Comments on: StumbleUpon’s Ebay Spinoff Valuation: $29 Million

By: MySpace Close To Spinning Off Photobucket | Tech stuff center

MySpace Close To Spinning Off Photobucket | Tech stuff center — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:13:44 +0000

[...] this deal won’t look much different from eBay’s spinoff of StumbleUpon earlier this year, except on a larger scale. News Corp. gets a cash injection and retains a portion [...]

By: MySpace Close To Spinning Off Photobucket

MySpace Close To Spinning Off Photobucket — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:01:57 +0000

[...] this deal won’t look much different from eBay’s spinoff of StumbleUpon earlier this year, except on a larger scale. News Corp. gets a cash injection and retains a portion [...]

By: sem

sem — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:51:09 +0000

What eBay did in this situation was a bit ridiculous. The idea of buying a competitor was a good one, the idea of buying out a competitor for that price was just absurd. Nice to see the creators getting their company back and really having there way with a powerhouse like eBay.

By: iPhone app reviews

iPhone app reviews — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:32:03 +0000

It is silly to have bought it for so much in the first place… I hadn’t heard of Stumble in 2007. But it’s a powerful tool for driving traffic around the web, and I suspect the like/dislike function is a big part of its value. They can profile users and have an ongoing record of what they like. AND every site has an exit rate… but Stumble is just a service, and if I don’t like the site it brings me to, I’m very likely to just click Stumble! again.

By: مركز تحميل

مركز تحميل — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:31:16 +0000

Maybe they’re already thinking in this direction and looking for a buyout by a company that gets it.

By: منتديات

منتديات — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:27:12 +0000

I just don’t see a business model for this company worth saving considering the competition in this very small niche.

By: Internet Strategist @GrowMap

Internet Strategist @GrowMap — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:50:47 +0000

Su can drive a lot of traffic but only if you know how to use it. I’ve seen large bumps in traffic and if you read the post at http://www.aimc...bleupon-friend/ you’ll see what can be done there. I know that is true because I know the author and the person who sent the traffic.

By: Internet Strategist @GrowMap

Internet Strategist @GrowMap — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:48:45 +0000

I disagree. Just before eBay bought SU they had the almost perfect pages for highly targeted ppc advertising! If they restore those pages and make them easy to locate they would have their own pay per click golden goose.

I wrote about it in a blog post suggesting that monetization model for other Social Networking sites such as Twitter, FriendFeed or cliKball. I am amazed that to date none have moved in that direction.

I used that post in the Website link so you can read more about what I am suggesting. I can connect any site interested in the concept to the people who were behind the development of Go-To and Overture and worked for Yahoo! Search Marketing.

By: Remote access software

Remote access software — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:24:29 +0000

Personally, I never understood the supposed synergy between eBay and StumbleUpon. Frankly I think it’s a bit naive to pay a lot of money for a webpage that suggests other websites and then some years later realize that it is not even worth half that. How can you monetize something like this?

By: Ebay Rare Photo Spinoff | World News

Ebay Rare Photo Spinoff | World News — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:18:20 +0000

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Ebay Company Search Shipping | World News — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:52:19 +0000

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Ebay Spinoff Motors Pontiac | World News — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:52:36 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:34:47 +0000

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By: Max

Max — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:10:31 +0000

I think most have moved to Twitter, Twitter brings way more traffic these days, SU is great for traffic but they never convert to real money, the real problem…

By: Max

Max — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:09:07 +0000

SU is already late to the game, there’s http://stumbletweets.com that does that.

By: Max

Max — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:07:59 +0000

I think SU has gone downhill, it’s simply not a great site for monetizing blogs or SU itself.

Twitter has on the other hand, taken control, there’s even Twitter StumbleUpon, http://stumbletweets.com much better than SU for real-time up-to-the-minute stumbling.

I think SU will die out eventually.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:28:40 +0000

A great deal for those that bought it. The paid model for stumbleupon just hasn’t been a great revenue driver… yet, but the gross margin must be amazing, and tightly run with work on better revenue streams this site is going to rock. Stumble’s not going away, it can drive a lot of traffic still.

By: Daniel Tsieh

Daniel Tsieh — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:13:39 +0000

No, no… You guys don’t get it. Buying SU was a SUPERB move on eBay’s part, and selling SU is the dumbest thing they’ve ever done.

See, SU is one of the few companies to offer a credible alternative to Google. SU lets people find websites while bypassing Google, and unlike Mahalo, it’s all automated, scalable, and actually works.

SU could have formed the kernel for eBay’s strategic competition with Google. Letting go of SU means they’ve decided not to go toe to toe with Google.

By: Ilya

Ilya — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:24:04 +0000

I think SU can be worth a lot more. I think SU like twitter, has a unique play at search. Real-time search with twitter and user qualified and community rated search with stumble upon. I’m surprised that with every new release, they don’t expand on the opportunity. Maybe they’re already thinking in this direction and looking for a buyout by a company that gets it.

By: Stumble Around StumbleUpon’s Value ~ Web Developers

Stumble Around StumbleUpon’s Value ~ Web Developers — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:03:14 +0000

[...] Valued at $29 Million, it is sort of sad to think that StumbleUpon had been purchased by the ever-foolish, eBay for something like $75 Million. StumbleUpon, while cool, could not have less to do with anything eBay does. I mean, it is more useless to them than Skype, which was also another idiotic purchase. [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:10:07 +0000

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By: IntellectGetOne

IntellectGetOne — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:35:02 +0000

Agreed — there are a handful of companies, mostly small — offering services that help eBay grow their core or extend PayPal (or both). But rather than a strategy to buy those small, focused companies at a low-price, and take and grow those WITH eBay, they are trying to buy companies that can grow without eBay and attaching to those shooting stars.

We can see where that strategy got them.

Makes no sense. Their best acquisitions to date (PayPal by far, their automotive listing tool, BML, etc..) are all tightly hooked to eBay.com.

The deals that are distant to eBay have cost them billions.

Why the existing M&A team remains makes no sense.

By: geekevaluation

geekevaluation — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:31:29 +0000

eBay and tons of money and could never think of what to do with money so they went off shopping and buying companies which did not made business sense. Sersly how could stumble upon had helped ebay.
And why the hell would you pay $4 bn (I hope figure is correct ) for a internet phone company ?

You want your buyers and sellers to make call to each other. Very good develop a application on your own or buy some small company in this space.

By: Web 2.0 Bubble

Web 2.0 Bubble — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:28:22 +0000

This is Web 2.0 Gone Wild …….

Most of the Web 2.0 startups have no business models. They are free, based on “eye-balls” that the business model that Web 1.0 bubble is based on.

By: insider

insider — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:15:54 +0000

As of a couple months ago, StumbleUpon was still cash flow negative. They are close, but need about another $.5 million per year to break even. They may have surpassed this figure.