Not exact matches
The 12 - year - old
company, which calls itself «the front page of the
internet» and boasts more than 300 million monthly users, has raised an additional $ 200 million in venture capital funding that gives Reddit a
valuation of nearly $ 1.8 billion.
During the late»90s, Silicon Valley venture capitalists and New York City investment bankers used phrases such as «monetizing eyeballs,» «stickiness,» and «B2C» to justify the ridiculous
valuations of
internet companies.
New York - based
Internet retailer Fab took in the highest amount in a single funding round, getting $ 150 million in June to put the
company's overall
valuation at more than $ 1 billion.
GoDaddy priced its much - anticipated initial public offering Tuesday evening at $ 20 a share, according to reports, giving the
Internet domain hosting
company a
valuation of nearly $ 4.5 billion.
Twelve years ago in the
Internet bubble, those
companies had the same
valuations as some do today, but they weren't bringing in any money.
The market
valuation of Info Edge (India) Ltd, the publicly listed holding
company of consumer
Internet companies such as Naukri, 99acres and Jeevansathi, is more then $ 2 billion.
Since the
Internet was at its infancy in terms of commercial use, various investment funds were investing in technology
companies with inflated
valuations and no market traction.
Using private market
valuations that were available at the time for Gannett's high quality TV stations and marking to market the
company's investments in CareerBuilder and other
internet companies, an investor could have concluded that those assets alone where worth north of $ 11 a share at the time.
Twitter's successful debut is likely to stoke interest in other up - and - coming consumer
Internet companies such as ride service Uber, scrapbooking site Pinterest, accommodation service Airbnb and the payment start - up Square, all of which boast private - market
valuations well north of a billion dollars and could go public in the coming years.
Facebook's current annual revenue is around $ 150 million, about 1 % of the
company's theoretical
valuation of $ 15 billion, and if we learned one thing during the first
internet boom, it's that site users» eyeballs only count if you can turn them into dollars.
Mark Brooks: Why is this good for your
Internet dating
company valuation?
Do you think this will have positive repercussions for the online personals industry and
internet dating
company valuations?
The other interesting thing about the Frommer's deal is how cheap it was relative to the
valuations of a lot of the
internet companies in this space.
Excellent fundamental stock screeners on
internet are rare and only offering real value if fundamental history and
company valuation techniques are incorporated.
A current example is the use of metrics like «price per eyeball» to justify the
valuations of
internet focused
companies and divert attention from the fact that on traditional
valuation metric these
companies can look very expensive.
Since the
Internet was at its infancy in terms of commercial use, various investment funds were investing in technology
companies with inflated
valuations and no market traction.
You heard of the
Internet bubble back in the 90's full of online
companies that had high
valuation with no real net income.
The business partners based in Mountain View, Calif., aim to provide what they believe is missing on the
Internet: solid information and time - tested principles concerning commercial real estate investing, particularly the
company's signature Economic
Valuation System.