http://paidcontent.org/2006/12/19/si-continues-interest-in-social-networks-25-million-on-40-percent-of-start/ The economics of digital content Sat, 25 May 2013 17:24:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2006/12/19/si-continues-interest-in-social-networks-25-million-on-40-percent-of-start/#comment-46535 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:17:46 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2006/12/19/si-continues-interest-in-social-networks-25-million-on-40-percent-of-start/#comment-46535 You guys should check out Beat the Book, a new social network for people interested in sports and sports betting.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2006/12/19/si-continues-interest-in-social-networks-25-million-on-40-percent-of-start/#comment-46534 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:41:34 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2006/12/19/si-continues-interest-in-social-networks-25-million-on-40-percent-of-start/#comment-46534 August 20, 2008– Fanzak.com has relaunched their sports social networking site, http://www.fanzak.com.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2006/12/19/si-continues-interest-in-social-networks-25-million-on-40-percent-of-start/#comment-46533 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:45:09 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2006/12/19/si-continues-interest-in-social-networks-25-million-on-40-percent-of-start/#comment-46533 Why don't they look at ubersportz.com, it is captures the large australian sporting market, has 55 active users and I would sell it for a fraction of $25 million

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2006/12/19/si-continues-interest-in-social-networks-25-million-on-40-percent-of-start/#comment-46532 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:54:09 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2006/12/19/si-continues-interest-in-social-networks-25-million-on-40-percent-of-start/#comment-46532 This would be another dumb move in the Bubble 2.0 space. FanNation has less than 2,000 users and it appears that only a core of them are really using the service since it launched months ago. For a startup with $1 million in seed funding that type of growth is not impressive. It's actually quite atrocious. I would also hesitate to call this a social network. I see more aggregation of content than I do strong social features. In almost all other acquisitions and investments, the buyer or investor is paying for the audience, not the technology. In this case there is no audience. If Time Warner can't duplicate this technology for under $25 million then they have even bigger problems than we thought.

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