Comments on: Blinkx to IPO for $150-500M http://gigaom.com/video/blinkx-to-ipo-for-150-500m/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:07:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: NewTeeVee » Blinkx 'IPO' Raises $50 M http://gigaom.com/video/blinkx-to-ipo-for-150-500m/#comment-446184 Tue, 22 May 2007 16:49:09 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/blinkx-to-ipo-for-150-500m/#comment-446184 [...] If our pounds-sterling-to-dollars math is right, it looks like video search engine startup Blinkx raised nearly $50 million Tuesday in its unique “public offering,” a complex stock arrangement with parent company Autonomy that Liz detailed previously here. [...]

]]> By: NewTeeVee » Video Funding Keeps on Coming http://gigaom.com/video/blinkx-to-ipo-for-150-500m/#comment-446183 Wed, 16 May 2007 21:39:51 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/blinkx-to-ipo-for-150-500m/#comment-446183 [...] is out to raise 25 million pounds ($49 million) in its IPO, for a market capitalization of 114 million pounds ($225 million). We continue to think that seems [...]

]]> By: vlogger http://gigaom.com/video/blinkx-to-ipo-for-150-500m/#comment-446177 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:23:49 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/blinkx-to-ipo-for-150-500m/#comment-446177 Bah! This will be a flop, or dead within a few years.

]]> By: Liz Gannes http://gigaom.com/video/blinkx-to-ipo-for-150-500m/#comment-446180 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:15:00 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/blinkx-to-ipo-for-150-500m/#comment-446180 I agree there are already public internet TV companies — GoFish would be another. But I was making a distinction between them and new free web service (ok fine, web 2.0) video startups, which to my knowledge remain private.

]]> By: Iolo Jones http://gigaom.com/video/blinkx-to-ipo-for-150-500m/#comment-446179 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:54:26 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/blinkx-to-ipo-for-150-500m/#comment-446179 Good analysis, except there are a number of internet tv companies already public: Narrowstep (NRWS), Roo Group (RGRP) and Jump TV being three of them.

RGRP and NRWS are well below their flotation prices, whereas Jump TV achieved an extraordinary valuation by listing in London rather than the US.

]]> By: latent http://gigaom.com/video/blinkx-to-ipo-for-150-500m/#comment-446178 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:49:30 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/blinkx-to-ipo-for-150-500m/#comment-446178

a consumer destination complete with its own billboard on Highway 101 near San Francisco.<<

that billboard has been home to over-spend-til-you’re-dead dot-coms for 10 years.

]]> By: GigaOM » Blinkx, finally serves its purpose http://gigaom.com/video/blinkx-to-ipo-for-150-500m/#comment-446181 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:07:21 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/blinkx-to-ipo-for-150-500m/#comment-446181 [...] Liz points out the company has neither the traffic nor traction to really justify a $150-to-500 million dollar IPO. Still it has two buzz words going for it – [...]

]]> By: howard Lindzon http://gigaom.com/video/blinkx-to-ipo-for-150-500m/#comment-446182 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:10:36 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/blinkx-to-ipo-for-150-500m/#comment-446182 oy – mess. Congrats to entrepreneurs but once again shows the depths at which bankers will go in a bull market

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