Comments on: Facebook: Too Late For $750 Million?

By: Harmony Internet

Harmony Internet — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:29:16 +0000

RT @tsohost: It’s interesting to look back and see what “experts” thought about the future of facebook in 2006 http://t.co/OQBUEd0j

By: Jeff Miller

Jeff Miller — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:57:02 +0000

Note to self. Pontificating about tech is difficult. From March 2006 –> Facebook: Too Late For $750 Million? http://t.co/V3INRlVy

By: Tsohost

Tsohost — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:53:09 +0000

It’s interesting to look back and see what “experts” thought about the future of facebook in 2006 http://t.co/OQBUEd0j

By: The Dark Side of the Late 2009 M&A Surge | Family Learning Center

The Dark Side of the Late 2009 M&A Surge | Family Learning Center — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:11:16 +0000

[...] million for your Web 2.0 app today? Consider that Facebook—a company that was ridiculed by the press and analysts for not selling for $1 billion or less back in 2006 —has already bid $500 million [...]

By: The Dark Side of the Late 2009 M&A Surge

The Dark Side of the Late 2009 M&A Surge — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:02:23 +0000

By: Email Harvester Launches, Turns Down $750 Million Offer

Email Harvester Launches, Turns Down $750 Million Offer — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:30:17 +0000

[...] this week, we turned down a $750 million offer from an unnamed company, instead demanding $2 billion and a free pony (allegedly). We’re [...]

By: 007

007 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:53:49 +0000

what a bunch of BS!

By: Jas

Jas — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:57:06 +0000

I wonder who can give better advice. If facebook had followed the advice in this article, would they be the company they are today. Was opening to non-core audience a bad step? In hindsight, no.

So then, who/how can the future be predicted?

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:56:46 +0000

HAHAHA

talk about eating your words... 15 billion ring a bell?

By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:40:37 +0000

i bet they are glad they didn't listen you guys now that they are worth like 15 billion and sells a small 1.6% for $240 million lol to microsoft

By: Kasi-Blog » Blog Archive » Can you be too pessimistic when discussing Facebook’s money?

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:04:30 +0000

[...] offered 750 million US-$ in 2006. Some claim it could be worth 100 billion US-Dollars See Jason McCabe [...]

By: Charl

Charl — Sun, 20 May 2007 14:09:39 +0000

How wrong was Om Malik with his post HAHAH.. I cant believe this is still up

Zuck has proved him wrong with EVERYTHING he said above

By: peter

peter — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:36:03 +0000

boy wasn't the original poster wrong

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 03 May 2007 22:59:22 +0000

Interesting discussion, but I think the Facebook owners are smart for passing on the 750 million. I think they could easily sell it for a billion, but any more than that is being greedy. I am still upset about the fact that Facebook has allowed high schoolers, because it lowers Facebook's credibility. That is the big edge Facebook has over Myspace. Credibility. See with Myspace any spammer, webcam girl, hacker or 12 year old can join, but at least with Facebook I have to have a student email account to register. Facebook is much organized as well.

By: Oyvind on Facebook

Oyvind on Facebook — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:30:42 +0000

[...] It’s fun and quite addictive. I certainly can understand why the Facebook owners turned down a $750 million offer. [...]

By: CaptainTO

CaptainTO — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:57:44 +0000

Almost a full year later from this post, care to comment again on facebook’s trajectory over the last year? http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=facebook.com&site1=&site2=&site3=&site4=&y=r&z=1&h=300&w=500&range=1y&size=Medium&url=facebook.com

I know it is always tough to predict outcomes, but most should know by now that alexa graphs are a lot like stock charts, analyzing the mini trends can lead to inaccurate predictions. To look at these properly we need some sort of index value to remove the global variations in usage.

It seems the opening of the site has not caused a major decline in usage and their geographic expansion plans may counter any plateauing we will see in the US market.

Any comments on valuation? This site is actually profitable unlike many others.