Comments on: How Much Will Your Startup Be Worth In Three Years? Go Find Out.

By: Free Online Advertising

Free Online Advertising — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:42:56 +0000

Great tool I checked a site that competes with craigslist caled whynotad and it ranked very high on the noodle site

By: YouNoodle YouFailed » Eninvent

YouNoodle YouFailed » Eninvent — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:31:23 +0000

[...] I signed up for yet another service today called YouNoodle. It has been in development for awhile, but recently came back on my radar via TechCrunch Coverage. [...]

By: Peter Thiel: Best Predictor of Startup Success Is Low CEO Pay | Zensible

Peter Thiel: Best Predictor of Startup Success Is Low CEO Pay | Zensible — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:15:30 +0000

[...] CEO is paying himself. (This is also a factor that one of his investments, YouNoodle, looks at to value private startups). Says Thiel: The lower the CEO salary, the more likely it is to [...]

By: The Paul Blog » Blog Archive » Peter Thiel: Best Predictor of Startup Success Is Low CEO Pay

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:29:33 +0000

[...] CEO is paying himself. (This is also a factor that one of his investments, YouNoodle, looks at to value private startups). Says Thiel: The lower the CEO salary, the more likely it is to [...]

By: Peter Thiel: Best Predictor of Startup Success Is Low CEO Pay

Peter Thiel: Best Predictor of Startup Success Is Low CEO Pay — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:31:12 +0000

[...] CEO is paying himself. (This is also a factor that one of his investments, YouNoodle, looks at to value private startups). Says Thiel: The lower the CEO salary, the more likely it is to [...]

By: Alex Bernstein

Alex Bernstein — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:58:34 +0000

Look over here, yes… look over here while we collect all the information about you, your colleagues, and your business.

That’s right, come on into our little website and spend 30 minutes giving us all your personal data…don’t you want to see some “dreamy” big number at the end? c’mon give us your data and we’ll stroke your monster entrepreneur ego.

You are smart, so there is “no way” you are going to join “yet another” social network start up, and you certainly wouldn’t spend half an hour entering data to join an empty room! You are smarter than that, aren’t you?

Okay, I went through the process, and yes! they said I’m going to be RICH and they even told me when it would all come true!

As a marketing guy, my hat is off to these guys.

(please don’t tell everyone that the “value analysis” tool is nothing more than a data capture trick and that the giant valuation prize you get for completing the profile is really just a viral marketing strategy that tricks you into telling your friends about the site.)

By: Valor del ángel « Blog de JoseMPelaez

Valor del ángel « Blog de JoseMPelaez — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:29:12 +0000

[...] oportunidad? No resultaría nada extraño ya que, en otra nota sobre una nueva herramienta para predecir el valor de una startup, escribe que: «The key factors in determining likelihood of success are the team, financial [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:17:52 +0000

Wow $8 million – I just thought of a start-up idea last night and went to get a prediction. I answered honestly – no revenue, product will be ready in 1 year from now, I’m the only employee, I’ve never started a company before, etc. etc. and in 3 years this baby is going to be worth $8 million! Nice. Time to quit my day job I guess

By: Cash Flows = Valuations

Cash Flows = Valuations — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:14:39 +0000

It seems the valuation parameters “You Noodle” require may not as relevant as actual cash flows, both in terms of revenues and profits. Cash flows are what determine the valuations, not eyeballs, background of management team and so forth. Are you back to the “Dot.Com” bubble days again? It seems that people never learn.

By: Roshan Shrestha

Roshan Shrestha — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:46:46 +0000

There seems to be a SERIOUS BLUNDER on whoever sent the email to the people who signed up to be notified. My email is filled with 52 email from/in reply to “Kirill Ali” and 61 from “Kirill Makharinski”. The most serious problem is that those email contain the email address of ALL THE PEOPLE who signed up, e.g.

p.d.rutt….com,
mike….com,
soul.inf..l.com,
jimmy.ch…net,
pedro.mon…com,
felix.gliesc…com,

How can I now trust them with the data I have to enter to use their service!!

Now I am waiting for the deluge of SPAM in my inbox.

By: Venture Returns

Venture Returns — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:01:20 +0000

Hey guys, I know I am violating the board policy a bit but I think that this is somewhat relevant. You might want to check out the valuation tool that we launched several months ago at http://www.vent...luationTool.php. Our approach is much comparables-based where we use EV/Revenue and EV/EBITDA ratios for your company. As one who has worked in banking and valuation, this is one of the industry standard norms for valuation.

I would love any of your thoughts! We are bootstrapped so go easy on us.

By: James

James — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:46:35 +0000

Kirill,

As I mentioned in a previous comment we scored 309 / 1000. is there any resoure available to show where that rates or what exactly that means.

I could understand the $20.1m bit but not the random number in the sky! lol

By: Matt Ghali

Matt Ghali — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:45:35 +0000

Data gathering bullshit. They’re going to try to see what kind of ideas for the next new mash-ups. DUH!!!! You guys are so stupid for putting in all this information.

By: bjupton

bjupton — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:30:47 +0000

Too bad you didn’t build the site on Ruby on Rails.

By: Damian Deile

Damian Deile — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:29:48 +0000

YouNoodle is obviously a thinly veiled attempt by the Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster to recruit members of the tech industry. Much like the Church of Scientology does with the Hollywood elite.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:03:32 +0000

i always follow the motto, “Its not what you’re worth, its what someones willing to pay you”

that said, i think its will be incredibly difficult for this tool to provide accurate evaluations of what your startup is worth.

seems like it could be fun though.

By: StartupGuy

StartupGuy — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:52:34 +0000

Ok. Your first post was spot on.

Apologies for my earlier message here.

Cheers.

The first post is here: Will you noodle predict its own failure?”

By: Kirill Makharinsky

Kirill Makharinsky — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:11:27 +0000

Hal – we did use YouNoodle on ourselves, and received a predicted valuation of $96M and YouNoodle Score of 496. Make of that what you will

By: Razan

Razan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:00:53 +0000

Score was 243/1000, not bad either…

By: MEB

MEB — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:00:33 +0000

Data gathering aside, the steps asking how long people knew each other professionally or socially aren’t working here, on either IE or FF, after multiple cache cleans & browser restarts.

By: Razan

Razan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:57:19 +0000

I got 12,000,000 for Questler, not bad since we are based in Amman, Jordan!

I think its a nice tool to get you to know the things that might be of importance to investors, however, going all the way to a certification is just too much.

By: Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:27:31 +0000

Are all the bugs worked out of YouNoodle? Are you sure there wasn’t an error and TechCrunch is actually worth $874 million?

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:58:45 +0000

hmmm… 594/1000 with a $37.5M valuation! i like this.

in fact, i think the TC50 crew should use this as an input into their interview formula this week. we’d be in for sure!

maybe we’ll start tomorrow’s demo with a visit to younoodle.

By: George

George — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:52:07 +0000

woo hoo says jippidy will be worth $60 Million in 2011

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:44:54 +0000

I would say that there is about a 99.5% chance that they are recording the data for their own benefit.