Silicon Valley’s big unicorn: Snapchat

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/unicorns-are-starting-to-fade-vator.html
http://vator.tv/news/2015-08-19-leaked-snapchat-docs-show-company-bleeding-money-in-2014
Holy smokes: Snapchat just raised an incredible USD1.8 Billion!
Leaked documents also show Snapchat with USD33 Million in revenue in Q4, and 110 Million Daily Active Users
http://vator.tv/news/2016-05-26-holy-smokes-snapchat-just-raised-an-incredible-18b


There is a large dotcom bubble fueled by venture investment funds, investors who are dragging other investors to continue investing until they can sell shares of the company and recover leveraged money, but the last holder of shares is going to lose.
Many technology companies, without having a concrete business model (supposedly will generate revenue from advertising and premium subscription accounts) receive millions of dollars in funding to offer something free, acquiring fastly a large mass of captive users as if they had made them addicts, and then, the exit strategy (for investors) is to get someone to buy the company at a staggering figure, as did Blogger, Fotolog, MySpace, YouTube, Skype, Bebo and others. They are like continually inflating balloons and they need to find a buyer before they explode. If they can not find a private buyer for the entire company, the investors had the strategy of going public, to start trading its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, they turn those pieces of paper (shares) in real money, they get thousands of buyers purchasing lower small parts (shares).

Unicorns are starting to fade (Vator article)

http://vator.tv/news/2015-11-25-this-year-im-thankful-that-unicorns-are-starting-to-fade


Silicon Valley’s boom? Silicon Valley’s bubble instead!
There is a large dotcom bubble fueled by venture investment funds, investors who are dragging other investors to continue investing until they can sell shares of the company and recover leveraged money, but the last holder of shares is going to lose

Vator article: The balloon deflates as investor devalues Snapchat by 25%
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/vator-article-balloon-deflates-as.html

Vator article: The balloon deflates as investor devalues Snapchat by 25%

Is the era of the sky high valuation coming to an end?
http://vator.tv/news/2015-11-10-the-balloon-deflates-as-investor-devalues-snapchat-by-25

FT article: Silicon Valley’s boom will leave some investors behind
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/ft-article-silicon-valleys-boom-will.html

article at Vator "The private tech bubble is real, but does it matter?"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/article-at-vator-private-tech-bubble-is.html

Silicon Valley’s boom? Silicon Valley’s bubble instead!
There is a large dotcom bubble fueled by venture investment funds, investors who are dragging other investors to continue investing until they can sell shares of the company and recover leveraged money, but the last holder of shares is going to lose. 

Please see:
Snapchat, raising another round at a USD16-USD19 billion valuation ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/snapchat-raising-another-round-at-usd16.html
also Snapchat raised a USD200M round from Alibaba
http://vator.tv/news/2015-03-12-snapchat-reportedly-raises-200m-round-from-alibaba

article: The epic rise and fall of Fab is finally complete
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/article-epic-rise-and-fall-of-fab-is.html 

FT article "Dotcom history is not yet repeating itself, but it is starting to rhyme"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/ft-article-dotcom-history-is-not-yet.html   
 
This Tech Bubble is Worse Than the Tech Bubble of 2000
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/article-at-vator-private-tech-bubble-is.html

FT article: Silicon Valley’s boom will leave some investors behind

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2d205466-83d8-11e5-8e80-1574112844fd.html


Silicon Valley’s boom? Silicon Valley’s bubble instead!
There is a large dotcom bubble fueled by venture investment funds, investors who are dragging other investors to continue investing until they can sell shares of the company and recover leveraged money, but the last holder of shares is going to lose.

This Tech Bubble is Worse Than the Tech Bubble of 2000
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/article-at-vator-private-tech-bubble-is.html

Tech bubble, LinkedIn IPO

We are facing a large dotcom bubble fueled by venture risk investment funds, with 4 representing companies: Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Groupon (investors who are dragging other investors to continue investing until they can sell shares of the company and recover leveraged money, but the last holder of shares is going to lose).

Many technology companies, without having a concrete business model (supposedly will generate revenue from advertising and premium subscription accounts) receive millions of dollars in funding to offer something free, acquiring fastly a large mass of captive users as if they had made them addicts, and then the exit strategy (for investors) is to get someone to buy the company at a staggering figure, as did Blogger, Fotolog, MySpace, YouTube, Skype, Bebo and others. They are like continually inflating balloons and they need to find a buyer before they explode. Recently Skype (a kite) was privately sold to Microsoft at USD 8,500 million. Skype was first sold to eBay in 2009 which resold to a private group of investors.

In 2003, 3 friends come together to create each one his social Web site, Reid Hoffman created LinkedIn, Tribe created by Mark Pinkus (then he created Zynga) and Jonathan Abrams created Friendster. Tribe and Friendster were commercial failures, while LinkedIn could never got a private buyer. To sell the shares and turn those pieces of paper in real money, LinkedIn had the strategy of going public, to start trading its shares on the New York Stock Exchange. If LinkedIn could not find a buyer, it will get thousands of buyers purchasing lower small parts (shares).