Facebook phenomenon

How did Facebook manage to gain traction and get a $100 million valuation? Watch the interview with the 21-year-old founder who started the company in his college dorm last year.

Watch interview with founder Zuckerberg on starting his company

Also read Net Sense on MarketWatch

Comments

[mindingmywindow]

How was its revenue stream determined? What comprises it's profit-seeking operations? Which ib valued this company?

Great site.

[Mark Sigal]

Very much related to this topic is a post I recently wrote called, "Traversing contexts and Facebook," which provides some raw numbers pertaining to Facebook's growth (from their presentation at Stanford's ETL program), and what I think is their unfair advantage. Here is the URL:

http://thenetworkgarden.blogs.com/weblog/2005/10/traversing_cont.html

Cheers,

Mark

[Just Wondering]

These 'media' properites still seem pretty raw to justify these valuations. How valuable are these free dating sites if they can be spun up overnite? What happens to MySpace's audience when they grow older, stop needing dates or cut down on their music consumption?

[Dimitar Vesselinov]

Mark Zuckerberg at the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Program

http://edcorner.stanford.edu/podcasting.shtml
http://divedi.blogspot.com/2005/11/audio-of-day-entrepreneurial-thought.html