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Could Henry Blodget be a $15 billion liability? Easy
Nick Douglas · 09/29/06 01:55PMAmazon's stock will hit $400, predicted analyst Henry Blodget in 1998. It didn't. The stock now trades at $32.14, but Blodget got attention and a job at Merrill Lynch. Never mind that he was a journalist by trade, with no analyst training. One dot-com bomb later, Merrill let him go, Eliot Spitzer charged him with securities fraud (he settled), and the "analyst" was banned from the securities industry for life.
Valley trick #3: Never base one valuation off another
Nick Douglas · 09/21/06 07:42PMNew York Post prints new YouTube self-valuation and old just-got-laid founder photo
Nick Douglas · 09/21/06 12:11PMLoose Wires: At least get J Allard a hat
Nick Douglas · 09/15/06 12:47AMby Beth Gottfried
Web 2.0 Update: GroupHoop craves your hot content
Nick Douglas · 09/13/06 03:14PMFlock CEO leaves the fold
Nick Douglas · 09/13/06 11:23AMAdventures in bad publicity: Dabble's Hodder babbles on bubble
Nick Douglas · 09/12/06 07:36PMHow to be a Silicon Valley cynic
Nick Douglas · 09/11/06 07:57PMTwo left feet: Why ChaCha will fail
Nick Douglas · 09/06/06 02:37PMOther headlines include "Are Double Ds too big?" New startup pays creepy bloggers
Nick Douglas · 09/06/06 01:22PMMost startup launches are embarrassing enough without details. When Thisisby.us announced it was starting "the first major Web 2.0 application to incentivize an entire blogging community," it looked like any other doomed little content-based site paying pennies for blog posts no one wanted to read anyway. (And we all know Gawker Media cornered that market years ago.)
To-Do tonight: Every time someone reinvents semantic folksonomies, do a shot
Nick Douglas · 08/31/06 07:45PM- No toil nor trouble at tonight's first Bubble Thursday in San Fran. While the crowd will be fun (Laughing Squid founder Scott Beale! Vlogger Irina Slutsky! The Technorati crew! Valleywag!) the tone won't be too bubbly — no open bar, much less chocolate fountains and corporate strippers. (Granted, if you give host Kevin Burton a twenty, he'll stuff it in his underwear. Honest.) [Upcoming, photo by Zach Stern]
Pop goes the weasel: When Web 2.0 bombs, these blogs could die
Nick Douglas · 08/24/06 06:29PMWhen the little dot-coms blow up, says marketing/PR blogger Steve Rubel, the sites funded by their advertising will go under too. Rubel names social news site Digg as one potential victim. How does it stack up against other Web-2.0-supported sites? Above the fold, we analyze Digg and tech blog GigaOM. Below, GigaOM competitor TechCrunch sets off a red alert.
Queens of the dCongo
Nick Douglas · 08/23/06 06:11PMBubble sign #4815: Content sites going public
Nick Douglas · 08/21/06 02:21PMIn 1996, when the tech boom was still ramping up, Wired Ventures already proved that content outlets would miss out on the money. The company dropped its IPO plans after investors backed off. Wired, unable to pay its bills, had to sell itself off piecemeal. Lesson learned: Content may be king, but only in the sense that the Queen rules the UK.
Bubbly Wiki.com buyer bullshits, will bail on $3 million deal
Nick Douglas · 08/10/06 01:41PMThe Internet went a-twitter last week when John Gotts (who made his millions selling anti-spyware software) bought the Wiki.com domain for $2.86 million. When users on Digg.com called this a sign of a tech bubble (how do you make a site about wikis earn millions?), Gotts defended his purchase by summing up his business plan: