Someone called me a tech millionaire, and I got all snippy, but then I realized that I have no idea how to value Pinboard. Do I just, like, multiply earnings by something? Is it the craigslist value of the servers? How do you value a tiny tech business?
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I used to post detailed financials to encourage other people who wanted to run a small project, but in recent years this advice grew untenable given the amount of investment money sloshing around my industry. You can't tell people to seek a steady income when there is free money
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would you sell it for $500k?
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I see it as a source of income, so the sale price would have to be whatever principal was enough to generate that income in perpetuity
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you get a pretty big number if you do it on the same terms as resulted in the top valuation of your vanquished competitors. It is only fair.
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with good but not insane growth you could look at this potentially as 4-5x revenue (though there are many other valuation systems, some of them less flattering) so it's somewhat plausible! close, though
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And how many hours a month/year do you put into it?
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When do you plan to buy Twitter?
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If you didn’t run things somebody else would need to do so, and they would need to be paid. So how many hours/week do you need to work to keep it running (and evolve it reasonably)?
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if you made the (very tenuous) assumption that the 152k in gross cash flow was equivalent to an annuity payment, and use the average return of the stock market as the interest rate (opportunity cost assumption), i might say $1.9Mpic.twitter.com/NlIzJrHTuT
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speed the day
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