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The 25 Most Valuable Startups

15 points by breily 18y ago

run4yourlives 18y ago
Look at those stupid numbers. No bubble my ass.
carterschonwald 18y ago
Do all these companies qualify as startups? Some of the ones on this list have been around for a WHILE (eg Linden Labs)
zkinion 18y ago
There's some good companies on there, but most... are just bubble startups, especialy 90% of that contenders category. If thats the best 25, I don't even want to know whats below that...
wumi 18y ago
what exactly is the SAI definition of a startup? hasn't found a business model?
- rms 18y ago
  Yeah, seriously, I wonder how many b2b companies they ignored.
johnrob 18y ago
This is PR. I'm willing to bet that AlleyInsider's 'advisory board' has invested in many of those startups. Time to get some buyouts going...
mynameishere 18y ago
Craiglist is worth less than facebook? Uh, right. Only because it's trying hard to not monetize itself.
SwellJoe 18y ago
So, Mint is probably way undervalued and nearly all of the others are way (way way way! holy crap!) overvalued. Billions for Habbo and Linden? Seriously? 400mil for Slide? But, I got a chuckle out of Ning's valuation, given that they raised roughly the same amount about a week ago...so they literally have as much cash on hand as Alley Insider has valued them at. So, the business is worthless in their eyes. Interesting. (I think the valuation of Ning during that round of financing was wildly out of whack, but it's certainly worth something.)
- aneesh 18y ago
  Ning raised $60 million, at a pre-money of $500 million, so the post-money valuation of $560 million on Alley Insider is accurate.
  - SwellJoe 18y ago
    Ah, I stand corrected (by nearly an order of magnitude). That makes a lot more sense than the numbers I had running around in my head.
tlrobinson 18y ago
This seems to reinforce pg's latest essay, "Be Good" http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html 3 of the top 5 seem to fall into the category of companies that act like charities: Wikipedia, Craigslist, and Mozilla.
jkent 18y ago
A simple check against Photobox's revenue shows £8.1mn in 2006, as officially filed in the UK at Companies House. That's about $16mn revenue - nowhere near the $100mn quoted. Also shows Graham Hobson as CEO, now it is Stanislas Laurent, as of 11/07. Are the other 'estimates' not similarly verifiable? Where do they get their data?

15 points by breily 18y ago

run4yourlives 18y ago

Look at those stupid numbers. No bubble my ass.

carterschonwald 18y ago

Do all these companies qualify as startups? Some of the ones on this list have been around for a WHILE (eg Linden Labs)

zkinion 18y ago

There's some good companies on there, but most... are just bubble startups, especialy 90% of that contenders category. If thats the best 25, I don't even want to know whats below that...

wumi 18y ago

what exactly is the SAI definition of a startup? hasn't found a business model?

rms 18y ago
Yeah, seriously, I wonder how many b2b companies they ignored.

johnrob 18y ago

This is PR. I'm willing to bet that AlleyInsider's 'advisory board' has invested in many of those startups. Time to get some buyouts going...

mynameishere 18y ago

Craiglist is worth less than facebook? Uh, right. Only because it's trying hard to not monetize itself.

SwellJoe 18y ago

So, Mint is probably way undervalued and nearly all of the others are way (way way way! holy crap!) overvalued. Billions for Habbo and Linden? Seriously? 400mil for Slide? But, I got a chuckle out of Ning's valuation, given that they raised roughly the same amount about a week ago...so they literally have as much cash on hand as Alley Insider has valued them at. So, the business is worthless in their eyes. Interesting. (I think the valuation of Ning during that round of financing was wildly out of whack, but it's certainly worth something.)

aneesh 18y ago
Ning raised $60 million, at a pre-money of $500 million, so the post-money valuation of $560 million on Alley Insider is accurate.
- SwellJoe 18y ago
  Ah, I stand corrected (by nearly an order of magnitude). That makes a lot more sense than the numbers I had running around in my head.

tlrobinson 18y ago

This seems to reinforce pg's latest essay, "Be Good" http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html 3 of the top 5 seem to fall into the category of companies that act like charities: Wikipedia, Craigslist, and Mozilla.

jkent 18y ago

A simple check against Photobox's revenue shows £8.1mn in 2006, as officially filed in the UK at Companies House. That's about $16mn revenue - nowhere near the $100mn quoted. Also shows Graham Hobson as CEO, now it is Stanislas Laurent, as of 11/07. Are the other 'estimates' not similarly verifiable? Where do they get their data?