About Me 0128: 2011

Monday, December 26, 2011

Making Money Ebay

Last night a source of mine sent me a text message about spotting Jerry Yang and David Filo (in a suit) at Palo Alto’s Four Seasons Hotel in company of some serious looking men, who spend a lot of time (and money) appearing to be self-important, a skill they perhaps learn in business school. His pithy message to sum it all up — looks like it is all going down.

The “it” is Yahoo’s very public auction of itself to the highest private equity bidder. In case you were hiding under a rock, here is a recap of rumors around Yahoo’s possible sale:

Silver Lake Partners wants to buy a minority stake in Yahoo for about $16.60 a share (valuing Yahoo at $20.6 billion or about 6 percent higher than yesterday’s closing price.) Silver Lake is working with Microsoft and Andreessen Horowitz.

The transaction is going to use PIPEs, private investment in public equity — a type of transaction long reserved for somewhat dubious companies.

Jerry Yang will stay on the board, but the investors will get three seats on the board, reports say.

Some folks believe that Jeff Jordan, former CEO of OpenTable, will become the chief executive of Yahoo and VC Marc Andreessen will become the chairman.

TPG Capital is considering offering a $1 per share more — aka $17.60/share.

Others are also eyeing the company including KKR and Blackstone Group.

Thomas H. Lee Partners is thinking about a bid.

Alibaba Group wants to buy Yahoo. Yahoo owns 40 percent of the Chinese company. Kara Swisher says they are thinking about teaming up with Softbank and Blackstone for their own bid.

600 million

Last time I wrote about Yahoo and its dismal and disastrous board of directors, I pointed out that 600 million users make up Yahoo’s biggest asset (and biggest stumbling block) and that company needed to clean house and then go shopping. Most of the people in comments disagreed and said that no self-respecting startup would want to be part of Yahoo.

Instead, most felt that the company should clean house and focus on a few pockets of growth inside the company — communications and shopping for example. I am betting buyers will be thinking along those lines, but will that be enough?

Whatever comes of these moves, the question is, can Yahoo be saved, and if yes, what is the value that can be retrieved? More importantly, will these private equity investors meet their own tech Waterloo in the fallen Internet star?

Dead Fish

As far as I am concerned, Yahoo is pretty far gone and is essentially a hollow shell of its former self. Its board – probably the single worst group in business – has managed to drip every last drop out of its body. There are few bright spots — Flickr, Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Shopping — but they cannot make up for the singular reality that the Internet that helped Yahoo thrive is no longer the Internet most people use.

Behavioral shifts in the Internet are so strong that Yahoo has no chance. The average U.S. Facebook user is spending over six hours a month day on the social network, Twitter is becoming the new news network and photos are thriving on mobile platforms.

The Internet of today is one of many screens. Yahoo, despite its mobile products and wonderful experiments with Yahoo TV, is still a one trick pony — online advertising. More accurately, the classic CPM-style advertising depends on large audiences, lots of page views and well, you get it, an old-fashioned way of thinking. When I think of Yahoo, I am reminded of a salmon farmed on carcinogens that is trying to move upstream in order to find growth.

Smart guys, but…

The consortium that is making a push for Yahoo is the same group that went out and bought Skype from eBay and turned around and flipped it to Microsoft, and in the process they made a lot of money.

However, this is not the same case. Skype was and still is on the right side of history. Usage behavior favors Skype, which continues to grow despite the company having ruined a great user experience. Skype is thriving despite all the meddling from the previous owners. Microsoft can’t do anything because Skype provides value.

What does Yahoo do that you and I can’t live without?

That’s right … nothing!

I have a lot of respect for Jeff Jordan (who would actually be one of my choices to run Yahoo), but I am sorry even he cannot do the impossible. Yahoo’s brain drain is legendary and it continues. There are more resumes going out of Yahoo than there are folks lining up to work for Yahoo. Unless there is a tech/broad economy collapse, that situation isn’t going to change.

Frankly, if you were a smart engineer or a product guy, why would you go work for a company, which is going to be owned by buyout guys who essentially nickel-and-dime your creativity to death? Why not go and work for a startup, where the chances of an upside, however remote they might be, are still there.

Or better yet, take a flyer and start your own company. Hell, if you need a job, these days even Google is pretty lax about hiring. The fact is that the buyout philosophy might work on old industrial-age companies, but I am not sure it would translate to Internet companies.

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I’m on the road with the StartupBus Europe trip to LeWeb. When you left us yesterday, the ‘buspreneurs’ were busy forming teams around the ideas they had pitched.

As we sped down the autobahns of north Germany, the product ideas were honed and many ideas were sketched out on paper, and even on the bus’ windows.

Following a short ferry trip to Denmark, we rolled into Copenhagen – one of Europe’s most exciting startup cities. Our host for the evening was Startup Bootcamp, where the 2011 group of startups left last week but things are far from quiet as the accelerator franchise plans for a busy 2012 around Europe.

The StartupBus Europe teams pitched their initial concepts:

LocaFoo: For iPhone and Android, this location-based game will see you picking up virtual items around you to attack and defend against your friends. Brands will be encouraged to get involved. Perhaps you could throw a Starbucks coffee or a McDonalds hamburger at your opponents.The app will have Foursquare and Facebook integration.

BUT: Will brands want their products used as weapons?

Buybone (working title): Imagine a version of eBay where you list your needs and customers bid to sell your their products. Whether the seller is down the road or on the other side of the world, this will be a safe way of buying without being ripped off, with Buybone acting as an escrow service.

BUT: Will the team have their wireframes ready by the time we get to Berlin in a few hours time?

YoBro: – This is instant mobile group audio chat for shared interests. The service links people with shared interests. Type in an interest and the app will link you with others who have entered the same text. A natural link here is to gather around Twitter trending topics. To prevent rooms getting too noisy, each will be limited in size before a new room is automatically generated.

BUT: Do people want to group audio chat with strangers? And where’s the money?

Wander: – Trips and travel are fun, and planning should be too – that’s the premise behind Wander. It will allow you to create a personal travel guide. It will be available when mobile, with timeline and map for exploring. It will emphasise spontaneity – as you explore a location, it will tell you when a point of interest you want to visit is nearby. There will be an offline mode for when you don’t have access to mobile data.

BUT: Who is the specific target market?

Invoi: – The aim here is to disrupt voicemail, by making it interactive. The team is building a service that uses voice recognition, translating voicemail to tasks and events. The user will be able to set conditions – so, for example, when certain words are said in voicemail messages, you can get the service to call someone else, make a to-do list and more.

BUT: Can the team get a working demo completed in time?

After a short sleep in a Copenhagen hostel, we’re on the road again, bound for Berlin. After a brief stop there we’ll be moving again as we head for today’s final destination of Zurich. We’ll keep you posted on the teams’ progress as we make our way towards our ultimate destination in Paris tomorrow evening.

In the meantime, you can invest virtual cash in your favourite idea on the StartupBus Stock Exchange game. You can also join us in Berlin at an event this afternoon. Click here for more details.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Making Free Money Online

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Monday, December 19, 2011

Tips about determining the most suitable carpet cleaning business for the area.

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

just what to start looking for when getting a qualified appliance repair provider Appliance Repair Chicago

Tips on hiring an appliance repair service

1. For virtually every selections involving choosing a major appliance repair business, get advice to begin numerous appliance repair companies through individuals in whose ideas a person confidence, similar to your family members and also good friends who may have had experiences inside hiring appliance repair providers before
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2. Take into account if at all a lot more cost-effective to just junk the appliance for the new just one than to own this mended by way of a specialized. Free of charge estimates can also be given by many appliance repair chicago
on the internet or higher the telephone. Like that, you won't need to have to book an actual assistance call for a technician instantly and obtain charged excessively high service fees to get a easy restore that you could even accomplish yourself. Here, it is possible to pre-judge no matter whether you must fix or exchange the actual bad kitchen appliance
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3. Yet another issue that will help to consider if you ought to retain the services of an expert appliance repair pc professional would be the standard life span of your product. Perform little investigating online to discover if your kitchen appliance might be far too aged of course, if repairing it'll just be a new squander of cash and period
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4. Using some previous types of dishwashers, units, as well as refrigerators, they will generally have an improved top quality when it comes to their own inner pieces when compared with existing low-end designs. Globalization provides resulted to having certain little elements of quite a few devices to become stated in volume in numerous places in the world; this added for the generation of inexpensive, reasonably low-quality central components. There are some good and intensely resilient old-model kitchen appliances that could be well worth solving
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5. A simple react involving unplugging and then insert rear an electric machine can sometimes clear the situation pertaining to minor electronic digital doesn't work properly on washers
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6. When you choose a expert appliance repair technical assistant ahead more than as well as carry out your mend for you, you might like to examine search engines like google pertaining to appliance repair instructions that will summarize the issue and also found widespread do-it-yourself fixes. On the internet appliance study materials are generally no cost and may supply you complete details on the best way to complete small vehicle repairs regarding specific models of equipment
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7. In case you have the particular knack correctly and choose to complete specialized residence maintenance yourself, you have to become a professional and also have on security a pair of glasses in addition to steel-toed safe practices footwear. It is also common sense to be able to unplug the applying initial before beginning unscrewing everything. Pointed perimeters are present inside of dryers so you has to be careful while working on just one
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Why you should hire a professional appliance repair service?

Using the services of a professional to accomplish a great appliance repair will keep an individual coming from totally wasting your efforts tinkering with the processes of a house equipment you don't understand. Looking to make it better alone may result to much more deterioration in your equipment. You'll find a great number of affordable appliance repair companies being publicized on the internet or for the phonebook. You can usually call the right one who is able to repair whatsoever deterioration machine maybe you have at home
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There are certain residence machine products that could be much more cost-effective to solve in comparison with to replace. Microwaves, refrigerators, freezers, cookers, dryers, stove tops, and so on. enhance our daily life; we all often possibly locate comfort by employing these individuals. Once they acquire damaged or even are amiss effectively, eliminating these right away in support of a new a single will not be in financial terms seem. There are a lot of instances wherein the deterioration is extremely moderate, in support of a number of minimal adjustments or even simple maintenance can make the product end up being as effective as brand new once again
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Experts that provide house fix companies can be obtained online or for the phonebook, and also many of them are going to come more than or speak with people on the telephone to provide free of charge estimations upon doable charges with regard to fixing a certain house kitchen appliance
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What to look for when hiring a professional appliance repair service?

Ask from family members as well as friends initial pertaining to advice. Those as their thoughts an individual rely on are normally the top supply of info regarding various other property appliance repair services they've already tried out before.

If you utilize sometimes a great on the web appliance repair forum or maybe the on the net advertising of the commercial appliance repair corporation, you then must ensure so it states that “licensed in addition to insured” to enable you to make sure you will be obtaining solutions from your expert who's been subject to a new official appliance repair training. Your company’s state licenses also need to be yet another thing you will want to be cautious about. The actual permit amount really needs to be good as well as the insurance policy has to be updated. Additionally, you will need to investigation about how long which appliance repair business has been around business as well as which places this functions; a business along with a lot of community background is usually more dependable given it should go as a result of certain programs to maintain their specialized status in the industry. Another thing not to ever forget about although seeking the appliance repair service can be set up firm is actually shown throughout main internet web directories such as yellow-colored websites, Search engines road directions, Google community, etc. It have to be listed somewhere; an exceptionally hidden just one could just be a good inexperienced start-up or a scam. You need to likewise remember that appliance repair chicago
which publicise to a great extent may impose much greater than people little neighborhood kinds that be dependent much less in advertising nevertheless large about the word-of-mouth distributed in their great restore companies.

When you've got finally picked that appliance repair business to search having, chances are you'll question pointedly in regards to the title in the technical assistant which will possibly be arranging an individual as well as rapidly consult to be able to get in touch with him or her 1st. At this point, it is recommended you request the tech how much time she or he may be repairing devices. Provide the technical assistant the details from the difficulty. Offer all of the signs and symptoms so that he or she can easily consider achievable reasons behind the applying fail to function properly. The particular technician is likely to provide some doable leads to for that kitchen appliance trouble even previous to he / she has the chance to are available above to your residence. Ultimately, request the calculate of the fix expense once you have discussed the challenge. An established technical assistant is usually inclined to provide you with a single

It’s important to remember that if you are seeking an appliance repair organization, make sure you verify their particular popularity. Find out what other earlier clients must say regarding all of them. Check out: www.aaaasc.com to learn more regarding locating an established appliance repair in Chicago or simply search by utilizing appliance repair Chicago. After you have the site, check out their particular service places to find out if they possess protection exactly where your house is situated. Then call the amount to your location and routine a scheduled appointment.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

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Friday, December 2, 2011

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