A startup news blog that covered funding rounds, acquisitions and European tech companies, mainly around 2007 and 2008.
HN links it as a source for early startup news, including the Google and SimplyHired talks and a post on Google Weather's creator.
alarm:clock has broke the story:
http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/archives/2007/05/google_negotiat.html
And everyone is reporting on it:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/04/google-in-talks-to-acquire-simplyhired/
http://mashable.com/2007/05/04/google-simplyhired/
However Joshua Jaffe at VC ratings think this is non-sense. Why would the search giant buy search.
http://vcratings.thedealblogs.com/2007/05/google_buying_a_vertical_searc.php
I wish I could take sides and call one thing reasonable over other. what you guys think Does it makes sense ?
> It's quite funny to see people imply that advertising revenue isn't "real" revenue, or is in some way less valuable than getting customers to pay directly.
As long as numbers like these hold true: "At the $1 RPM (CPM/CPA/CPC) level achieved by most general sites, you need 4 billion page views/month ... to [reach] $50M in revenue per year" (http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/archives/2007/03/a_vcs_view_of_o.html), charging money for a product that creates value is going to be a more viable way of starting a successful company online
We know what happened to Larry and Sergei, but I was curious what happened to Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg:
Scott: http://www.zdnet.com/news/life-after-google-with-millions/184389
Alan: http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/archives/2007/05/google_weather.html / http://news.cnet.com/Start-up-warms-up-personal-robots/2100-11394_3-6214965.html?tag=mantle_skin;content