http://gigaom.com/2012/07/10/is-hot-payment-startup-stripe-worth-half-a-billion/ Fri, 24 May 2013 17:29:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2012/07/10/is-hot-payment-startup-stripe-worth-half-a-billion/#comment-1035288 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:20:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=541249#comment-1035288 We’re in the middle of the second dot com bubble. We didn’t learn our lesson last time when smart tech people get into models and industries they don’t understand. Stripe has a nice and simple model addressing one of the key issues with standard payment providers, but once these providers adjust their models with easier boarding, multi-channel API’s and industry expertise, Stripe will start to fall.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/07/10/is-hot-payment-startup-stripe-worth-half-a-billion/#comment-900334 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:06:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=541249#comment-900334 lol. That is hilarious.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/07/10/is-hot-payment-startup-stripe-worth-half-a-billion/#comment-862766 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:30:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=541249#comment-862766 These valuation estimates are always hilarious, the company is worth what someone will pay for it or what it’s market cap turns out to be when it goes public. If neither of those happens and it runs out of money, its not worth anything.

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