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By: The Cost Of FriendFeed: Roughly $50 Million In Cash And Stock | Techdare

The Cost Of FriendFeed: Roughly $50 Million In Cash And Stock | Techdare — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:14:43 +0000

[...] was offering Twitter was apparently valued based on the ridiculous $15 billion valuation after Microsoft’s investment in October of 2007. The $6.5 billion common stock valuation seems much more reasonable. Too bad for [...]

By: The Cost Of FriendFeed: Roughly $50 Million In Cash And Stock | Design Website Blog

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:03:55 +0000

[...] was offering Twitter was apparently valued based on the ridiculous $15 billion valuation after Microsoft’s investment in October of 2007. The $6.5 common stock valuation seems much more reasonable. Too bad for [...]

By: The Cost Of FriendFeed: Roughly $50 Million In Cash And Stock

The Cost Of FriendFeed: Roughly $50 Million In Cash And Stock — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:43:05 +0000

By: Facebook Taps Into Hedge Funds For $500 Million More?

Facebook Taps Into Hedge Funds For $500 Million More? — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:16:08 +0000

[...] the conference call yesterday, Microsoft exec Kevin Johnson implied there might be other investors involved when he [...]

By: Rodney

Rodney — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:20:46 +0000

#72, you’ve made the most sense so far in this post.

Folks are so hyper happy to believe in all the Web 2.0 Soc Net. bull crap that has been circulating the web, that we tend to forget the it was in 2000.

Face is IT now..it won’t be beyond the next 2 years. The great thing they have going for them is that Zuck seems to be a capable strategic thinker, and facebook has been positioned well.

What we have to remember is that this is a fickle internet, and it doesn’t take much for the tide to change.

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:58:10 +0000

Ever wanting to please my fans, I have posted on this.
Just let me say, “a picture is worth a thousand words”.

http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com

By: Smiley

Smiley — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:33:44 +0000

Yea sure, google will someday get their own share of FB maybe 2008 or 09 and hey dont think that web 2.0 will ever crash it wont! More stuffs are coming out and better innovations over the internet so it is still stable and hey very soon, google will want some share of mycutegalaxy.com

By: micfo.com

micfo.com — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:24:49 +0000

Google might be watching out these development and some day we will come to know that they’ve deal with facebook.

By: Shams

Shams — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:57:32 +0000

Live blog is fine. I guess Techcrunch will earn more money, not because of the contents of the blogs but because of the no. of participants talking here. That’s a good succees for Michael Arrington. He could keep us engaged. Super!!

By: Krixxr

Krixxr — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:46:40 +0000

50 million users and (perhaps) 100 million $ rev = fifty cents per user. That is a whopping 30 Nepali Rupees or 2.4 Suaheli Rimbops. I hear Warren Buffet is also interested in investing.

By: Dheeraj Sultanian

Dheeraj Sultanian — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:37:38 +0000

It is surprising how quickly analysts forget the basics of first year business courses. The business life-cycle always has this “hyper-growth” curve before leveling off and declining. The reason people come back to facebook every other day is because more of their friends are joining every other day (and they get emails saying to come back to the site). Once they reach 200M members, what keeps the site sticky? At least MySpace is based around Music, which is really good at getting people to come back (ahem..APPLE). The valuation is always skewed during the hypergrowth phase. If anyone remembers 2000, Microsoft and Cisco were both worth over $500 B. They both went down in value over the last 7 years by over 1 GOOGLE.

The price MSFT paid is strategically high, to keep other investors out. Nobody is going to pay in at this valuation, and gives MSFT an opportunity to gain a buttload of advertisers trying the next new thing. They give Zuckerberg his “independence” while holding onto the puppet strings. This is going to be good…

By: facebook.blog.com >> Microsoft $240M investment...

facebook.blog.com >> Microsoft $240M investment... — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:52:59 +0000

facebook.blog.com >> Microsoft $240M investment……

What does Microsoft’s $240 million investment into Facebook mean?
The following posts provide a thorough review of the Microsoft/Facebook deal from many angles:…

By: John C. McClore

John C. McClore — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:23:47 +0000

Facebook valuation is closer to 500 Trillion IMHO.

By: MediaOutrage.com

MediaOutrage.com — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:27:45 +0000

Wow $15billion valuation. Looks like Tom and Chris De Wolf got ripped off and sold way too short for $580million. Is Facebook really that much better than Microsoft anyway? Or is this just the IT company that the media has selected to hype up? http://www.mediaoutrage.com

By: Chris R.

Chris R. — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:23:50 +0000

posts 56, 57, and 63 are made by the same person. This person is asian, I can tell by the grammar, and he is also obsessed with Bill Gates.

To that poster. ermmmm….. Gill Bates is a git. seriously. Get off his wiener.

By: sanmat

sanmat — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:13:56 +0000

Facebook taking another turn.
http://blogkatt...-turn_6464.html

By: Yelp Sucks

Yelp Sucks — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:36:09 +0000

all smoke and mirrors. facebook can’t get click-throughs and has no biz model to sustain anything remotely near this valuation.

it’s the site du jour for now… until the next one shows up.

remember it was friendster… than myspace… now facebook… this too shall pass.

btw, I haven’t logged onto my facebook account in 2 months and I find no reason to.

By: =Jason

=Jason — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:01:44 +0000

First off, Fake Steve, go away. Everyone is sick of you. Either say something good or get lost.

Second, I think that this is a good deal for MSFT. Facebook has the potential and may already be one of those companies that cannot be bought, only invested into, and with their plans for the future of building the web around themselves, not around the web, they will have a very sccesful IPO and reach an extremelly high market cap in the 200-300 billion range.

Also, I think tech crunch needs to post something about how to value a company so no one writes stupid remarks like “there is no way the users are worth $300 each”.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:53:49 +0000

@ Fake Steve Ballmer

I am a little dissapointed…no blog post on this yet?

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:36:10 +0000

Dang! I’m gooood!
Those FaceBookies have no clue whats next!

http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com

By: Microsoft lawyers

Microsoft lawyers — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:30:59 +0000

Mark is pretty smart guy. he made good decision.
Here’s why?

Microsoft have the world’s most powerful lawyers. That’s 10x more powerful than Google, yahoo, ask, rest of software lawyers, and government lawyers.
Bill Gates dad is also lawyer. He’s got powerful legal firms. No U.S government want to touch Mircosoft again. :/

By: Web 2.0 wars

Web 2.0 wars — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:23:42 +0000

Another visionary. I can see ASK.com buying spreadsheet Editgrid.

By: Your Daddy

Your Daddy — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:22:33 +0000

So looks like employees just have job assurance and their salaries but nothing more than that at this point. Do you guys think FB will IPO in the next 12-18 months? Will the market sustain this time frame?

By: Web 2.0 wars

Web 2.0 wars — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:22:12 +0000

I grew up visionary. I can see Yahoo buying Zoho.com.

By: Smiley

Smiley — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:20:06 +0000

Yes i agree that another big player is going to get something like 3% to 5% lets see what happens in 2008. Oh web 2.0 is not gonna crash people.