by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Red Herring interviewed me about the deal, which got picked up when Paid Content weighed in on the Various (parent company of FriendFinder) acquisition of Spring Street Networks. Remember when SSN raised 6 million dollars from Battery Ventures? Great historical look...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
More rumors that True has been trying to sell itself to Yahoo and that Yahoo has turned them down. The rumors that True has lost a lot of money to date aren’t difficult to imagine based on projected paying customers numbers, advertising spend and burn rate....
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Word on the street is the SpringStreet was acquired by Friendfinder. More details to come soon. I’m guesstimating the asking price was $2-3M. It would be surprising if they paid any more than that. SpringStreet does not command the premium pricing of other...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Bill Burnham blogs about how well VC’s did in the Intermix deal. Starting with how Intermix went from a delisted stock to the # 1 social networking site in two years, Burnham goes on to detail the deals put together by Redpoint and Vantagepoint. Rafat...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Staci Kramer at Paid Content interviews Fox Interactive President Ross Levinsohn about the Intermix acquisition. Lot’s of great details here. Fox will nearly double its traffic by adding 27 million-plus unique users for roughly $21.48 a piece. The deals comes...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
CGI Holding Corp. announced that is has acquired Real Estate School Online for $4.4M. Originally mentioned in April, from the news we can deduct that Vintacom was purchased for approximately $5.5M. Tip of the calculator to Markus for this one. [tags: cgi,...