3 and that made it easier
don’t you mean to say, “given this recent funding and potential valuation in the 40 to 70M range, what might techcrunch be worth to this same investment audience?”….
huffington won’t vanish after the elections….there are always issues to explore, and dynamic world issues (politics, global economy et al) are universally more appealing than narrowly focused blog networks like tech-only, science-only and so on…just my opinion, but then again there’s a reason why the wall street journal isn’t called the silicon valley technology times…and there’s a reason why people drive ten miles and pay 5 bucks for the sunday ny times but wouldn’t take a free copy of mass high tech even if you threw it at ‘em…
Saw her in person yesterday and got a chance to say hello.
She was on a panel of Advertising heads in New York at the MIXX Expo – discussing the effect of social media on Politics
It’s worth bajillion dollars… just like facebook.
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> What better time to try to cash out than right after the election-cycle peak?
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Why not before? When traffic will be at its highest and not have the post-election dip?
I’m guessing the traffic trends would be priced in, sort of like buying retail stocks before the holidays.
I look forward to the day when individual writers have their own IPOs. What does HuffPo really provide anyway? Group healthcare plans for its writers?
I highly doubt HuffPo is going to go public…although, these are crazy times for finance so I guess anything is possible!
“I look forward to the day when individual writers have their own IPOs.”
I’m guessing that was said tongue-in-cheek…but it’s an interesting thought.
Would there be a board of directors making all the decisions for the writer? I can see it now: “The Board has decided that your next book will be on ______.” Kind of seems like it might make a hilarious short film though!
All in all, though, if artists (granted many ‘writers’ today are hardly artists) were beholden to bottom lines and shareholders, I think it would definitely be fair to claim we have past the point of the ‘death of art’.
This seems to be back in the media, following HuffPo’s $25 million of new capital in November and a recent article that alleged HuffPo to be worth $2 mm….
In the past, sites like Tree Hugger, Ars Technica, Weblogs Inc and others have been purchased providing us with general insight that big media companies are (were?) willing to pay something close to $0.5 – $2 per monthly page view. If we assume a conservative number of $0.5, we would end up with a mid-2008 valuation of at least $75 million…
Here’s my full logic to it:
http://www.tren...gton-post-worth