Google, Yahoo, eBay.. Next Acquisitions -2-
May 24, 2006
Here’s a quick update for the sites I forgot to mention:
SimplyHired & Indeed
Very good idea.. These are both job listing mashups; and they are far more efficient than conventional ones. They may end up by being bought by established giants in this industry (like monster.com).. Google’s preference may be Indeed; because Indeed has a cleaner and more Google-stylish user interface. And I think Google should really enter this domain. However, I can’t compare their technologies because I couldn’t examine in great detail their core technologies. I know that Indeed is backed by del.icio.us investors, Union Square Ventures
EdgeIO
Similarly to above mashups, EdgeIO aggregates listings in one place in a web 2.0ish style. This is a Michael Arrington (of Techcrunch) venture; so it had very good marketing.. I believe eBay may want to buy this innovation for a low price.. (mashups can never go for high prices i think; the same was valid for indeed, simplyhired and groups; the reason is that you’re not independent (i mentioned it somewhere in this blog))
Zopa
Again a very clever and money involved. Thus it may be the target of eBay… But this depends on people’s behaviors.. This is still a very early, untested idea.. We’ll see; but I believe people will use it and get used to it; as they did for Paypal in the past. However they are not alone in this race. There were similar sites also; I just forgot their name.
Yub
Social shopping.. Yahoo, eBay or Amazon..
Hiya dude, do ur from Romania ha?
Thaught that name was a little bit too romanian.
well done on Ur Digg today, it’s cool to see more people from the Mioritic are are online.
Ohh … ur alexa rank is good as well , maybe that’s cuz of the digg today.
Just one thing … Why do u insist on people beeing bought by bigger companies ? What if they just make it on their own, google was a start up look where it is now . I think digg should do it’s thing and be independant, it’s come a long way in a very short time.
Anyway good luck with your … whatever it is that you’re dooin.
Peace
Another good application is http://www.mynoteit.com , could even have potential to be bought becuase of it’s educational aspect.
It seems like you are in danger of appearing to be rattling off popular Web2.0 start-ups and then associating with who would be best to buy them…
That’s different then actually saying that a particular company would want to buy company X.
In many examples of the companies you’ve listed above and in the first post to this, there doesn’t seem any reason for them to be bought out at all.
If a start-up doesn’t have a large established usebase (many don’t like Edgio, Zopa, Yub) or have easily copy-able business logic then there’s little point in them being bought out.
GYM might as well just set their own up instead.
I’m not disagreeing with you on many of them, but it would be interested to hear some thoughts on _why_ these companies are worth buying.
Nice list, though.
Cheers
Ben
That’s a big list, note to self to come back and read it.
[...] Who will buy small, innovative Web 2.0 startups? A nice idea from Ivan Multesecu: Part 1: Google, Yahoo, eBay.. Next Acquisitions Part 2: Google, Yahoo, eBay.. Next Acquisitions -2- [...]
It is now a trend of giant company like google, yahoo & eBay to merge with other growing popular service. With your post, I think you have a good bases.