We just went through this at my company, StockCharts.com, with an established internet venture fund.
Their base valuation was based on the number of page views per month, X 20 to 50 cents.
Then they applied a multiplier from 2x to 10x, based on their view of our future marketability. A concrete list of subscribers or members was a big plus, in their eyes.
But you can see there's a lot of room for play here.
Re:Weblogs -vs- Web Diary, and the community issue
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I agree that Katz does seem to have conflated weblogs and online journals (aka web diaries), and they aren't exactly in the same space.
but you'd be surprised at the interest that people do take in other folks' lives. Archipelago ( http://www.spies.com/~islands ) is a selective ring of OLJs, but there are zillions listed on Open Pages ( http://www.hedgehog.net/op/ ), good, bad, or indifferent. most have their audience. readers feel free to give feedback on what the authors write, and many journals include a forum where this is done publicly.
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We just went through this at my company, StockCharts.com, with an established internet venture fund.
Their base valuation was based on the number of page views per month, X 20 to 50 cents.
Then they applied a multiplier from 2x to 10x, based on their view of our future marketability. A concrete list of subscribers or members was a big plus, in their eyes.
But you can see there's a lot of room for play here.
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I agree that Katz does seem to have conflated weblogs and online journals (aka web diaries), and they aren't exactly in the same space.
but you'd be surprised at the interest that people do take in other folks' lives. Archipelago ( http://www.spies.com/~islands ) is a selective ring of OLJs, but there are zillions listed on Open Pages ( http://www.hedgehog.net/op/ ), good, bad, or indifferent. most have their audience. readers feel free to give feedback on what the authors write, and many journals include a forum where this is done publicly.