Twitter, operating at a loss since years.

Twitter, operating at a loss since years, since it was founded.
Full 2013 year revenue of USD 665 million, up 110% year-over-year.
Full 2013 year net loss of USD 645 million and non-GAAP net loss of USD34 million.
Accumulated deficit (loss) of USD 994.6 million!!!
See 2013 fiscal year report!

"A social network / instant messaging blog based solely on a 140 characters lenght messages, for me, is now ending 2013, really obsolete, because you can read Google Plus and Facebook posts on real time using mobile devices like smartphones and tablets." I said last year


Please read also: Some articles about Rocket Internet GmbH. and Affinitas GmbH.
How many of those cloned companies are really profitable?
What will happen if they can not sell them to others? Zalando planning its IPO like Twitter last year ?

Stupid investor series: today, Tagged

TechCrunch says Social Network Tagged have just raised USD15Million.

Tagged, a social network for meeting new people (a.k.a. social discovering == online dating) ,  will be a "stupid investors case of study" for several venture funds.

People do not pay for social discovering, for finding new friends, they will pay only for high effective compatibility matching.
Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient.

Facebook, in the same road as Enron.

Do you remember the Enron case?

Well, I think Facebook is in the same road. It will be a stupid shareholders' series case of study, instead of stupid investors' series case of study.


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).