Simon’s Blog

Techcrunch is reporting that the photo sharing company Photobucket is to be acquired by News Corp company MySpace. At the end of March, I wrote a blog on how to value photo widget / photo sharing companies. I predicted then that anyone who wanted to acquire Photobucket would have to pay significantly more [...]

Photo sharing, and photo widget, companies are a fascinating category of business… but how do you go about valuing them? These businesses have potentially huge user bases, but the services they offer are mostly free. So revenues that come directly from users are pretty low. Instead the lion’s share of revenues from [...]