I had read last year that VCs were having a hard time finding enough companies to invest in, and now Business 2.0 blogger Erick Schonfeld points to a New York Times article about Sevin Rosen Funds actually returning hundreds of millions in investor funds because they couldn’t find any worthwhile investments.
Smells like opportunity.
Zookoda, an email marketing app for bloggers, has been put up for sale by its owners. In their own words:
Zookoda has been a great success since its launch on 13th March 2006. Over 5200 blog publishers have adopted Zookoda as their blog marketing tool of choice with a total circulation in excess of 1.2 million. www.zookoda.com is ranked in the Top 1% of URLs across the net (according to www.alexa.com) and has a rolling 3 month average ranking of around 15,000. According to www.technorati.com there have been over 700 articles written about Zookoda.
If you’re interested in bidding, head over to http://sale.zookoda.com/
If you haven’t already, please take a look at the tributes to the 2,996 who were killed five years ago today on September 11. A huge thanks to all those who put so much work into creating this worldwide memorial.
Found out through Shoemoney’s post this morning that there’s now an online petition to urge Commission Junction to drop their network-wide move to JavaScript links exclusively. If you know what I’m talking about and want to sign the petition, or if you just want more information, Scott Jangro gives full information at the top of the petition.
Spurred by the recent job announcement on the AdSense blog, Jenstar has posted an aggregated list of job openings at several of the large contextual advertising companies.
David over at Stylegala announced Tuesday that he has put the site up for sale. The starting price is $30,000, and he’s selling it via auction on SitePoint.
$30,000 seems very reasonable for a site with over 4 million monthly page views and 900,000 visitors, but this is one case where the buyer better be very aware of what he’s getting into. I know from having bought Unmatched Style that it’s going to take a special person to replace David. It has to be someone with real passion for CSS design and development. You can’t fake it.
It’s an outstanding opportunity, but definitely one to be taken very seriously.
Update: The bid is up to $40,000 now, and the auction is slated to last until June 15 or until they “the right buyer at the right price.”
WebGuerrilla has moved into new office space and is looking to hire for several positions:
Get all the details at http://general.webguerrilla.com/jobs/.
Great post over on the Redeye VC blog about businesses who become successful by shrinking a market. No idea what that means? Me neither until I read Josh’s post. Read for yourself »
Just got an email from Jeremy that the auction of BlogExplosion has now begun. (He’s announcing it on his blog as well.) It’s not too late to get in on the action if you’re interested. I helped him put together the buyer’s packet, and it’s a very compelling read. If you’re looking for a single site to buy and run long-term, this could be it.
Contact Jeremy for more info.
Eric Giguere has a great tip today over on his Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
Can’t think of anything to write about? Does the thought of writing an article make you queasy? Then the Question and Answer (Q&A) site is a great way to easily write good content. … A Q&A site is all about breadth of information. Each page on the Q&A site consists of a question and an answer to that question.
