The 25 Most Valuable Startups

Posted by breily on Sunday April 27, 2008 @11:04PM
from the alleyinsider.com dept.

http://www.alleyinsider.com/sai25

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Re:The 25 Most Valuable Startups by SwellJoe on Monday April 28, 2008 @04:06AM (#175456)

So, Mint is probably way undervalued and nearly all of the others are way (way way way! holy crap!) overvalued. Billions for Habbo and Linden? Seriously? 400mil for Slide?

But, I got a chuckle out of Ning's valuation, given that they raised roughly the same amount about a week ago...so they literally have as much cash on hand as Alley Insider has valued them at. So, the business is worthless in their eyes. Interesting. (I think the valuation of Ning during that round of financing was wildly out of whack, but it's certainly worth something.)

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Re:The 25 Most Valuable Startups by aneesh on Monday April 28, 2008 @04:53AM (#175479)

Ning raised $60 million, at a pre-money of $500 million, so the post-money valuation of $560 million on Alley Insider is accurate.

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Re:The 25 Most Valuable Startups by SwellJoe on Monday April 28, 2008 @05:24AM (#175490)

Ah, I stand corrected (by nearly an order of magnitude). That makes a lot more sense than the numbers I had running around in my head.

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Re:The 25 Most Valuable Startups by jkent on Monday April 28, 2008 @02:40PM (#175858)

A simple check against Photobox's revenue shows £8.1mn in 2006, as officially filed in the UK at Companies House. That's about $16mn revenue - nowhere near the $100mn quoted.

Also shows Graham Hobson as CEO, now it is Stanislas Laurent, as of 11/07.

Are the other 'estimates' not similarly verifiable? Where do they get their data?

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Re:The 25 Most Valuable Startups by mynameishere on Monday April 28, 2008 @02:00AM (#175394)

Craiglist is worth less than facebook? Uh, right. Only because it's trying hard to not monetize itself.

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Re:The 25 Most Valuable Startups by tlrobinson on Monday April 28, 2008 @06:36AM (#175509)

This seems to reinforce pg's latest essay, "Be Good" http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html

3 of the top 5 seem to fall into the category of companies that act like charities: Wikipedia, Craigslist, and Mozilla.

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Re:The 25 Most Valuable Startups by zkinion on Monday April 28, 2008 @12:55AM (#175339)

There's some good companies on there, but most... are just bubble startups, especialy 90% of that contenders category.

If thats the best 25, I don't even want to know whats below that...

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Re:The 25 Most Valuable Startups by johnrob on Monday April 28, 2008 @01:07AM (#175353)

This is PR. I'm willing to bet that AlleyInsider's 'advisory board' has invested in many of those startups. Time to get some buyouts going...

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Re:The 25 Most Valuable Startups by run4yourlives on Monday April 28, 2008 @12:18AM (#175313)

Look at those stupid numbers. No bubble my ass.

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Re:The 25 Most Valuable Startups by carterschonwald on Monday April 28, 2008 @12:29AM (#175318)

Do all these companies qualify as startups? Some of the ones on this list have been around for a WHILE (eg Linden Labs)

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Re:The 25 Most Valuable Startups by wumi on Monday April 28, 2008 @01:03AM (#175350)

what exactly is the SAI definition of a startup?

hasn't found a business model?

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Re:The 25 Most Valuable Startups by rms on Monday April 28, 2008 @01:36AM (#175369)

Yeah, seriously, I wonder how many b2b companies they ignored.

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