Comments on: Facebook Seeks Small Fortune To Make A Big One

By: Secret33.com, (On Facebook Seeks Small Fortune To Make A Big One )

Secret33.com, (On Facebook Seeks Small Fortune To Make A Big One ) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:10:28 +0000

I am beginning to think that Facebook is going to be another Google with their ambition and zeal in raising more for expansion

By: Musictomyears

Musictomyears — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:35:00 +0000

Users don’t pay for Google either and in terms of search do not even need to register. Yet Google is valued at billions of dollars. Facebook has a lot of power over advertisers because of the amount of information they have about each user. They can use this information to tailor an advertising campaign for specific demographics within their site. Companies will pay top dollar for this type of exposure so as Facebook has been collecting more users they are able to increase their the price of their ad space.

By: 27% of Facebook Users Plan to Buy and Apple Product This Year « Searching for a Unifying Theme

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:52:28 +0000

[...] younger demographics, but hey, where else can I get such cheap market intelligence?? Also with over 40 million users, Facebook user alone could (according to extrapolating this survey) account for about 11 million [...]

By: Thierry

Thierry — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:00:43 +0000

There is something that i don’t understand.
How can you make profit with Facebook (or otehr social web like Myspace, Spock, etc) if users don’t pay ? On what trade or on what sale of product will investors be paid ? There is not publicity on Facebook… How get they their dollars ? Thanks.

By: anujk

anujk — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:52:57 +0000

This is certainly a great move… getting new investors should be easy for Facebook with all the day by day growing hype going around it….

By: Neil Cauldwell

Neil Cauldwell — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:33:31 +0000

Surely this move is all about leveraging potential investors - considering their current momentum/hype machine coverage, Facebook could easily raise the cheapest money, for whatever they may need it for, from doing another round of funding.

Why lump your next strategic move on your revenue/profits, when you can just take cheaper money from desperate VCs?

By: Facebook ready for a raise | David G. Hong

Facebook ready for a raise | David G. Hong — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:36:54 +0000

[...] of competitors like MySpace, Microsoft and Google. The Palo Alto based company is believed to be worth $525 million US amid reports that Yahoo and Microsoft has offered Facebook $1 billion US and $6 billion US [...]

By: midsouthblack

midsouthblack — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:56:21 +0000

Good move. I guess we better join The Facebook Revolution also!

By: stone

stone — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:54:45 +0000

I thought they’d leaked the fact that they were already profitable? And, if they’re growing so fast, wouldn’t their profits increase next year? And, if things are going so well wouldn’t their current investor pool put in all the money they need? Who’s asking the tough questions of Geocities, um…er, I mean Facebook?

By: Mr.Chips

Mr.Chips — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:28:30 +0000

I totally agree, this is the momentum where 2.0 companies need to take advantage of. Good move….

By: DinoHorse

DinoHorse — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:17:36 +0000

I honestly believe that Facebook will be one of the most successful companies from this Web 2.0 era.. it is amazing the strategy behind every move they make….

By: William Wei

William Wei — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:09:41 +0000

You can’t tell whether or not to raise more money based on revenue alone. There are also other matrix as profit, market condition, etc. If they want to continue the momentum and accelerate it even faster, they need all the money they can get. Especially right now, when they are still hot. It’s all about momentum.

By: Philip Wilkinson

Philip Wilkinson — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:21:12 +0000

I'm not sure I see why they really need to raise any more money at all either. Surely with that revenue and a massively growing userbase (in the UK alone it is rapidly gaining dominant market share), they can just carry on growing organically.

The real risk I see is letting Application Spam keep getting worse, as I know some people are leaving facebook now as you keep getting stupid invites for stupid things.