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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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Rediff’s Acquisition Prospects
Rediff (Nasdaq: REDF) is reported to be in acquisition discussions with Google and Yahoo. The company’s stock moved up to an all-time high of $27.50 per share on July 12 from $17.94 on July 5. The trading volume increased to more than a million shares from an average of 50,000 share a day, and has
Entrepreneurship Case Studies
You have read many of my interviews on this blog. Here’s a synthesis of some of the case studies I have done, in an interview format. These differ slightly from the series that I have titled Role Model Interviews, since in this series, I go into the company and its strategy, market, financing, etc. in
eBay’s Next Few Acquisitions
eBay’s StumbleUpon acquisition is done. I wrote about it, in eBay’s Foray’s into Media. Not much to add on the topic, except that the price has changed. eBay eventually ended up acquiring the company for $75 Million. One critical point I made in my previous analysis is that eBay needs to plug the leakage in
Retrevo’s Vertical Search: Before and After
According to Vipin Jain, CEO, Retrevo “is a web service that helps consumers with shopping and support of tech products. Retrevo is your trusted advisor throughout the lifecycle ownership of tech products, from education, research, deals, price comparison, getting the best out of the products you bought, accessorizing, using, fixing issues to servicing your products.
Retrevo’s Vipin Jain on Vertical Search (3)
SM: Who financed the company at the very beginning? VJ: Ammar Hanafi @ Alloy Ventures seed funded in Feb 2006. SM: Did you raise Angel money? How much? From whom? VJ: Three founders bootstrapped the company with $150K cash. SM: Did you raise Venture money? How much? From whom? VJ: Total $3.9M venture money raised
Retrevo’s Vipin Jain on Vertical Search (2)
SM: How big is the market for what you have to offer? (TAM analysis is essentially what I am looking for here … ) VJ: $1B-$1.5B. Assume a conservative $25B online spending out of a total of $150B CE spending in the US. Assume 4%-5% of the total online spend in referral. TAM is much
Retrevo’s Vipin Jain on Vertical Search (1)
A Vertical Search engine called Retrevo has come up a few times in our coverage of the Gadget Geeks segment. Here, I interview the CEO, Vipin Jain. SM: Please describe your business value proposition and your product. VJ: Retrevo is a web service that helps consumers with shopping and support of tech products. Retrevo is
Web 3.0 & Travel Search Engines
We have been discussing the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel, TripAdvisor, Travelocity, Orbitz, Expedia, Priceline and LonelyPlanet from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier. Here we will take a look at the popular travel meta-search engines, Kayak and SideStep in the light of the web 3.0 framework. Kayak was founded in January 2004
