Ask PG: Is There A Startup You Regret Not Funding? (Like Fred and AirBnB)

Re:Ask PG: Is There A Startup You Regret Not Funding? (Like ... by pg on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @02:16AM (#4478231)

You can never find out a private company's revenues, so the best we can do is to go by approximations like how frequently we hear about them, later funding rounds, etc.

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Re:Ask PG: Is There A Startup You Regret Not Funding? (Like ... by jeltz on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @04:37AM (#4478501)

Interesting. In Sweden the high level information about a private company is publicly available. Several websites like allabolag.se lives from aggregating this data and reselling it.

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Re:Ask PG: Is There A Startup You Regret Not Funding? (Like ... by lazyjones on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @07:08AM (#4478823)

In Sweden all salaries are made public too, so that's not particularly surprising. ;-)

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Re:Ask PG: Is There A Startup You Regret Not Funding? (Like ... by debacle on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @10:16AM (#4479450)

Sweden sounds like a very rational place.

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Re:Ask PG: Is There A Startup You Regret Not Funding? (Like ... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @05:06AM (#4478569)

Is there nothing more to it than revenues? [that's not intended to be snarky and rhetorical however it sounds in your head!] Like do you think "Wow, sorry we missed them, they're making awesome stuff" or is it primarily financial.

This kinda fits in with the Kickstarter discussion, scale is entirely different of course.

I guess in short is business more about making money or about creating value.

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