I think more directory acquistions will take place soon. I think sites like aviva and alive, stpt, sevenseek and mores have great potential for a buyout.
Im printing $100 bills on my hp2600 printer right now ... I should be able to buy business.com for cash by end of next week ..
yes Microsoft should buy it Yahoo had a paid directory and Google had a ODP clone Microsoft is missing something here. They should go for it. and reduce the price. you should buy some cartridges before that
so this was the reason for the directories discounts - get some discounted listings while they plan to sell also, it would be ineresting to see whether the new buying entity decides to keep the directory listings at it is or goes with a total revamp like netscape.com
It doesn't happen like that. Do you know how many companies there are investing millions and millions trying to become youtube, yet youtube initially invested pennies and these sites are nowhere near as popular. If everyone thought like you no business or website would ever be sold. Why buy a $50k site when i could just spend that $50 on advertising for a new site etc..
0 Companies there is absolutly no companie investing Millions in a youtube,myspace or digg clone. but who said anything about Youtube? i was talking about the case of Business.com its absolutly not worth the 300 Millions, you can start a new website and spend 10 Millions on advertising and you will be making what they make monthly, Business directories is a very good niche with only 2 or 3 Big players. one again, i was talking about the business.com case, there are sites that are worth their prices and sites that are not. cheers.
Heavy, dailymotion, porkolt, livevideo, flurl, grouper, ifilm, revver and lots more are investing millions to compete with youtube. My point is any site you buy you could theorectically invest the money into creating a competing site but it doesn't always work like that when sites are established. If the site sells for $300m then its worth it since i cant see companies paying that kind of money without knowing what they are doing.
Price increased based on the Brand and revenue. No doubt new owner will play it well, they have $$. Thanks for the news Jeff
this is not true, they are not investing Millions(where did you get that), give me a proof that any of these clones are investing Millions, Dailymotion IS NOT A CLONE It was launched Here in france 1 Month after Youtube registred their domain name(dailymotion was under contrustion before even youtube existed), at the time youtube was not popular and nobody knew that youtube is the next BIG THING. BUT ONCE AGAIN DONT GIVE ME THOSE EXAMPLES I AM TALKING ABOUT THE BUSINESS.COM Case, yes big companies will choose the most safe choice (buying an existing and profitable business) but "most safe" is not always the best, personally i can see a new Business Directory with a web 2.0 Look and Concept + A Strong Million dollars budget become even more popular than business.com
Oh man serious, I didnt know that else I would have waited for a few more days to get a nice discount hehe thanks for another nice tip anyhow, I think 300-400 million is pretty overprice right unless their revenue is about that amount.
They are investing millions to compete with youtube, when did i say clones? You don't think millions? The bandwidth and server setup for the sites above alone will be close to that. I wasn't giving them as examples this time..... i was replying to
Ok so first you have no proof that they are investing millions, second now you think that the server and bandwith costs are close to Millions i dont want to do the math (i can if you ask me to), but the bandwith and server fees for those clones are no more than 5K-10k/month in the worst cases(Millions of video views per day).
These sites above, some doing close to 1million uniques a day, they use tons of resource and plus they host FULL LENGTH movies, 100mb files. $5k-$10k/month, are you mad? Proof they invest millions? http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2007/01/polaris_invests.html took me one second to find, heavy.com secures $20 MILLION in investments, on top of the $10 MILLION they already received. I could find the same for the others to...
First the full lenght movies are deleted all the time because of copyright infrigment, the average size of a legal movie after being converted to FLV is 1Mb per Minute. even with Millions of views The Bandwith fees wont be more than 10K (a 100 Mbs Line cost 1k/month and can Support more than 250 TB of Bandwith per Month if fully USED (do the math) which is more than enough for Millions of plays per day. Respect Please i thought we are having and interesting and adult conversation, its nothing personal For the heavy case (which has nothign with business.com), they are investing that kind of money AFTER They became a million dollar and etablished company, We WERE TALKING About Advertising for The Launch of new companies.