Axiom 5: Company X's only chance of monetization is
by IPO or acquisition by Company Y.
If Company X is acquired by Company Y,
goto Axiom 1 through 5 for Company Y.
Independence is also important, when it comes to privacy.
I don't know how Tumblr is doing - it seems like it's under some pressure to do a better job of monetization - but there's been this idea of a bubble in social media for years, and it we are beginning realize that in some way we were right. It's just that we didn't consider that companies would pursue the sinister solutions to their fiscal quandaries.
Makes you wonder how this makes the investors look.
I don't know how Tumblr is doing - it seems like it's under some pressure to do a better job of monetization - but there's been this idea of a bubble in social media for years, and it we are beginning realize that in some way we were right. It's just that we didn't consider that companies would pursue the sinister solutions to their fiscal quandaries.
Makes you wonder how this makes the investors look.