Slide 7 from the Bizak presentation discussing our market and the need to make an apples to apples comparison of internet startups.
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Here is another slide from Vencorp’s Mashable Startup Showdown. This video is a bit longer at 2:49 and this time around I’m discussing (in detail) Bizak’s current revenue model. The discussion also talks about our plans to syndicate our data via XML (available soon for $4,000/month) and the integration of professional consulting services for both startups and investors.
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Below is a Vencorps forum post in response to a question asked about the ability of Bizak to value startups. - Tom
Startups and public companies are indeed very different animals but revenues are revenues. Bizak valuation is based purely on revenues - not speculation. So if a startup makes $1 million/year and a public company [...]
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I recently spent some time on YouNoodle to test their Startup Predictor. YouNoodle’s Startup Predictor estimates what your startup will be worth in 3 years - Bizak estimates (based on revenues) what your startup is worth right now. From the YouNoodle questions it appears that they calculate your startup’s valuation based on the probability [...]
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How much is my idea worth? For startups seeking seed financing your initial business valuation is essential and very difficult to answer. For those not seeking financing then your initial valuation can wait until analytics and revenues determine it for you. For most ideas the initial value doesn’t necessarily come from the idea itself but the [...]
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Rick Breslin of the Drive Thru Internet Marketing Podcast recently interviewed Tom O’Keefe about the benefits of Bizak for both startups and investors. Topics in the video podcast include:
What is Bizak?
Website Worth and Industry Data Comparison
Startups Can Register for Free
Investors Can Find Prospective Online Ventures
The Bizak Calculator - Earnings per Visitor (EPV)
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LinkedIn recently received a $53 million round of financing (Techcrunch) from Bain Capital which valued the popular business network at $1 billion.
Is LinkedIn worth a billion dollars? GigaOM ran some numbers based on subscribers - I’ll take a look at revenues and compute their valuation using the Bizak Calculator.
USA Today estimates LinkedIn will have 2008 revenues [...]
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Of the websites submitted to Bizak 39% of them rely on Google Adsense to pay the bills - none use Microsoft Search Advertising or Yahoo Search Marketing.
E-commerce sites (products sales) are the second most popular revenue models representing 14% of the total. In house advertising affiliate marketing and service/consulting fees each represent 12% of the [...]
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Bizak gives entrepreneurs the ability to sort their projects according to the type of internet business they manage. These types include: blogs, bookmarks, collaboration, consulting services, content, e-commerce, e-learning, hosted services, lead generation, management, mapping, messaging, mobile, networking-business, networking-social, photo sharing, search, video and wiki.
Of the types of internet businesses listed above content [...]
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According to TechCrunch the online photo rating site known as Hot or Not has been acquired for $20 million by Avid Life Media. According to TechCrunch Hot or Not’s annual revenues are $5 million, with costs of $3 Million equaling a profit of $2 Million. Hot or Not receives approximately 5 million monthly [...]
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Once launched Bizak will have an approximate Web 2.0 valuation estimate called the Bizak Estimate. The Bizak Estimate is similar to many valuations in that it computes revenues times a multiple however from there we add on a valuation for traffic. Since more traffic is not always better we integrated the EPV (earnings per [...]
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