Archive for the ‘valuations’ Category

Are you insane?!?! $2.3 million for a Facebook App! (or the logic behind paying $1.30 per user and why it’s not so insane)

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Yep another Facebook post (hopefully I won't turn into Dave McClure <jk>) but I think the reaction to Trip Advisor's purchase of the Where I've Been FB app for $1.30 per user or $3 million for 2.3 million users justifies some analysis. Not only is the word insane used ...

valuations are for egos

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Jeremy Liew started quite a discussion in the tech vc blogosphere with his post Asymetric risk and the danger of too high a valuation which was endorsed by Josh Koppelman and bashed by my fellow silicon alley alum Jason Calacanis and indirectly criticized by (and what might have influenced Jeremy's post) Marc Andreesen. As someone who ...