Archive for the 'Business.com' Category

The following is a perpetual-work-in-progress.  Once you start to compile a list of mergers and acquisitions, you realize why it’s nearly impossible to have a complete list.  We are quite confident that the following is a very good, comprehensive list of the largest, more notable deals… but it is not - and no list will […]

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Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Jan 9th

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Paid Content reports that RH Donnelly bid the highest for Business.com, going all the way up to $345M for the company that started off with a $7.5M purchase of a URL and a subsequent $10M funding round.
RHD, a publicly traded firm, did $1.895B in 2006 revenues, but only 2% of that (according to PaidContent) - […]

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Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Jul 26th

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Last week I wrote: Ask.com should stop spending $100M per year in ads and buy up new search companies, then once bloggers began to increasingly criticize its ad strategy (and thus put the company in the spotlight), I asked maybe I owed them an apology, after all, it encourages folks like yours truly and many others online […]

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Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Jun 24th

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This morning I woke up and got a bad feeling that we were back in crazy times.  The WSJ ran a story about how Business.com was about to get the last laugh in a sale of the company for $300-400M.  Insanity, I thought.  After all, insanity means doing the same thing but expecting a different […]

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Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Jun 22nd

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