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The Wit and Wisdom of Sheryl Sandberg: 10 Insights from IGNITION

Tom Johansmeyer — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:45:03 +0000

The Business Insider IGNITION conference just wrapped up this week. The height of the event, of course, came on the second morning, at 9 am, when Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, was interviewed by Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget. Here’s are the high points:

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What You Need to Know About the Seven Hottest Social Media IPOs

Tom Johansmeyer — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:00:10 +0000

The IPO market ground almost to a halt in the middle of August, but that doesn’t seem to have hit anyone’s lust for a celebratory opening bell. Even with a record number of canceled or delayed IPOs, we’re seeing a record number of companies filing. Among them, of course, are a handful of social media companies that people have been watching for a while, waiting for the big days.

There’s plenty of speculation out in the marketplace right now. Let’s take a look at where the seven hottest pre-IPO social media companies currently stand:

1. Facebook: that’s the one everybody cares about, right? And by everybody, I include the folks at Zynga, who have IPO ambitions of their own. Well, here’s the deal: nobody seems to know when Facebook is going public (except maybe Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and a handful of others). In April, however, the social media giant is going to have to file with the SEC because it has more than 500 shareholders. When they are forced to open the kimono, an IPO is expected to follow. That could come in September 2012.

2. Groupon: can you believe these guys are still pushing forward? After several amendments to the SEC documents they filed with the SEC, because CEO Andrew Mason apparently loves to see his own words in the press, several senior-level employees have departed the company. Nonetheless, Groupon remains committed to going public.

3. TripAdvisor: this customer review site for the travel sector filed earlier this year and hasn’t said anything about altering its plans. So, there’s a chance Expedia will still spin it off this year. Of course, there are signs of trouble nearby: Kayak, which also plays in the online travel space, recently revealed that it’s deferring its IPO.

4. Glam Media: could this online advertising platform take the plunge? It’s still in the rumor stage right now, but the company has hired a CFO who has gone the distance before. That’s usually a good sign that the idea of going public is being bandied about internally.

5. Zynga: there are so many reasons for Zynga not to go public, but the company hasn’t pulled back from its filing. In fact, it issued an amended one last week, which left accountants wondering how to depreciate virtual assets. The consensus is that Zynga is a fairly strong company, and its brand will help with an IPO even in a volatile market.

6. LivingSocial: While Groupon is gung ho to go public, its competitor is showing more caution. The latest development may be to accept another round of venture capital money (amounting to $200 million), in lieu of a near-term IPO.

7. Twitter: you’re going to have to wait for this one. The earliest Twitter would go public, according to the rumors going around, is sometime in 2013. This might be smart. Twitter has some work to do developing revenue streams, making smart acquisitions and building out its platform with new features that have been owned so far by its application ecosystem. But, if Twitter can’t pull all this off, it will have missed an opportunity to cash out when expectations were lower.

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Why did Facebook push back its IPO?

Tom Johansmeyer — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:11:54 +0000

It didn’t take long for the news to spread across the internet: Facebook isn’t going public as soon as the world expected. The white-hot social media company, which could be worth close to $90 billion (depending on who you ask), was originally expected to file its IPO paperwork with the SEC in the fourth quarter of 2011 and make the big move by April 2012.

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The Winklevoss Twins Take Another Shot At Zuckerberg…In A Pistachio Ad?

Megan O'Neill — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:08:52 +0000

The latest viral ad for Wonderful Pistachios stars the Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, and they’re not just promoting pistachios—they’re also taking a not-so-subtle jab at Mark Zuckerberg.
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Five Reasons a $100 billion Facebook Valuation is Nuts

Tom Johansmeyer — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:51:07 +0000

Facebook is inching closer to an initial public offering. Today, AllFacebook notes a speculative CNBC report that pegs the social network’s valuation, in the event of an IPO, at around $100 billion. It could even go higher. The SEC filing could come as early as October, and Facebook will have to disclose its financials by April of next year whether it goes public or not. All this means that it’s time to put some very serious thought into how much Facebook is really worth.

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Who Cares Who Owns Facebook?

Kenna McHugh — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:45:10 +0000

If the movie The Social Network didn’t fill your need of Facebook tales and folklore, then I recommend that you visit Who Owns Facebook?
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Are Facebook & Netflix Set To Join Forces In The Social Game?

Megan O'Neill — Tue, 31 May 2011 12:39:22 +0000

Netflix and Facebook are both leaders in their own arenas—Facebook in social networking and Netflix in Internet streaming. But rumor has it that the two companies may be joining forces to cross-promote and improve the social aspects of each of their platforms. Could Facebook and Netflix be helping one another to dominate the web?
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The Laughable Facebook Lawsuit Has Suddenly Become an Armani Tuxedo

Richard Howard — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:30:38 +0000

Oh, ‘The Social Network’. What a great film. I bet the studio wishes it could do a sequel to that bad boy – I know all of us moviegoers do. Well, while that doesn’t look anymore likely than it did before, there may be fodder for a prequel emerging. On June 30, 2010, disgraced businessman and convicted felon Paul Ceglia filed a lawsuit against Facebook and Mark Zuckerman claiming, in short, to own 84% of Facebook. After the world had a good chuckle, the case was all but forgotten. Well, he’s back with a new legal team and new evidence. And while the evidence is far from conclusive, nobody’s laughing anymore.

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Does Mark Zuckerberg Want to Be a Tunisian Hero?

Katie Kindelan — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:50:36 +0000

“No. 1 hero in Tunisia” is probably not a status update Mark Zuckerberg ever thought would appear on his Facebook wall. Yet that is exactly what Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) has anointed the CEO and co-founder of Facebook after a visit to Tunisia this month. Is ‘No. 1 hero’ in a protest-torn country really a status a CEO like Zuckerberg wants?

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Obama to Participate in Facebook Live Town-Hall Meeting

David Cohen — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:11:28 +0000

President Barack Obama will participate in an intimate, cozy town-hall meeting, with a small group of more than 500 million potential attendees — a special Facebook Live gathering Wednesday, April 20, at 4:45 p.m. ET/1:45 p.m. PT.

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Will 4chan Be A Game Changer in Online Privacy Debate?

Katie Kindelan — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:40:07 +0000

It’s not too surprising that 4chan founder Christopher Poole and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg don’t see see eye to eye on the subject of online identity. But now that Poole has called Zuckerberg “totally wrong” on the issue, and set forth his own vision for Web-based community, could 4chan be a game changer in the online privacy debate?

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Toronto Woman Petitions Facebook to Blackout for Earth Hour — Is It Bad For Business?

Amanda Cosco — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:40:35 +0000

Now that Mark Zukerberg is the official god of the online world, he must decide whether he’s going to be a benevolent or indifferent god.

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Edward Zuckerberg — The "Father of Facebook" — Uses Paper Pitch for Teeth Cleaning

Tom Johansmeyer — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:55:14 +0000

Could this be any crazier? You’d think Edward J. Zuckerberg, dad to Facebook founder Mark, would use his son’s accomplishments differently to generate new business. Ol’ man Zuck, a dentist in Dobbs Ferry, a New York City suburb, isn’t using the lad’s social media platform to bring new patients in for cleanings and root canals. Rather, he’s taking a content-based approach … on print.

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Israeli Couple Invites Mark Zuckerberg To Their Wedding [Video]

Megan O'Neill — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:53:21 +0000

Hey Mark Zuckerberg! Nimrod Fridberg and Shikma Sharon are getting married this March in Tel Aviv and they want YOU to be at their wedding! The Israeli couple met on Facebook, and told their friends and family about the marriage proposal through Facebook so they think it’s only fitting to invite their matchmaker. After all, if Zuckerberg had not created Facebook the couple never would have met.
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New Media Index: Bloggers Slice Into Tax-Cut Accord; WikiLeaks Dominates Twitter

David Cohen — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:36:16 +0000

Bloggers shared the most news links about the deal between President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress on tax cuts, while the WikiLeaks saga accounted for the most Tweeted news links, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was an interview with Thomas Gottschalk, host of German game show Wetten Dass (Bet It), after 23-year-old contestant Samuel Koch attempted to jump a car using spring-loaded stilts known as “kangaroo shoes” and suffered major injuries, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Dec. 6-10.

The tax cut represented 15 percent of news links shared via the blogosphere, and it was followed by: an editorial in The Washington Post criticizing movie Fair Game, at 13 percent; Pope Benedict XVI agreeing to use a solar-powered popemobile, at 12 percent; and at 10 percent apiece, WikiLeaks and a BBC article about conservationists in China successfully mating giant pandas which could allow them to be reintroduced into the wild.

“Cablegate” made up 33 percent of Tweeted news links, and it was followed by: Twitter at 19 percent; Google at 12 percent; Apple at 8 percent; and Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg agreeing to join the “giving pledge” created by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to donate most of his wealth to charity, at 7 percent.

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