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Follow up on Vocus (VOCS)

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I have to give Vocus management credit for being responsive to shareholders. I know firsthand that the management of a public company can become beleaguered by shareholders when their stock gets crushed.  So when  I complained about not getting one of my questions answered by the CEO , I didn’t expect an immediate response.  Yet I got one today from the CFO no less. Vocus is one of the new companies staking out the social marketing space.  It’s a cloud based software suite that includes PR Web, iContact, and tools to listen and interact with Facebook and Linkedin users.  I … Read more

Silicon Valley Faces Private Sanity Check – WSJ.com

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Silicon Valley Faces Private Sanity Check By ROLFE WINKLER A wave of sanity is washing over Silicon Valley after Facebook’s FB +3.00% listing debacle, and that may be bad news for private companies looking to raise money. Suddenly, investors seem to care about business fundamentals again. Instagram surfed the wave perfectly. Despite having no revenue, it sold itself to Facebook for cash and stock currently worth $920 million. But the new focus on fundamentals makes it trickier for hot start-ups like Twitter,LivingSocial and Square to justify the peppy private valuations they have recently received or are seeking. via Silicon Valley Faces … Read more

Facebook IPO Seen Deepening Investor Distrust of Stocks – Bloomberg

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Facebook IPO Seen Deepening Investor Distrust Of Stocks By Elizabeth Ody and Margaret Collins – May 25, 2012 10:01 PM MT Facebook Inc. (FB)’s initial public offering, plagued by trading errors and a 16 percent drop in the share price, will push more individual investors out of a stock market they already distrust after the financial crisis. “This is clearly the latest in a long string of events that is eviscerating the confidence investors have in the market,” said Andrew Stoltmann, a Chicago attorney who represents retail investors. “The perception is Wall Street jiggered this IPO so the underwriters made … Read more

So Just How Much Is That Tweet Worth?

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Rob May, who is a co-founder of Backupify (online data storage) just posted some interesting information on his blog.  In case you ever wondered just how much your Yelp review or Tweet, was worth in real life dollars, here’s what he found: Check-in on Forsquare= $.40 LinkedIn Search= $.124 Facebook Share= $.024 Tweet= $.001 and last we have a Yelp review= $9.13 Keep in mind, May produced relatively rough estimates of these valuations based on the parameters he came up with.  Read more about how he came up with the valuation here: How Much Is a Tweet Worth? – Businessweek.

Goldman Upgrades, LinkedIn Jumps

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LinkedIn shares shot up almost 8% today on good news from the Goldman camp.  Analysts decided to raise the price target $55 to $135 and up the rating from Hold to Buy.  While shares of LNKD broke the $100 dollar mark for the first time since the IPO on this news, many consider the price target to be rather excessive, despite the fact that nobody should listen to price targets anyway.  According to Goldman, there is a “high perceived value” of LinkedIn services among recruiters and is poised to benefit from the increase in mobile usage and advertising.  It’s hard … Read more

Facebook Under Fire as it Approaches IPO

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I’m sick of Facebook.  The name makes me cringe every time the talking heads on CNBC spout out the same regurgitated facts; all too reminiscent of Armani  clad penguins feeding vast fields of their young.  Regardless, here’s some news that might  get a smile out of your spiteful inner self: lawsuits against the social media giant are rapidly piling up as we near the initial public offering.  No, the company didn’t decided to go on one last rampant crime spree just before going public.  It’s the scent of money in the air that drives the shoals of patent lawyers into … Read more

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Balkanization, or Balkanisation, is a geopolitical term originally used to describe the process of fragmentation or division of a region or state into smaller regions or states that are often hostile or non-cooperative with each other.. You need to look no further than a stock chart of Google or this unbelievably depressing Chart of the Day from the SAI Business Insider. Facebook’s Unbelievable Effect On The Rest Of The Web. Or for that matter the meteoric rise in price of LinkedIn’s IPO.  When I first started an Internet company in 1994, the web held the promise of making the world … Read more

Is it an Internet bubble? If So Everyone Wants In

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I’m starting to get some of the mania.  You have to think of it in different ways.  For example, who would every pay monthly fees to Ancestry.com.  Evidently there are growing numbers of people who can’t complete their curiosity in an evening.  Zynga and online games I sort of understand.  I raised two kids addicted to them.   I can’t wait until they can start paying for them themselves. But then again, time away from Call of Duty is expensive to get. Linkedin, well I personally use that one a lot but I don’t think I’d spend any more money there … Read more

‘s Road to IPO

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Linkedin is a social network geared to the work world. The company has more than 1,000 employees and 100 million members in more than 200 countries. Now it will be one of the first major social media IPOs. Let’s take a look at the history behind Linkedin’s IPO… Source: The Credit Score Blog