Facebook
With regard to Facebook’s IPO, the article discusses Zuckerberg’s penchant for “delayed gratification”, which he says he has a special capacity for.
Revenues for 2010 could hit between $1.2 to $2 billion...!! by PED Mar 18
Bonus: See Mark Pincus's presentation from the Web 2.0 Summit →
Zynga
Zynga, $250 million revenues and 60% EBITDA margins by PED Mar 18
Farmville is popular because in entangles users in a web of social obligations.
CHART OF THE DAY: Farmville-Maker Zynga's Revenues Reach $600 Mi
Twitter
Generating More Income Earlier this year, Twitter also announced that it plans to create a revenue-sharing scheme that would allows Twitter to share in the profits generated by third-party applications and vice versa.
25M$ revenues in 2009 with search deals, and the real business model is yet to come... by PED Mar 18
Yelp
Yelp was founded in 2004 as a way to let users leave reviews on local businesses. Comscore puts worldwide traffic at nearly 9 million monthly unique visitors, and it has been growing fast – the company says it’s real numbers are more like 25 million monthly uniques. Yelp has whispered that 2009 revenues will be around $30 million and are expecting $50 million or so in 2010.
Yelp has whispered that 2009 revenues will be around $30 million and are expecting $50 million or so in 2010 by PED Mar 18
LinkedIn
To manage this growth, LinkedIn has also been expanding its operations in international markets, opening offices in The Netherlands, and India, two areas where LinkedIn is growing rapidly. Coincidentally, the 60 millionth member hailed from The Netherlands.
$110M revenues according to Business Insider by PED Mar 19
Not figures of revenues or profit ? by wallen Mar 19
The company was valued at around $1 billion in its last round of financing in 2008, and has been profitable for the past years by PED Mar 18
The company has raised a ton of capital and has bought a lot of domains since its launch in 2006, eHow and Pluck.com being the most well known. It applies social-networking platforms to the sites it buys then generates a lot of content from users, curating a final "pro-am" offering.
Demand media
Estimates point to $250 million in 2009 revenue by PED Mar 18
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Habbo
$110 million in revenue in 2009 by PED Mar 18
Etsy
About The List Last year, we created the SAI 25 , in which we valued and ranked some of the world’s leading private digital companies. Rounding out the top five: Wikipedia , which we think could be worth $5 billion if it tried to make money; Betfair , the online gambling site; NewEgg , the e-commerce site that recently filed to go public; and Craigslist , which we think could be worth $3 billion if it tried to generate revenue in earnest.
$12 million in net revenue in 2009 by PED Mar 18
